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LIVE – TALK by Markus Zohner: Lecture about a 9 Months Walk from Venice to St. Petersburg, Locarno April 2014

On April 10th, 2014 in the Hotel Belvedere in Locarno, Theatre Director and Author Markus Zohner presented an illustrated Lecture. He gave a talk about his 9-month, 12-country 4,000 Km Walk from Venice to St. Petersburg along the Ancient Amber Way, about which he has written a book.

Mr. Zohner heads an independent Arts and Theatre Company which develops and performs artistic projects internationally in Theatre, Photography, Radio, Video and Film, receiving awards from many countries around the world.

Markus Zohner, for nine months has walked on foot from Venice / Italy to St. Petersburg / Russia – a 12-country 4,000 Km Walk along the Ancient Amber Way, about which he has written a book, edited by FIZZO Photo Book Film in German („Die Wiederentdeckung der Bernsteinstrasse“) and in Italian (“La riscoperta dell’antica Via dell’Ambra”).

Further information: http://zohner.ch/release/markus-zohner-the-re-discovery-of-the-ancient-amber-way/

A huge Photographic Exhibition with over 120 pictures has been devised, which has been presented in Austria, Italy, Hungary and lately in Bellinzona / Ticino, at Sasso Corbaro Castle.

His walk lead him through Italy, Slovenia, Hungary, Austria, Czech Republic, Slovacchia, Poland, Kaliningrad, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Russia. 

Mr. Zohner heads an independent Arts and Theatre Company which develops and performs artistic projects internationally in Theatre, Photography, Radio, Video and Film, receiving awards from many countries around the world.


Live-Talk: THE RE-DISCOVERY OF THE ANCIENT AMBER WAY - FROM VENICE TO ST. PETERSBURG

This is a very rare interview with the potter Usch Spettigue.
She is creating artistic work in Suffolk, England, for over fourty years.
Here Usch speaks with Markus Zohner and tells about her life, inspiration, about the development of her technique and about her approach to pottery, about the procedures she has developed and about her views on her craft.
The interview has been recorded on August 26th and 27th 2014, in Aldeburgh and in Felixstowe, England, both times at the seashore, with strong winds and with spectacular waves.

http://spettigue.com


Usch Spettigue:
CONCENTRATING ON PURE FORM, RESEARCHING FOR NEW COLOUR

Colourful and sculptural, her new porcelain pots are designed as one-off artefacts which retain their basic function. The jugs, while suggesting natural forms, have a variety of distinctive handles - ensuring that each one is an individual.
Usch Spettigue was born in Germany and settled in England in 1963 with her English husband. She started making hand-built pottery while studying languages in Munich and went back to the craft full-time in 1973.

She established her own studio at Harkstead in 1975.

Since then she has exhibited widely in East Anglia, as well as in London, the West Country, York, the United States and Germany.

Her pots are all thrown. They are porcelain, single-fired at 1220° C in an electric kiln. Some of her pots are decorated with sgraffito, inlay or wax resist.
Creative use of slips and glazes on different clays vary texture and colour.
At present she is also concentrating on pure form with a variety of large jugs and spherical pots with inturned tops. Some of these pots are carved when they are in a leather-hard state to give a deeply grooved surface.

She is a selected member of the Anglian Potters Association and of the Suffolk Craft Society.

Usch Spettigue, Potter | Interview Radio Petruska, Markus Zohner Arts Company

Markus Zohner Arts Company is based in Lugano / Switzerland. The company produces Theatre Performances, Arts Projects, Podcast- and Radio Shows, offers trainings in Theatre, Creativity and Comunication, realizes Exhibitions and tours around the world.

La Markus Zohner Arts Company ha sede a Lugano / Svizzera. La Compagnia produce spettacoli teatrali, progetti artistici, podcast, offre masterclasses per teatranti, realizza esposizioni, mostre fotografiche e multimediali e con le sue produzioni teatrali viaggia in tutto il mondo. 

Die Markus Zohner Arts Company hat ihren Sitz in Lugano / Schweiz. Die Truppe produziert Theaterstücke, Kunstprojekte, Podcasts und Radiosendungen, sie bietet Fortbildung für Theaterschaffende und für anders Berufsgruppen an und realisiert Ausstellungen und Gastspielreisen.

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