2023 Open! Festival
As one of the winners of an application launched by the Centre for Contemporary Architecture, the Open! Festival, the group now declared itself to be a collective after so many years of common projects. The collective’s experimental cultural-artistic incubation house (hub) brings experiences and projects closer to the public in experimental, participatory formats, from international community fusion cooking to Brazilian Forró Music and Dance Evenings, film events, art workshops performances, pop-up exhibitions.
The arts incubation house (hub) drew on the resources of the students' divergent international cultural backgrounds. The hub's programmes were therefore organised to focus on the doctoral students' artistic and research specialisms, and to organise audience- engaging programmes to showcase their research-based work in the form of interactive, dialogue-based events. On the other hand, they experimented with collaborative art forms based on the active participation of visitors in the hub.Due to the artistic background of the doctoral students, art and social engagement, art mediation was the primary aspect of the hub's operation, with the long-term goal of systematically building a non-profit, social engagement, which is planned in collaboration with the Műtő cultural foundation and the Sandwich Bar community hub.
Cecilia Bandeira (BR)
Brazilian Pocket Show and
Forró Dance Workshop
Cecilia Badeira invites Arrasta Pest, a group of six friends who play to ease their saudades (homesickness) by bringing Brazil to Budapest in every tune.
Yo, let’s eat!
An alternative kitchen/dining event where our members and other residents of different nationalities in Budapest prepare and serve food as a collective art project (on the examples of e.g. Rirkit Tiravanija, Gordon Matta Clark). Led by their mutual curiosity, people from abroad and from the neighboorhood gather around this open-door kitchen/dining, exchanging food, drink, conversations, stories and laughter.
Özgür Ilter (TR) & Aysegül Ipek (TR)
Linoleum Craving and Printmaking Workshop
An illustrator and visual artist duo, Özgür Ilter and Aysegül Ipek examine the history of the place of the workshop itself in Szövetség street through a communal lino cut workshop. The place has the significance of being an idiosyncratic architectural specimen in the sense of its ever changing identity throughout the years and its residents within.
Linocut printing is a graphical art form that allows for even the least experienced enthusiasts to express themselves through carvings, printing compositions and colour combinations. The workshop allow participants to release their preconceptions on how ‘visually pleasing’ their art and their finished result should look and to focus on how their inner selves and their momentary impulsions would lead them to work and to create, be it creating natural forms or abstract compositions they wish to create.
Erekle Chinchilakashvili (GA)
Ritualistic music and blurred boundaries
The event is created with the help of Cristobal Campero who works with youngsters from District 9, and the T9 Band, in which most kids come from minority families, Romani and emigrant families. The event brings kids from District 9, to communicate with local kids from District 7. The event is more like an educational workshop on rhythm and percussion playing. This would be an interesting medium to get involved with younger representatives of local society.
Mansour Forouzesh (IR)
HUFA CineClub considers “Art, Cinema and Society” theme to see how the artists examine social issues with a critical approach. In addition, we talk about how to use the tools of cinema and media to show personal concerns that are related to social issues in a wider perspective. Each 2-hour meeting with a specific topic will examine the title of the meeting with the participation of the audience and the creator of the work and possibly the guest speaker of the meeting.
CineClub1 Short films
Install (Nguyen Thi Thanh Tra, 12 minutes): The film depicts the context of the dependent and controlled relationship of the children in Asian patriarchal families through a fictional scenario.
Rom (Nguyen Thi Thanh Tra, 17 minutes): The film depicts the precarious fate of street children who work as "dealers" and sell lottery results in the slums of Saigon.
The Funeral (Zahra Fuladvand,10 minutes): The Funeral documentary video will represent the ritual moments of Iranian funeral ceremonies, The moments of preparation to saying Goodbye forever to someone who you depend on.
My neighbour at Salétrom utca (Nuruzzaman Khan, 15 minutes): Bappy lives in Saletrom utca 8 and he finds his old neighbour interesting but they don't have the common language of speaking but they try their best to break the boundaries and create a space of memories!
Before Pandemic and War, there were Bed Bugs and Love (Nuruzzaman Khan 17 minutes): He was filming her. They were dreaming of living together between Bangladesh and Lithuania. They were dreaming to make films together, to open a 5 meals restaurant and to adopt orphans. Now he looks back at his life and his broken love relationship.
A Friendship in Tow/Toe (Atsushi Kuwayama, 10 minutes) : The film portrays the growth of a friendship between a Portuguese lady and an Asian guy in one of the longest stairs in Lisbon. Without fully understanding each other, they share stories and sarcasm that reveal their personalities and vulnerabilities in the span of just five flights.
I am not (Enkhtaivan Ochirbat, 10 minutes): This video work is a combination of pieces of performance art that I have made. There will be a more interesting version of them, perhaps more transition from one to the other. There is no self. As you exist, I exist. It has a philosophical context expressed by the unique rituals and behavior of sound.
CineClub2
The Living and The Dead (Manuel F. Contreras, documentary, 96 minutes): Thirty years after the death of his father, Manuel decides to look for his half-brother. Deep down he knows this is all part of confronting his fears of repeating what happened in his family years ago.
CineClub3
Lost Whispers in the Distance (Mansour Forouzesh, Documentary, 60 minutes): A group of Iranian and Afghan refugees living in a refugee camp in Serbia talk about their dreams and visions for life in Europe.