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| Ági Szalóki |
An exhibition entitled Revolutionary Voices: Performing Arts in Central and Eastern Europe in the 1980s will open at New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
"The exhibition will illustrate the different ways in which performances attempted to break the boundaries set by the Communist state's culture politicians, aesthetes and censors: Audience and Stage, Barriers: Censorship and other power-games, Theatre outside the theatre, Western aesthetic tradition of absurd, punk, etc... permeates into the aesthetic of official communist art, social realism, and Breaking Taboos," the exhibition organisers say.
The Hungarian Cultural Center in New York will open an exhibition called From Budapest to Bauhaus in the same week. MoMA will host a symposium connected to the exhibition.
The Galapagos Art Space will present the last Cabaret Magyar.
Fire + Fire, a collaboration between African American artists and Hungarian Gypsy musicians, will take place at Manhattan's Peter Norton Symphony Space.
The concert's organisers called it a "historic meeting of musical sympathies when nine Hungarian Gypsy musicians meet with seven of their Black American counterparts to interrogate a history of mutual oppression and silences."
The Hungarian performers will include Béla Szakcsi Lakatos, the singer Ági Szalóki, Mihály Farkas on cimbalom, Richárd Farkas on bass and Róbert Farkas on violin and accordion. They will be joined by the bassist Melvin Gibbs, Valerie June on guitar, banjo and vocals, and the drummer David Pleasant.
Photo: MTI
