How can traditional icon painting connect with the landscape of Lake Balaton and the daily rhythms of Benedictine life? Artist Sanja Dragutinovic Komatina is exploring these connections during her MON-ART residency at Tihany Benedictine Abbey in Hungary, bringing together historical research, traditional craftsmanship and her experiences of the place.
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Listening to Tihany: The First Chapter of Edoardo Bosi’s MON-ART Residency
At Tihany Benedictine Abbey, overlooking Lake Balaton, artist and musician Edoardo Bosi has been getting to know the peninsula through its sounds. From the rhythms of daily prayer to recordings made in the surrounding fields and woods, the first phase of his MON-ART residency has centred on listening, observation and finding a different pace of life.
What happens when a festival not only brings performances to a town, but also creates opportunities for local communities to meet, collaborate and create together?
We explored this through the programmes of this year’s TeatRom Festival and the project’s closing conference, which marked an important milestone in the three-year SPARSE Plus project. Both the personal experiences of project manager Annamária Jacsó and the insights of community development expert Márton Beke demonstrate that the power of culture extends far beyond the performances themselves.
“The emphasis is not on expectation itself, but on trust.”
Abigél Varga was the fourth person to join the creative process of composing a collaborative musical piece using the “Cadavre Exquis” method as part of the “Mind the Gap” project. We talked with her about what it feels like to join a work that is already taking shape, how she found her own musical voice within it, and why knowing just a single detail of the story offered her both freedom and inspiration.
Learning from Each Other: A Job-Shadowing Journey with Sparse PLUS
Over the weekend, the artistic director of Utcaszínházi Alkotóközösség Association, Balázs Simon, and three promoters of the Sparse PLUS project — Norbert Káló (Szendrőlád), Julianna Budai (Borsodbóta), and Éva Gulyásné (Sajókaza) — visited Cluj-Napoca and Cehu Silvaniei for an inspiring job-shadowing visit.
“My biggest hope was that the program I helped planning would have a long term impact on the participants career paths” – interview with Márton Csuzi, external expert and curator of ESR
As part of our European Solidarity Residencies project, two young professionals visited us for a one-month residency at rhe end of last year to learn about the local cultural scene and Pro Progressione’s place and role in it – Márton Csuzi, our external expert and mentor guided them during the whole residency journey. We asked Márton, to summarize his experiences in this interview:
“It’s hard to strike a balance between continuing to talk about music and speaking out on socially important issues.”
Virág Anna Virág is the first female composer to have contributed to a collaborative piece created using the Cadavre Exquis method within the Mind the Gap project. We spoke with her about her creative methods, her comfort zone, mathematics, and what it’s like to make a name for herself as a female composer in Europe today, focusing on her sequence titled Never Heard.
“I saw a group of highly motivated emerging professionals who needed support in translating strong values and concepts into feasible and sustainable professional pathways” – Daniel Valtueña
We have worked with Daniel Valtueña on several projects before – this time we invited him to the European Solidarity Residency as an external expert to enrich the participants’ work with his experience and insights. Daniel accompanied the work through three online sessions, about which we asked him in the following interview:
“A shared value base is essential, but differences are just as important”
As part of our European Solidarity Residencies project, two young professionals visited us for a one-month residency at rhe end of last year to learn about the local cultural scene and Pro Progressione’s place and role in it. We asked them about their experiences in an interview. Now, read Raouf Moussa’s impressions of his time with us:
“I could feel how a cultural institution can create a real sense of belonging—not just for audiences, but for the artists themselves”
As part of our European Solidarity Residencies project, two young professionals visited us for a one-month residency at rhe end of last year to learn about the local cultural scene and Pro Progressione’s place and role in it. We asked them about their experiences in an interview. First, read Alma Kadic’s impressions of her time with us: