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Fine Art Workshop
Photo Workshop
Film Workshop
Theatre Workshop
Motion and Dance
Literature Workshop
Philosophy
Élboy
Camp Newspaper
25th July — 4th August, 2002 • Minimimum Party 2002:
Shining Icarus
3rd—4th May, 2002 • Minimum Party at the Mediawave
festival, Győr, Hungary
12th—13th April, 2002 • Charta Minimumia 3
Minimimum Party 2002
25th July–4th August
Near Kászonfeltíz (Tiszástő), Harghita County,
RO
Report made by: Ildikó Lőrincz
Photos by: Mária Égető, Zsolt Györffy, Réka Hegyi, László
Irsai (Zacsek), Angéla Kalló
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| The activity of this year’s camp had two levels, that is in the morning the workshops were organised and in the afternoon there were professional lectures and debates in the frame of the forum entitled Experimental Art – the Past, the Present and the Future. The camp had around 120–130 participants, among them young people, students, specialists (the leaders of the workshops and the invited lecturers of the forum) and those interested in the questions of art. The workshop, in which the participants could make their own experiments, was one of the following: Music Workshop (leader Miqueu Montanaro – French musician; vocal and instrumental improvisations); Visual Arts Workshop (leaders: Zsolt Irsay – artist, Târgu Mureş and László Mátyás – artist, Cluj Napoca; performances and installations based on natural materials); Photo Workshop (leader: Angéla Kalló – university lecturer and photographer, Cluj Napoca; the participants created a space/environment by using the technique of photomontage); Motion Theatre (leaders: Melinda Jakab – dancer, student of dance-director, Cluj Napoca and András Urbán – director, Yugoslavia; the participants combined the exercises of contact dance in order to create a coherent performance); Literature Workshop (leader: István Berszán – university lecturer, man of letters; he placed literature in the ritual medium of “writing and reading exercises”); Philosophy Workshop (leaders: Zsolt Pálfalusi – university lecturer, Budapest and Zsolt Máté – student of philosophy; the participants of this workshop discussed the concepts of sin, evil and tragedy and presented their conclusions through performances). The Film Workshop, that was well-planned, but unfortunately only partly realised, made the documentary material of the camp (leader: Tibor Schneider).
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| Jakab Melinda Motion Theatre – DanceLeaders: Melinda Jakab (Cluj Napoca), dance-artist and student in dance
director profile and András Urbán director (Yugoslavia)
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Film WorkshopLeader: Schneider Tibor (Cluj Napoca) filmmaker
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Berszán István Literature WorkshopLeader: István Berszán (Kolozsvár/Cluj), lecturer The Workshop of Ritual Writing and Reading Exercises had taken place for the third time in the Minimum Party Global Art Creative Camp. This open-air group work, as regards its greatest part, is a part of a research that through the practice of literature guides us into ritual motion spheres existing beyond the evidence of the theoretical and practical usage of the signifier. In this context the writing and the reading process has mainly duration and not meaning. Those gestures give rhythm to the duration of the exercises, which are the tuning elements realised through the impulses occurring during the process of reading and writing. The main task of this year’s workshop activity was the study of the relationship between the physical attitude and the exercises made for the sake of developing the attention. At the same time it was preserved the rhythm of former experiments: gesture therapy, ritual duration-community, writing and reading exercises.
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Philosophy WorkshopLeader: Zsolt Pálfalusi (Hungary), lecturer and Zsolt Máté, student
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ÉlboyThe experimental theatre of the artists: Attila Szabó, Artúr Vranyecz
and István Molnár (Their joy-theatre can be described by the following
characteristics: conceptual art, reflexive way of thinking, improvisations.) |
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| Edit Boda wrote about them in camp newspaper: “Continuous
self-reflection in the black hole and its gravity-field, where – we can
see it – everything is possible. The stage is a black hole, where beside
of profan and ironic we can see even more profan and ironic things. It’s
a place, whence are squeezed out limbs, upper-parts, heads, voices and
trunks, text-scraps. Here can appear together easily the Ilion, Apollinaire,
Márta Sebestyén and the exaggerating presentation of man’s «natural
manifestations» (ex: belchigs, vomitings, fartings). This is a conglomerate
of time-, space-, and state-densities. This black hole in Tiszásfő is
the curved pipe of XX-XXIth century culture. And who or what will take
the hook? The actor, the audience? Who needs the story and who will tell
that? About who or about what? About theatre? About acting? About theatre.
About acting.” |
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Camp Newspaper
Like we got used to it, the Camp Paper, even through difficulties but is published one ore more times.Zoltán Bíró an his stuff writes about the camp-life, events, and they does that somtimes in an irregular way. |
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István Berszán (Kolozsvár/Cluj): Alternative Motion Spheres in the Literary
Practice
Prezentation of Transit House, Kolozsvár/Cluj (Csilla Könczey)
Attila Gáspárik (Marosvásárhely/Târgu Mureş): Romanian Hungarian Film since
1998 or what is omitted from the Korunk
Zsolt Irsay (Marosvásárhely/Târgu Mureş): MA.MŰ. 1978–1984
Angéla Kalló (Kolozsvár/Cluj): Picture in the Binary System
Szabolcs KissPál (Budapest): Informel in Media Art
Katalin Moscu (Kolozsvár/Cluj): Future in the Experimental Architecture
Zsolt Lászlóffy (Kolozsvár/Cluj): The Aesthetics of Electronic Music
András Romhányi (Budapest): Eroticism in Folk Art
Schneider Tibor (Kolozsvár): Experimental Film in Romania after 1998
András Urbán (Zenta): Summer Movie (The Introduction of the Non-profit,
Civil-theatrical and Global Art Organisation of Vajdaság)
Gusztáv Ütő (Sepsiszentgyörgy/Sfântu Gheorghe): The AnnART of Yesterday,
Today and Tomorrow
Zoltán Vécsi Nagy (Budapest): The Self-discovery of Hungarian Art from Romania
in Sixties and Seventies
and The MAMŰ in Hungary
During the process of organisation the lectures of the following personalities:
Alexandru Antik (Kolozsvár/Cluj)
The following lectures will be presented on tape or wil be read:
Józsa T. István (Kolozsvár/Cluj): The Occasional Meaning (its birth, resourses,
environment)
Dorel Găină (Nagyvárad/Oradea): Experiments in ’80s at Oradea
In 2002 at the Mediawave Film Festival, among the many-coloured alternative
programmes the Minimum Party Society has had the possibility of introducing
itself. The 3rd Charta Minimumia Global Art Festival was displayed through a
multimedia installation entitled Presentation of an Exceptional Exhibition;
under the title MP Panorama Angéla Kalló exhibited a photo montage of great
dimension about the last year’s camp.
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The installation consisted of simultaneously shown pictures, film and sound material (interviews). Pictures by George Maier, Angéla Kalló; film by Márton Imecs and István Molnár; interviews by Zsuzsa Gergely, Zsuzsa Szuszámi and Éva Soó; CD by Rudolf Varga. |
The documentary team of the Mediawave Festival (under the guidance of Attila Magyar) made an interview with our representatives. The following paragraphs are from this interview.
István Molnár: “Our team is more smaller as compared with the organising group of the Mediawave, that is why the Charta Minimumia is smaller than this festival. The global art festival of Kolozsvár obviously differs from the creative camp: we have found a wonderful and partly ruined building, which we tried to “fill in” trough a specially organised exhibition in order the building should become an organic part of the festival. We have invented a “route” on which the members of the public were guided one by one by a Stalker. (...) This was a unique experience because here the visitor was initiated into the happening in the company of an unknown guide.”
Szabolcs Korodi: “We have to admit that many years ago we have been infected
with this artistic-experimental spirituality at the Mediawave. As far back as
1995 Jenő Hartyándi, the director of the festival encouraged us to take on the
organisation of a programme similar to the Mediawave. We have got the message
first of all because here in Transylvania, there is a few years long time-lag
in the field of experimental arts.”
Selections from Angéla Kalló’s work entitled MP Panorama – Survey of the Minimum
Party 2001 Creative Camp. Photos by István Bíró, Mária Égető, László Irsai,
Róbert Márkus
In the evening of 12th April those interested could enter the solitary building of the Casino of Kolozsvár/Cluj, which is situated alongside the esplanade, only one by one and only if guides, who wore a mark, accompanied them. The initiation of the visitors was a part of the Charta Minimumia 3 Global Art Festival, which this year was announced in advance using the following motto: What was First Columbus or the Hen?
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The solitary building of the Casino of Kolozsvár/Cluj situated alongside the esplanade |
The programme of the Minimum Party, which can be considered unique of its kind
from the point of view of the Romanian Hungarian contemporary artistic activities,
was realised thank to the help of the following organisations: Illyés Public
Foundation, the Ministry for Youth and Sport of Romania (Ro: MTS) and firms:
the TV-station of Cluj, Lizard, Firma9, 1024.
This festival has actually operated as an art exhibition with a special space-time
continuum and the public could perceive this character clearly. As we mentioned
several times above every visitor was guided by a person in the labyrinth of
the Casino: thus the works of art belonging to the fields of fine art, literature,
music, photo, film and dramatic arts had a well-planned order, the elements
being thus the episodes of the process. Although the greatest part of the material
belonged to the field of fine art, in the series there were dramatic sketches,
actions and motion elements, light effects and short films, and this way the
above-mentioned elements mobilised the otherwise static components. The festival
gave possibility to revise the self-evident way of existence of the works of
art, and it made the artists to regard them as an element of a work of art realised
by teamwork. The students of the academies of fine arts, the participants of
the Minimum Party Creative Camp and some invited artists were among the artists.
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Installation by the old fan of the MP, László “Zacsek”
Irsay. Title: Tale |
The Minimum Party Society strives for innovation in the field of artistic life
through including the dialogue of the artist-public in the artistic manifestation.
This idea is entirely realised in the Minimum Party Creative Camp, since the
character of the camp creates favourable conditions for the free communication
without prejudices between the creator and spectator, and the communication
may transform even into a dialogue between two or more artists.
The establishment of relationships was also the guiding line of the Charta Minimumia:
the artists belonging to the Minimum Party Society regarded as their task the
creation of an intimate atmosphere of the programme, that is of the collective
work of art. The ritual character, namely the initiation of the public into
the process represents a prototype of a public, which develops a more intimate
relationship with the world of art, and this means the greatest artistic achievement
of the festival.
On 13th April the programme continued, from 7 o’clock p.m.. This time the public
could freely walk about among the exhibited works and at the same time they
might talk about them. After this event a video projection took place that was
about the previous day’s initiation, then the Fesztivál Cultural Association
presented short films and the programme finished with a great party.
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Initiated and initiating persons, the latter with the mark: “Stalker”.
Photo made by Angéla Kalló (hidden camera) |
One of the visitors stated that this programme, which was full of surprises,
“is its own example, it is not an imitation of something and it is not the application
of something seen somewhere else”. The festival mobilised the young artists
and there was a possibility for them to create in group and introduce themselves.
This festival made the ruined building of the Casino a place of amazement and
entertainment and for two days the building might forget about the process of
transioriness.
We hope this programme will be continued.
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