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30th July – 10th August 2008 • Minimum Party 2008: Space-season
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2nd January, 2003 • Montanaro's New Year
concert at Tranzit House in Cluj
25th July — 4th August, 2002 • Minimimum Party
2002: Shining Icarus
3rd—4th May, 2002 • Minimum Party at the Mediawave
festival, Győr, Hungary
12th—13th April, 2002 • Charta Minimumia
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27th July — 5th August, 2001 • Minimum Party
2001: In the Shadow of the Rising Earth
20th July, 2001 • Spider's
Web-aktion (Transilvaniean Student Camp,
Szejkefürdő)
17th March, 2001. • Catalogue-presentation
(Insomnia Café, Cluj)
13th Minimum Party Creative Camp and
Professional Forum
30th July – 10th August 2008
Kászonaltíz (Plăieşii de Jos), Tiszástő (county
Harghita)
Human perception is bound to a given place, and it is
extremely limited. We cannot see ourselves both from an
external and internal point of view, only within boundaries.
We are looking for our place, a place which can be marked as
ours. The result of this quest is the gaining of a kind of
space. Time and space may become shape of our hope. Miklós
Erdély, who attributed a considerable critical potential to
scientific reasoning, speaks about space-like-time and
time-like-perception. Maybe it shows the power of chance that
we have arrived to the same concept like Miklós Erdély did,
while time and motives had been different. “Téridény tehát”
tells Erdély through one of the male voices in „Dirac a
mozipénztár előtt”. Thus the concept of “Téridény” is our
basic motif, the one which guides this year's creative
experiments. It is concrete and abstract at the same time.
Space is what we make our own through moulding, even if its
dimensions are geographical and historical, that is: cannot
be spanned. Be sacred or profane, public or private from a
qualitative point of view, in its characterisation it is
always implied the observer's position: the question of
outside and inside. We wait for those to come in the
workshops (visual arts, photo, film, music, dance,
philosophy, craft) of the 13th Minimum Party Creative Camp,
who would like to play with space. In the camp on 31st July
(21.00 pm) there will be Miquèu Montanaro's (France)
concert.
Visual Arts – led by
Szacsva y Pál (Hungary)
Music Workshop – led by Miqueu Montanaro (Provence, France)
Contemporary Dance Workshop – led by
Ishii Junya (Tokió, Japan)
Photo Workshop – led by Róbert Mosberger (Mór, Hungary)
Film Workshop – led by Károly Szabó (Székelyudvarhely/Odorheiu
Secuiesc, Romania)
Philosophy Workshop – led by Zsolt Pálfalusi (Budapest, Hungary)
Élboly – led by Attila
Szabó (Kolozsvár/Cluj Napoca, Romania)
Craft Workshop – led by Melinda Csergő (Gyergyószárhegy/Lazarea,
Romania)
(Literature) Workshop for writing the next
MP-catalogue – Zoltán Sipos
(Kolozsvár/Cluj Napoca, Romania)
Visual Arts
Led by Szacsva y Pál (Hungary)
The way we imagine time, which can be experienced by all of
us in the same way (but of course this is unreal), we have
also a measure of space, and with its help we try to make
permanent a space concept for all of us. This is only an
aspiration. In reality everybody perceives time in a
different way, individually (Bergson), and (as a consequence)
one also perceives space in a different way. However, the
search for common time and space concept will have
significance until people want to experience and create
things together. The only question is: alongside what kind of
time and space concepts would we like to make common these
two basic dimensions of our individual activities and
experiences? Beyond the scientific and speculative approach,
this time we search for artistic representations of space and
time perception, which due to the nature of art will be
always unique and individual, though it may be realised as
common just in the process of coming into being. The Workshop
of Visual Arts gives space (and time) to experimental
creative work for creative communities based on open genre
and media able to be enlarged. Bring along all those
traditional and new technical devices, which according to
you, may help you in representation, designation, cutting and
recombining of space sections.
Music Workshop
Led by Miquèu Montanaro
(France)
Montanaro is the European wanderer of ethnic based musical
improvisation. His world of music knows no boundaries, his
roots are in the Provençal music, but he is also familiar
with the Eastern European music traditions. He invites all
the musicians, who appreciates making experiments in order to
realise a collective music, and they will make music together
with the land, brooks, trees and every element of the
scenery. The musicians' work will be inspired by the forest.
At the end of the co-operation they will make a CD containing
a selection of their music pieces. In the workshop they will
make experiments with mixing improvisation, folk and
contemporary music and vocal music as well. Beside this great
stress will be laid on listening to each others' playing and
on common breathing.
Photo Workshop
Led by Róbert Mosberger
(Hungary)
In the age of digital photography the participants revitalise
an almost forgotten world of images, they will re-discover
the art of photography with self made and simple photographic
devices. In the workshop they will prepare watch cameras and
different type of pinhole cameras, moreover they will become
familiar with the almost forgotten technique of photogram and
cyanotype. There will be set up Róbert Mosberger's travelling
laboratory, the tent-laboratory which was present with great
success at many festivals. The laboratory of Camera Obscura
is an exciting observing and visual device, but it may be
used as a giant camera and photo laboratory as well.
Film Space-Season 13
Led by Károly Szabó (Romania)
From Einstein's relativity theory through different kind of
space and time theories we arrive to the space and time unit
of film, which may be realised with the help of montage. We
would like to elaborate the 4th dimension through the
avant-garde “Shitteth” comedy by Alfred Jarry, entitled “Ubu
the King” (Ubu Roi). The absurd logic and the symbolic
scenery, the grim humour and the neglection of realistic
requirements it makes really suitable for a work in Kászon.
Creators, directors, cinematographers, actors and costumiers
are invited to come as many as possible and other people for
related tasks, too.
Motion Theatre Workshop
Led by Ishii Junya (Japan)
There are trees, soil, plants, insects, animals and water in
the forest. They don't belong to any nation, religion or
philosophies, although they work well in their own system. At
the beginning human-beings belonged also to the system of
nature. Man is afraid of nature, and at the same time, he/she
respects it. He/she gives something to nature, and takes from
it as well. Dancers dance for the space, and they are
influenced by it. Just to be body and think with body, this
is the aim of our workshop. In this workshop your body will
receive plenty of information from space. Then you will have
a lot of question marks. These question marks will be your
treasures. There is no teacher in this workshop. Each of you
will find your own answers through your body, experience and
emotion. We shall work in pairs, and in the group you can
share your treasure with others. This workshop is not
especially for dancers or actors, it is for all those people,
who want to get impression through their body in the forest.
Key-words: Manipulation, Blind walk, Imitation, Breath etc.
Élboly
The Theatre of Joy made by Attila
Szabó, (Romania) István Molnár and Artúr
Vranyecz
This year they plan to make sit-coms (situation comedies)
including 5-6 episodes, which would be shot in the front of
the public, and finally there will be a non-stop projection
on the last day. Once Jerry Seinfeld said… … in one of his
humorous introductions that he hated those serials in which
each part was not an independent unit, and sometimes they
extended it over to the next episode, and the spectator was
informed about this by the inscription: “to be continued”. Of
course this cannot be guessed at the beginning or at
half-time and not even with two minutes before the end...
People just stand and gaze at and they are alarmed: “Oops! In
an instant it starts the news, and Timmy is yet in the depth
of the cleft! People and scriptwriters!!! In five
minutes-time Timmy cannot be rescued from the cleft!!! Let's
do something together!!!” And then the inscription TO BE
CONTINUED appears on the screen rigorously and
dispassionately. Jerry continues the chain of ideas saying
that according to him the good serial does not use the phrase
“to be continued”, but it is built up of well-constructed and
finished episodes ending in a bang, since this is its main
good point. This is the reason for its existence. In case one
would like to see something that is long, endless, boring,
always cut into pieces and stretching from day to day, then
there is one's own life!!! For this reason people should not
watch TV, above all not serials!!! By the way! Two penguins
are in the desert. One of them keeps clasping an electric
stove under his arms, and the other one tries to pull a
tortoise out of its shell. The one with the stove tells to
the other with the tortoise: “Pal, if my eyes do not deceive
me... To be continued
Philosophy Workshop
Led by Zsolt Pálfalusi
(Hungary)
In the Pilosophy Workshop we discuss two basic texts:
1) M. Heidegger: Art and Space
2) G. Deleuze: The Plain and the Grooved
Both of the texts are excellent to become immersed in the way
the slogan of the camp indicates. The seminar permits to get
an insight in the problem of space harped on by the
philosophers, the base of which is not the concept of space
known from macro physics, but the space known by the art,
which has to take into consideration the space of “soul”,
“existence” and “intellect”, and also the problem of their
taking shape (in space) in an artistic way.
Crafts Workshop
Led by Melinda Csergő
(Gyergyószárhegy/ Lazarea, Romania)
Space in itself is a concept hard to define, most often it
becomes concrete through a relationship. People's basic
motivation is to “inhabit” somehow the space used by them,
and to form it, so that the given medium can represent its
user. This is true also for objects and “dresses”. We
decorate ourselves/our space with objects/materials according
to our character, personality and mood. How can one
monopolise the space? To what extent one can make it a
symbolic one? How can be space projected to objects, and how
can one produce its variations? All these with raw materials
as wool, yarn, wood and metal. With these techniques we can
make experiments since this camp gives opportunity to create
really according to our ideas, and it is possible to decorate
our milieu with objects that are rightly the elements of our
relationship to space.
SPACE in the Arts – Professional Forum
Lecturers: Alexandru Antik, Zsombor
Bartos-Elekes, Zsolt Fekete, Zsolt Gyenge,
Zsolt Irsai, Áron Kovács, László Mátyás, Béla Mester, Zsolt
Pálfalusi, Szacsva y Pál,
Gusztáv Ütő, Zoltán Vécsi Nagy Agreements with other
lecturers are going on as well.
The sponsors of this year's camp are:
The Romanian Government, Department of Inter-Ethnic
Relations
National Agency for Youth Initiatives (Romania)
The National Cultural Fund (Hungary)
The Homeland Fund (Hungary)
The Communitas Foundation
A LOT of text need to be translated from Hungarian...
The archives are accessible on the Hungarian (and partly on
the Romanian) version of the site. (Only links listed on the
top of this page are available in English. You still can
visit the Hungarian version, and look at some nice
pictures.)
If you can help translating email us at
minimumparty_gmail_com.
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