BEYOND EVERYDAYNESS
26 March – 2 May 2010, Budapest (Hungary)
The place of the exhibition: Gizi Bajor Actors’ Museum (Bajor Gizi Színészmúzeum), an exhibition place of the Hungarian Theatre Museum and Institute. The Hungarian exhibition was curated by Eszter Aczél, art historian (Budapest History Museum) assisted by theatrologists Sylvia Huszár and Attila Szabó.
A festive opening speech was made by György Spiró, dramatist, novelist and essayist, who has emerged as one of post-war Hungary’s most prominent literary figures. He is a member of the Széchenyi Academy of Letters and Arts.
Opening speech by György Spiró here
Special guests of the festive opening:
Blaž Masle, a cultural councillor, ambassador of the Republic of Slovenia; Marek Toman, a deputy ambassador, Embassy of the Czech Republic ; Michal Černý, tanácsos, a director of the Budapest Czech Centre; Arkadius Bernasz, a councillor, director of the Polish Institute in Budapest; Francois Laquieze, a councillor, director of the French Institutea; Peter Tomčík, a secretary of the Slovak Embassy, a deputy director of the Slovak Institute as well as the directors and representatives of the theatres in Budapest.
19 April 2010 - TACE – Day for Museum Professonals
Supporters, media partners of the exhibition and the accompanying events:
Hungarian National Cultural Fund, Budapest Spring Festival, Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Budapest, Czech Centrum Budapest, FUGA Budapest Centre for Architecture, Hotel Sissi, Építészfórum.hu, Duna TV , Art.portal.hu
Accompanying programme:
I.
THE THEATRE AND THE CITY, international conference in theatre urbanism, accompanying event of the exhibition, 2010. 26-27 March 2010 –
The conference was organized by Attila Szabó based on the concept of Mihály Vargha. The event was dedicated to the memory of Mihály Vargha.
Hosted by the FUGA Budapest Center of Architecture, the two-day event was attended by Central European scenographers, architects, stage designers, architecture historians, theatre directors presenting 12 papers and a roundtable discussion about the relationship of theatres and city structures, site specific theatre projects, city planning, politics and theatre architecture, the future of theatre constructions. All presentations were followed by extensive debates, the presentations recorded on video and published on our website: http://szinhaziintezet.hu/index.php?action=fomenu&sel=tudomanyos_tev
Participants of the symposium: Vladimír Soukenka (Faculty of Architecture of ČVUT in Prague), Péter Horgas (scenographer), Tomáš Žižka (architect, scenographer), Andrea Szakál (architect) Lenka Bednářová (architect), Zsuzsanna Ordasi (art historian, University of Pannonia), Péter Klobusovszki (architect, Budapest University of Technology and Economics), László Kalmár and Zsolt Zsuffa (ZSK Architects), László Deme (project director, Lisys Ltd. ), Iván Szabó-Jilek (architecture journalist), Igor Kovačević (architect, main currator of the exhibition Beyond Everydayness), Forgách András (writer, playwright), Marek Adamov (SK, Leader of Stanica Zilina-Zariecie), Bartosz Frąckowiak (PL, director), Meta Hocevar (SI, director, scenographer)
II.
VISIONS AND POSSIBILITIES –
Chamber exhibition at the FUGA Budapest Centre of Architecture. A selection from the student designs of TACE Workshop I in Ljubljana. Plans, models, visualisations of the theatre for the 21st century made by students from Ljubljana, Budapest, Prága, Pozsony, Brno, Gdańsk, Gliwice, Liberec.
Plans from the Competition for the Weöres Sándor Theatre in Szombathely
The most representative designs were selected from the two-round competition announced by the city of Szombathely (Western Hungary) for the construction of a new theatre building with the possibility of using an old cultural centre or demolishing it. The exhibited plans by the most important Hungarian architects presented the general patterns of thinking about new original theatre architecture at the beginning of the new millennium just as some of the more utopistic, irregular ideas with strong architectural identity.
Curator: Attila Szabó
Attendance
At the Gizi Bajor Theatre Museum during the exhibition 927 tickets were sold. There were 14 guided tours by the curators, 5 of them in English. The international conference “The Theatre and the City” was attended by 170 people.