CALL FOR APPLICATIONS-RESEARCH INTO THE UNKNOWN – improvisational laboratory / 2013 Autumn
Artist-in-residence program in Budapest, Hungary
14th Oct – 18th Dec, 2013
Concept: by Michaela Hargitay A/H, coordinator: Workshop Foundation/H,
Artistic coach: Eszter Gál/H
Mirko Lazarevic(MNE)/Andrea Bartók For time to space
Mirko Lazarevic with his dancer partner is working on a sculpture series that will be created by translating the dancer's movement into the lenguage of sculpture. Like in the photography, in the wing of sculpture there is no time dimension, there is no duration, there is only form that seems to last forever, while in dance the time is so crucial. Using the motion tracking technology and interactive programming, the researchers will submerge into questions of interpolations between dance, drawing, time, space, solid and fluent. What will happen if we drain the dimension of time from an dance performance? How an artist motion can be captured without that time dimension? How it looks, and what new it reveals about that performance? What new ideas will arise from such conditions in performance's improvisation? What about speed dynamics, can they too be translated into timeless space without losing its value? etc.
Mirko Lazarevic graduated at Computer Arts and Design faculty in Belgrade. He is working as a graphic designer and organizing Sinestezija, contemporary visual arts and design festival.
Andi Bartók
After studying in Budapest Contemporary Dance School, she graduated in SEAD. At the moment she is freelancer in Budapest and intensively engaged in yoga.
What is the program about?
Research into the Unknown is a residency program where artists/creators and the audience can research what improvisation means in the field of contemporary arts. The program offers an intensive researching opportunity for artists/creators and focusing on the creative process, on the research itself rather then creating a performance. The program is made up of three consecutive steps, in each step the research period is followed by a presentation where audience plays an important role by giving feedback and dialogue with the artists / creators.
What is the aim of the program?
The aim of the program is to encourage artists/creators who are researching improvisation as an artistic tool in the field of contemporary dance and other art forms. Each semester one Hungarian and one foreign artist/creator participate in the residency program. They choose a partner / artist from another art-form, with whom they venture into the Unknown with the tool of improvisation.
The first presentation offers a possibility to present a rough work-out of the artistic concept in a studio, with the integration of the audience as an active part of the performance.
The second step is a work-in-progress show in a (theatre) studio with minimal lights and technical help, with audience feedback-round at the end.
The closing evening of the residency program at the end of the third step is a theatre performance where participating pairs present the results of their research work.
We offer you:
• rehearsal space
• financial support
• accommodation
• travel costs (one trip to Budapest and back within Europe)
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This autumn Mirko Lazarevic (MNE) and Márk Mészáros were selected to participate in the residency program. Each of them chose a Hungarian partner to research together in their topic related to movement.
Márk Mészáros/Márk Bartha/Rita Ádám
“My starting point is the assumption that the voice is a part of the body.
I assume that the relationship between voice and body is strongly present, not only on a physical, but also on a mental level. In various states we speak in different tempo, volume and pitch, and these attributes have an impact on our body and physicality.
While the voice vocally communicates the internal motion, the body communicates the same externally.
In this research, we are trying to translate the diversity of phonation into the language of dance improvisation, in order to find new improvisational tools and to find out more about the 'full performer', who can channel the internal motion trough the moving of his or her body and voice.”
Márk Mészáros graduated at ArtEZ Academy in Arnhem in 2013. He was an exchange student at Danish National School of Contemporary Dance. He learned among others from David Zambrano, Schott Wells and Meg Stuart.
Márk Bartha has been practicing beatboxfor 8 years .He’s graduated from the Media Art Department of Electronicmusic in the Faculty ofArt, Pécs this year, since then his interest has extended to the live electro-acoustic improvisation and electronic music.
Rita Ádám
„As a singer-songwriter I have been working in several situations and genre from a jazz-gospel choir to a contemporary duo. But in fact, I take part in everything I am attracted to. Let it be music, dancing, acting or even experiences without reference to art.”
Mirko Lazarevic
Mirko Lazarevic with his dancer partner is working on a sculpture series that will be created by translating the dancer's movement into the lenguage of sculpture. Like in the photography, in the wing of sculpture there is no time dimension, there is no duration, there is only form that seems to last forever, while in dance the time is so crucial. Using the motion tracking technology and interactive programming, the researchers will submerge into questions of interpolations between dance, drawing, time, space, solid and fluent. What will happen if we drain the dimension of time from an dance performance? How an artist motion can be captured without that time dimension? How it looks, and what new it reveals about that performance? What new ideas will arise from such conditions in performance's improvisation? What about speed dynamics, can they too be translated into timeless space without losing its value? etc.
Mirko Lazarevic graduated at Computer Arts and Design faculty in Belgrade. He is working as a graphic designer and organizing Sinestezija, contemporary visual arts and design festival.
Andi Bartók
After studying in Budapest Contemporary Dance School, she graduated in SEAD. At the moment she is freelancer in Budapest and intensively engaged in yoga.
Date of the presentations:
19th Oct Trafó Studio 7pm- 1st presentation - Márk Mészáros
9th Nov Trafó Studio 7pm - 1st presentation - Mirko Lazarevic
23rd Nov Trafó Studio 7pm - 2nd presentation - Márk Mészáros
30th Nov Trafó Studio 7pm - 2nd presentation - Mirko Lazarevic
17th Dec MU Theater 8pm - Closing event - Márk Mészáros, Mirko Lazarevic
Supporters: DÉPARTS, National Cultural Fund, Ministry of National Resources, MU Theater , Trafo House of Contemporary Arts, Cam-El-Com
With the support of the Culture Programme of the European Union