ZONA 4 TIMISOARAROMANIA
Performance durational: 16.30 - 19.30 [dusk/twilight]
5th October
Site:
Timisora, Piata Liberati [Liberation Square]

"Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become thedirect organisation of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question ofproducing ourselves, not things that enslave us."- Guy Debord, Internationale Situationiste, no. 1 [Paris, June 1958]

'Vrem malai si pe Regele Mihai''We want bread and Michael'- Romanian graffitti [Dec. 1989]

17th Dec.1989
Reuter. Romanian police broke up a demonstration on Sunday by tens of thousands of ethnic Hungarians protesting against the eviction of a Protestant priest in Transylvania.

19th Dec. 1989
The doctor, who spoke on condition of anonimity, said suddenly an armoured vehicle drove into the crowd...I saw a woman of about 40 driven over and crushed.

19th Dec. 1989
The Independent. Dozens, perhaps hundreds of people have been killed in the Western Romaian town of Timisoara, after security forces intervened on Sunday with tanks and firearms against demonstrators who are attempting to protect ethnic Hungarian pastor, Lazlo Tokes., from eviction by the authorities.

UPI Visitors to Western Romania have emerged with tales of a Tiannanmen square-style massacre of democracy activists, describing morges filled with bodies, tanks patrolling streets and citizens seizing guns to fire on soldiers in the town of Timisora.