MEDIATHEK

For Moving Margins - Chapter II, Kinga Szemessy (Budapest, Hungary/ Salzburg, Austria) focuses on a perceivable lack of dialogue between the contemporary socially engaged artists and the former people’s educators who usually reside in cultural houses (‘művelődési házak’) inherited from Hungary’s socialist era. By looking at archival materials and current policies of (dance) cultural participation, she looks at what role the increasing number of participatory dramaturgies might have in filling this gap and what methodical problematics it let to arise.

For more information, visit: touchingmargins.com/Kinga

About the Moving Margins project:

Moving Margins was a web-based laboratory and discursive study group dedicated to various dance heritages, represented by its diverse group of participants/researchers. It questioned the existing paradigm of knowledge transmission from expertise holders to students. A proposed structure allowed participants to communicate horizontally, bringing their own expertise, sharing practices with each other, and learning from one another while pointing out blind spots in existing infrastructures dealing with dance archives. Corresponding to these goals, artists who were already engaged in individual research on their archives of inquiry were invited to contribute to Moving Margins' collective research.

This web-based laboratory not only enabled artists to sustain their practices by adapting to the pandemic situation but also provided a unique opportunity to exchange ideas beyond geographical restrictions and develop sustainable connections and collaborations. Additionally, this format increased the accessibility of the current and final research results to a broader audience by sharing summary outcomes on the webpage touchingmargins.com.

The recordings in this series were made during the non-public stage of the laboratory exchange and were initially intended only for internal circulation among the participants. These are each artist's actual workshop sessions for the close group of collaborators. The artists agreed to share them with the broader public of the Media Library as we work towards the common goal of diversifying archival materials.

In collaboration with DEUTSCHES ZENTRUM DES INTERNATIONALEN THEATERINSTITUTS (ITI), Mediathek für Tanz und Theater.

Supported by the NATIONAL PERFORMANCE NETWORK - STEPPING OUT, funded by the Federal Government Commissioner for Culture and Media within the framework of the initiative NEUSTART KULTUR. Assistance Program for Dance.

[mla]

Powered by Froala Editor