The Genial Epoch

The Genial Epoch Inter­na­ti­o­nal Tou­ring Art Fes­ti­val

The next pro­ject events:

2012. 05. 15  20.00 “The Genial Epoch” Pho­to­ra­phy Contest’s Exhi­bi­tion ope­ning, Buda­pest, Art­ka­ta­komba [HU]

2012. 06. 05 20.00 Bruno Schulz per­for­mance and work­shop, Nitra, Staré Divadlo [SK]

2012. 06. 27 20.00 Bruno Schulz per­for­mance and work­shop, Buda­pest, Bake­lit [HU]

The result’s of the Pho­to­grapy Con­test 

Pic­ture selec­tion of the ope­ning cere­mony at Fogas­ház, Hun­gary

The Genial Epoch Inter­na­ti­o­nal Tou­ring Art Fes­ti­val is a 3 stage event series ins­pi­red by Bruno Schulz’s work, con­sis­ting of Photo app­li­ca­tion and exhi­bi­tion, the­atre per­for­mance and follow-up ini­tiatory the­atre work­shop.

The genial epoch is the age of child­like whole­ness, in which mirac­les are natu­ral; the period when we have the most active atti­tude to the world that sur­rounds us. The pro­ject aims to re-search this cre­a­tive dyna­mic view­po­int, and raise the unders­tan­ding and the open­ness towards other cul­tu­res.

Pro­ject desc­ript­ion

 The main theme of the 2011/2012 Genial Epoch Inter­na­ti­o­nal Tou­ring Art Fes­ti­val is open­ness and cre­a­tive ima­gi­na­tion, that makes up the study field of the pro­ject in V4 count­ries, and takes vari­ous forms: the­atre per­for­mance, follow-up ini­tiatory the­atre work­shop, and a photo app­li­ca­tion dea­ling with the main theme, the result of which will be shown wit­hin the frame of an inter­na­ti­o­nal Exhi­bi­tion to be ope­ned by the Palimp­sest music band con­sis­ting of musi­ci­ans of V4 count­ries.

The genial epoch, or the ret­urn to child­hood, does not try to get back to the past time, but the active, dyna­mic recog­ni­tion, to re-gain that kind of prejudice-free sight, which helps to build a bridge over bar­ri­ers and dif­fe­ren­ces bet­wixt cul­tu­res .What is the genial epoch? What can we pre­sent from a man, as objec­tive truth? A pos­sible vari­ant? Rumour or pre­ju­dice? A family legend? Do we dis­pose of somet­hing at all? The rea­son of choo­sing The Nobel-prize novel of Bruno Schulz was, that des­pite its the­mes and cha­rac­ters belong to the East-European, Hasid Jewish folk life and cus­tom, the ideas ref­lect the milieu of Cent­ral Europe.

 Bruno Schulz: The Tre­a­tise on Man­ne­quins

 The inter­na­ti­o­nal pro­duc­tion entit­led The Tre­a­tise on Man­ne­quins ins­pi­red by Shculz’s art­work con­ta­i­ning vivid fine arts and visual ele­ments was born in 2010,as the result of com­mon stu­dio work of (PL) One Poem Theatre,(HU) Kom­pá­nia The­atre Studio,(CZ) Tomás Sol­dan dramaturgist,(PL) Krzy­sztof Zylin­ski director,(SK) Soňa Bel­lé­rová set designer,(HU) Bör­csök Anna, Lukács Máté,and Lili Zsa­bo­kor­szky fine artist,(PL)Michał Wawrzy­niak and (HU)Miklós Hep­pes com­pos­ers, and László Lukács(HU) direc­tor assis­tant. The follow-up ini­tiatory the­atre work­shop is built on the methods of drama peda­gogy. Ins­tead of offe­ring a con­ven­ti­o­nal, pas­sive recept­ion stand­po­int, it acti­va­tes the par­ti­ci­pants using experience-centred tech­ni­ques.

 Tar­get gro­ups

 The V4 part­ners’ own hos­ting faci­li­ties help the Inter­na­ti­o­nal Tou­ring Art Fes­ti­val in orga­nis­ing their exis­ting audi­ence, and thus the pro­ject can count with theatre-goers (mainly uni­ver­sity stu­dents). Moreo­ver, our goal is to reach the the­atre non-goer audi­ence as well, with the goal of the­atre edu­ca­tion, to help enli­ven the com­mu­ni­ca­tion bet­ween cul­tu­res, for neit­her the per­for­mance and the­atre work­shop, nor the exhi­bi­tion require the unders­tan­ding of the given lan­gu­age or artis­tic savvy. The inter­na­ti­o­nal photo app­li­ca­tion for­ming the star­ting point of the pro­ject intends to add­ress wide audi­en­ces of V4 count­ries’ artists/art lovers and encou­rage them to cre­a­tion, in accor­dance with the rea­li­sa­tion of the pro­ject and pro­ject objec­ti­ves.

 Pha­ses of the Pro­ject

11/2011 1st Inter­na­ti­o­nal Art Tou­ring Fes­ti­val in Buda­pest, Artus Theatre

01/2012 “The genial epoch” exhi­bi­tion in Fogasház

02/2012 2nd Inter­na­ti­o­nal Art Tou­ring Fes­ti­val in and PL and “The genial epoch” exhi­bi­tion in MDK

04/2012 3rd Inter­na­ti­o­nal ArtTou­ring Fes­ti­val in Slo­va­kia and Czech Repub­lic and “The genial epoch” exhi­bi­tion in The­atre Poton(SK) and The­atre Nod (CZ)

05/2012 4th Inter­na­ti­o­nal Art Tou­ring Fes­ti­val in Buda­pest (HU) and Nitra (SK) and “The genial epoch” exhi­bi­tion in Staré Divadlo Karola Spi­sáka v Nitre.

05/2012 “The genial epoch” exhi­bi­tion in Artkatakomba

Impor­tant links:

 Viseg­rad Fund– www.visegradfund.org

Old The­atre of Karol Spišák in Nitra, SK– www.staredivadlo.sk

Divadlo Pôtoň, SK– www.poton.sk

Divadlo D’EPOG, CZ– www.facebook.com/pages/Divadlo-DEPOG

Youth Cul­ture House, PL– www.mdk.opole.pl

Artus Con­tem­po­rary Arts Asso­ci­a­tion, HU– www.artus.hu

Fogas­ház Arts Centre, HU– www.fogashaz.hu

Art­ka­ta­komba Free Asso­ci­a­tion of Artists, HU– www.artkatakomba.hu

Palimp­sest Cul­tu­ral Foun­da­tion, HU– http://prae.hu

Zsámbék-pool Tou­rism Asso­ci­a­tion, HU– www.zsambekinyariszinhaz.hu

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