Please join us for the first GPS Chats presentation of 2024. This in-person GPS Chats features GPS Residency artist Csaba Molnár as well as organizers of the “Nature of Us” project, including Ewan McLaren from Live Performance Bazaar in Prague, Czech Republic, and Brigitta Kovács and Gergely Talló from Workshop Foundation in Budapest, Hungary.
Csaba will introduce his personal and artistic background and discuss how personal life experiences have influenced his artistic development. Csaba believes that Art is a tool for reconciling radical extremes and exploring how different ways of expression, when juxtaposed, may transform the most private phenomena into a universal and liberating experience. He seeks to engage in the creative process without inhibitions, thus, his decision making mechanisms are constantly challenged, and he often finds himself out of his comfort zone. Through his multi-disciplinary practice, ranging from choreography, dance, performance art, teaching, costume design, bouffon, singing, and drag, he opens portals to queered versions of reality where norms and conventions lose their coercive force, giving space for humor and creativity. Csaba will also talk about issues impacting the political and funding situation in the Hungarian art scene.
The mission of ‘Nature of Us’ is to find new formulas in art practice and presentation in the context of serious environmental changes. The project is a collaboration between performing arts organizations from four countries of the Central/Eastern European region: Live Performance Bazaar (Czech Republic), Polka dot Foundation (Poland), PlaST Contemporary Dance Platform (Slovakia), Workshop Foundation (Hungary) and also Movement Research (USA). The partners are committed to gradually changing the social environment and perceptions of citizens’ identity in relation to the natural world through artistic research, practice and creation, especially in dance, while cultivating relationships between science and art. https://natureofus.art/
The GPS/Global Practice Sharing program is supported, in part, with generous support from the Trust for Mutual Understanding and the Blanchette Hooker Rockefeller Fund.
Accessibility Notes
- This event will include auditive guidance.
- This event will include projected/displayed words, images, and/or video.
For access-related questions and requests, please email accessibility@movementresearch.org, subject line “GPS Chats.”
