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Hello Edina, and welcome to Not RandomArt. The current issue is revolving around the problem of communication and identity. Is there any particular way you would describe your identity as an artist but also as a human being in dynamically changing, unstable times? In particular, does your cultural substratum/identity form your aesthetics?
Thank you NotRandomArt and hello NotRandomArt readers! I have to admit that the question about identity is as complex for me as identity itself. As for my identity or as a matter of fact anybody’s identity, it is ever-changing and fluid, taking various shapes, adapted and formed by the situations we are in, the decisions we make day by day, and how we see our identity after all. Probably both as an artist but most of all as a human being my identity is influenced by the unstable, insecure world we live in, the technological alienation of our modern times, without doubt it would be hard to disregard that massive factor, still for me identity as such is a matter, ungraspable and never solid or fixed. I imagine it as a formable elastic blob, being liable to change. This is why it is hard to tell anything ‘solid’ about the question of identity. I try to form my own by making adjustments, overcoming obstacles and eliminating the undesired elements, but in fact the very fight is that shapes you most, so the more challenge you take, the more you identity is formed, speaking from my perspective. And I do challenge myself, pushing my boundaries with the motto “if it doesn’t challenge you, it won’t change you”. But then again there are silent breaks in-between, when seemingly nothing happens. There is no particular way I would describe myself as an artist which would differ from being a human being. The demarcation line probably could be drawn by the need to create, to express what is inside me, to be present and alert, both perceptive and receptive, as I tend to put it. Being an artist means being human in the best and worst sense of the word, make use of every emotion, sensation either pleasant or unbearable to create something out of it. Every place, experience, face, person, situation can be an incentive to express what’s in you. Still sometimes creative energy is exhausted, and that is when you need to be patient and peaceful but ready for the next influx. If I work on myself, I work on my art, whatever it is and whatever form it takes. And to what extent my cultural background affects and forms my aesthetics? Belonging to the Hungarian minority in Serbia, to a certain degree my cultural background “leaks” from my artwork. On the other hand, I am trying to disregard culture as a personal factor. Rather, I tend to see it as a factor like any other. I try to stay clear of prejudice and categorization on any levels including cultural as well. Though it definitely gives me inspiration and topics to consider, for example, that was one of the main elements and the central ideas of the performance called De-labelling. I also write short poems for myself in Serbian that is not my native language, which actually gives me more freedom but impels me to be more disciplined at the same time. Culture is a vague, man-made term, and it is hard to grasp, so if it means using different languages, problems an individual faces, subject matters that it evokes, then yes, my aesthetics is formed by culture, seeing it more as a generic category rather than any specific culture. My works of art attempt at reflecting a general picture of the individual or the world, filtered through personal experience. For this reason, some of them are directly inspired by my own life, including cultural background as well, while some are taken to another level rendered broader and more general.
Would you like to tell us something about your artistic as well as life background? What inspired you to be in this artistic point in your life when you are now?
If I had to mark the very spot of getting interested in art, I would say in kindergarten when I was chosen for reciting poems. I have been in love with this form of expression, (poems) ever since. I started acting in my hometown in an amateur drama group. I recited poems at competitions and acted in the theatre simultaneously. Afterwards, I was part of an amateur drama group in Budapest for a year. In the following year I got admission to the University of Arts in Novi Sad, acting in Hungarian. After two years of studying acting, I decided to quit for personal reasons, because I refused to be restricted by other people’s opinion, mindsets, viewpoints, etc. For years I had almost no contact with the theatre or any performing arts, but in turn during that period I became more familiar with different forms of visual arts, such as painting, sculpture and printmaking techniques, which also could be noted as inspiration at this point. Later on, I also studied English literature that deepened my knowledge about literature and I had the chance to engage in academic research. For the topic of my Master’s thesis I chose Shakespearean Rewritings in the Theatre of the Absurd, and at the defense I had a performance summarizing the thesis that I am very proud of, since at the University of Philosophy (Novi Sad) it’s hardly common practice to have a performance. The turning point came in 2013 when I volunteered at a music festival of Alternative music, and this is the place where I met Ivana Inđin, a multidisciplinary artist, performer and activist, who had been working in that field of alternative theatre and performance for more than two decades. She invited me to be a member of her long-standing alternative group named Ogledalo (Novi Sad), which definitely had the greatest impact on me concerning my renewed interest in the theatre, but this time from a different angle. During the year-long work process with her and Ogledalo group at a series of workshops, I came across various till then unknown forms to me, like Butoh, audiovisual and sound effects, different techniques, non-classical elements and features. This is when I started to feel which direction I have to take in terms of art, but only after a year I started to engage more seriously in performance as a possible and viable form of expression. I attended a workshop on physical theatre and movement where I had a final presentation as a solo performance which I title Back to the roots. Since there were good feedbacks and mainly because it just felt right, I set out to create performances step by step inspired by life, mine and others’. And here I am now!