[artinfo] Art Symposium Hungary (fwd)

[Andrea Szekeres]

LANDSCAPES OF DESIRE
SEHNSUCHTS MODELLE
12th International Art Symposium
Ricsovary Major, Hungary, 21.7. - 11.8.2002

"The desire for the 'differen't:  The different, which
could be the possibility of non normative, non-violent
structuring of life, the courage for individuality, for
originality and peculiarity"  (Adornos "Minima Moralia")

SPECIAL REDUCED FEES FOR HUNGARIAN ART AND ARCHITECTURE STUDENTS AND
REDUCED FEES FOR ALL HUNGARIAN RESIDENTS! IF YOU ARE INTERESTED PLEASE
CONTACT US: kulturaxe@t0.or.at

Utopia Communication?
The Art Symposium is organized by KulturAXE, transnational communication
and artaction, and invites for the 12th time to a forum of communication
and exchange of ideas with artists and participants from many different
nations - in interdisciplinary art classes and project oriented workshops.

The communication in the transcultural and interdisciplinary context as a
source of inspiration stimulating thought processes and as an impetus for
personal life, for longings and desires in a highly changing world and
complex environments. The workshops are free to cooperate closely, up to
dynamically generating new contents on site.

The Art Symposium as a flexible and dynamic platform, which reacts on
communication processes and the preoccupation with the new as the 'valuable
other' to be explored, criticized and taken along. Ready held documentation
and information as well as video-screenings on the artists present at the
symposium, on national art scenarios, as well as on philosophical and
scientific themes - 'daily reading hour' - as a basis for discussions and
talks.

Interdisciplinarity and networks as crucial factors of our time? The
urgency of an art and culture oriented communication and interconnectedness
that links freedoms of different kinds (Amartya Sen, Indian Nobel Prize
winner: the immanent role of "freedoms of different kind") as opposed to
the ever increasing economically based exchange and collaboration? "The
challenge how to employ information tools to create new art, how to
interface them not just to data but to representations of human experience,
subjectivity and memory (Lev Manovich)"?

Programme
Residence weeks with a workshop programme on visual arts in an
interdisciplinary environment focusing on experimental approaches. The
programme consists of studios and project oriented workshops in the fields
of painting, drawing, sculpture, photography, publishing, public art,
performance, mixed media,  video and internet in connection with media
theory, philosophy and music. The intention is to foster new models for
thinking and practice with the aim to mix and work together in a new
critical context. It is also about creating a network for further exchange.

Ricsovary Major
is a vast country estate from the turn of the century located in the
vicinity of Lajosmisze and 70 km from Budapest. Ricsovary Major, consists
of a manor house and a number of houses and bungalows. The studios and
working facilities are directly situated at the estate.

KulturAXE,
transcontinental communication & art action, represents a forum for
communication, interdisciplinary and experimental artistic approaches. With
the aim to foster transcontinental synergies and to understand and
interpret the complexity of cultural diversity. Analysis of time-, space-
and lifequalities. Use of new media and modern information technologies.

Institutional cooperation - networking:
Croatia: Zarko Gojceta, FARS, Fine Arts Society, Zagreb
Czech Republic: Academy of Fine Arts in Prague; Brno University of Technology
Hungary: University of Arts and Crafts
Poland: The Jan Matejko Academy of Fine Arts, Krakaw
Slovakia: Academy of Fine Arts & Design, Bratislava
South Africa: Technikon Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Ukraine: NCA, New Creative Association Fund, Kiev
USA: Webster University, St.Louis


ART PROGRAMME 2002

STUDIOS:
PAINTING, EVA BODNAR / H/A, 21.7.-11.8.
PAINTING, ALOIS MOSBACHER, FRENZI RIGLING / A, 21.7.-4.8.
PAINTING AND GRAPHICS, JAN FEKETE / SK, 21.7.-11.8.
PAINTING AND DRAWING, ATTILA PILLER / H/A, 21.7.-11.8.2002
'SECRETS' IN PAINTING, YURIY SOLOMKO / UKR, 21.7.-11.8.2002
PHOTOGRAPHY EXPERIMENTAL, HANNES GLASER / A, 21.7.-11.8.2002
WORKSHOPS:
CUM-ERA, MIXED MEDIA, WAYNE BARKER, S. MNSINI, D. HYSLOP / RSA,
21.7.-11.8.2002
MATRIX - SCULPTURE / WEB, MARC EDWARDS / RSA, 21.7.-4.8.2002
WHITE SPOTS, INTERNET / NET-COMMUNITIES, EVA URSPRUNG / A, CYM / NL,
28.7.-11.8.2002
CRIME AND ART, Sculpture, installation, slides, MANFRED ERJAUTZ / A,
28.7.-11.8.2002
DESIRING LANDSCAPE, performance, video, photo, CAROL HODSON / USA,
21.7.-11.8.2002
PARALLELS - THE OPERA, Video, Sound,  LASZLO L. REVESZ / H, 21.7.-4.8.2002
VANDALISM, TRANCE, ECSTASY, Mike Hentz /USA/CH, Andreas Findeisen/A,
Gabriel Svossil/A, 28.7.-11.8.2002
HOW TO SHAVE THE MEDIA, WEB- AND PRINT PUBLISHING, Christian Zillner / A,
Christian Spiegelfeld / A, 21.7.-11.8.2002


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