Archive - ALTER-NATIVE 27
Fine Arts Creative
Youth Camp Irsai
Zsolt – Paintings of the Last 25 Years
Wednesday, 6 November – Venue: Bernady House (Horea str., 6)
Each year since 1995, we have organised the
International Fine Arts Creative Youth Camp at Sovata, where high-school
students attending fine arts everywhere can bolster their knowledge under the
guidance of prominent Transylvanian artists. During the first seven years, the
artistic coordinator of the camp was graphic artist Zrínyi Zsuzsa, and from 2003 until
his passing in 2010, the artist Irsai Zsolt. As a tribute to him, the camp has borne his
name since 2011. Beginning with the year 2012, participants have been working
under the guidance of Csizmadia Imola, stage designer. The paintings that can
be seen at the exhibition are the finest of the last 25 years.
DUET(T)
Wednesday, 6 November – Venues: B5 Studio, Minitremu Hall,
the Orthodox Synagogue, K’arte Room
20 years after the ARTeast Foundation, the Duet(t) programme endeavours to reprise
an older project made under the same name in 2003. It comprised, at the time, an
exchange of experience between several Hungarian and Romanian curators which
reviewed the then-contemporary art scenes in Romania and Hungary, in order that
after a final selection made in Bucharest and Budapest, respectively, they
would propose a series of exhibitions. In its renewed formula, Duet(t) (2019) is meant to be a symbolic
continuation of the 2003 project as well as an interdisciplinary,
intergenerational and interethnic dialogue between the above-mentioned duets.
The 4 locations used as exhibition spaces are B5
Studio, Minitremu Hall, the Orthodox Synagogue, and the K’arte Room. The
exhibitions will travel to the Magma Gallery in Sfântu Gheorghe, as well as the
Liget Gallery in Budapest in 2020.
Agamemnon’s Dog
Reading performance
by: Róbert Csaba Szabó, directed by: Patkó Éva
cast: Tibor Pálffy, Gedeon András,
Balázs Varga, Klára Tompa, Katalin Berekméri, Előd Jancsó, Viktória Renczés
Alexis Nevraki, the wealthy citizen of Mycenae
and the guardian of the fire that is supposed to signal the fall of Troy is
accused of being blind. While, in the darkness that has fallen on him, he risks
everything to prove the opposite, he learns to truly see. However, the sight of the truth – the spectre of war
stretching over all ages – is unbearable for him and makes him realize that his
unconditional devotion was a wasted and crooked virtue. The drama – which
develops the one-page role of the Guard from Aeschylusț tragedy, Agamemnon, into an individual story –
shows us how blind faith will eventually destroy its own idol.
FARÍDA
Dance theatre performance
Director and choreographer: Macaveiu Blanka
Cast:
Szabó Franciska, Pop George, Deák Orsolya, Ruszuly Ervin, Márton Emese, Colceriu
Carmen, Demény Orsolya, Dávid Adrienn, Hodos Nikolett, Ábrám Zsuzsa
A true story serves as the inspiration for the show: Farida, an
18-year-old girl of the Yazidi tribe is taken to one of the Islamic State’s
prisons in 2014. Due to her bravery and resilience, she eventually manages to
break free from the horrors of captivity, although the moments of physical and
psychological terror she had lived through change her life forever. The show
seeks answers – from the victim’s perspective – to the question whether there
is a way to erase the horrors of abuse and violence from one’s soul? Can the
passing of time lead to the healing of wounds?
The show Farida doesn’t deviate
from the original event, yet the religious and cultural context of the Yazidi
tribe is placed into a universal framework – and therefore the issue of
victimhood receives a present-day and generally valid relevance: such events
happen often, and are creeping ever closer to us. The safety of times past is
no more. Anyone can become a victim of another person’s abuses or violence.
Farida is then the honest voice of the potential victim in all of us.
Macaveiu
Blanka