INTERPRETATION 1: OPEN SITUATION

Professor in Fine Arts, known for action paintings, live and video performances, where he explores his specific strength of personal presence in different, mostly absurd situations. Active in public since the 70’s, performing Dawn at Kassel Documenta in 1987, working solo, but also in various group projects, brings collaboration with Ágnes Éva Molnár (*1980 Hungary) media artist, working in genres of photography, video and performance art, with interest in the themes such as gender inequality, violation of human rights and power relations in society. In La Santa, she visualizes the social expectations towards women in the form of a fictious female hero.
Together, they perform on topics of male-female relations, as in Evolution or Freestyle Swimming series. Both live in Budapest.

Lives and works in Budapest and Puerto Vallarta (Mexico), is an intermedia-oriented performer, poet and art-organizer. He has performed in hundreds of performances around the world and published six books of experimental poetry. Since 1987 he has been active as a curator, publisher, workshop facilitator, editor. He has organized 30 international performance art festivals under the Transart Communication banner. Since 2009 he has conducted dozens of performance art workshops in Slovakia, Chile, Israel, India, Mexico, Hong Kong and China. Since 2011 he has been working with long duration performance projects such as Where are you Piri about unconditional love (since 2017), Made in Czechoslovakia in 1922 travelling with grandpa’s suitcase (since 2018), Paranormal Sport Activity (since 1996). Another one of his significant areas of focus is ad-hoc performance in public spaces. He represents Kassák Intermedia Creativity Centre in Nové Zámky, Slovakia.

The main themes for her include identity, religion and relationships. She transcends the boundaries of reality, disrupting common situations with incomprehensible irrational phenomena, thus letting the subconscious speak through archetypes. She combines new media with archaic media, such as astrology, magic and fairy tales, i.e. Personal Tarot (since 2007). As a Fortune-teller in the TV show Artmix, or in Treasure (2005) she even examines the social critique, but mainly corresponds with personal mythology on the basis of feelings of motherhood in combination and comparison with ancient myths, fertility cults and witchcraft. She often organizes co-operations with other artists. In Cluster Body 2018 (together with Jana Orlová) two opposite parts of psyche are fighting with ego. These are two strong female archetypes, relatives of fight and making love, in conjunction of an inner healing process. Tension Relay (2018) is a collective performance reflecting post human tension, identity research, reclaiming emotions, reinvention of love as a common prayer for civilization. Theatrum Mundi (since 2016) project introduces art as a living process, building on the principles of Psychomagic. A multimedia collective performance experiment displays a model of the universe metaphorically as an endless circle of life, where everyone is a co-creator in open organic form of living organism.

For her, performance is live poetry. Her main focus includes her physical experience and female sexuality. Married to Jakub Orel Tomáš, they performed together in Art of Dying (2010), In Bed We Trust (2011) or Picnic (2012), since their split they both perform solo. Jana during Memories of Sacrificial Rituals (2013) reminds us of Joan Jonas with the mirror and Marina Abramoviè by cutting her underbelly; in Scallop (2013) she got free inspiration from Interior Scroll by Carolee Schneemann and in Video NoD (2015) she covered her naked lap with a video display of TV Bra by Charlotte Moorman. She collaborated with Filip Turek (*1968) on Rape Face (2015) and has completed the Body Cluster (2018) project with Darina Alster. In the Maqlu Annual Burning series (2018), she produced an old-Babylonian text dedicated to ritual protection to avert adverse circumstances, a different site-specific concept referring to various spiritual traditions. She is also engaged as a curator and editor.