Zita Szenteczki and Patrik Kelemen: songs - Performative Gala with Special Guests
Theater
Pop
Zita Szenteczki and Patrik Kelemen: songs - Performative Gala with Special Guests
This programme is held in Hungarian.
The House of Music periodically shares curatorial tasks with an artist, and the next host of such a Curatorial Weekend will be Zita Szenteczki and Patrik Kelemen. They will present a performative gala show titled "Songs" filled with star guests on two consecutive evenings.
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The performance is a concert-performance that primarily uses the mediums of music, singing, and dance.
Our hypothesis is that while listening to Hungarian underground music from the 70s and 80s, we feel a deep identification with the nihilism they sing about. It feels good to identify with it. It feels good that it hurts. Through identification, we are not alone; the shared dissolution and belonging provide solace against loneliness. How long is it good to wallow in this? How long is it good to emotionally identify with something that poisons us? Slowly dosed arsenic – self and mutual poisoning.
The origin of the Kelemen-Szenteczki dialogue is a conversation in the kitchen of a small French town, where Sz. recalls how much she loves the sinking yet sweet mood that these songs exude, to which K. replies that he thinks it's sick. This is how the discourse begins, which turns into this exploratory work.
This music provokes anger in Patrik Kelemen and bittersweet nostalgia in Zita Szenteczki. The project aims, through dialogue, to revisit our musical roots and to understand which still relevant aspects we carry with us today. Therefore, the evening seeks to explore the socio-cultural milieu in which these songs were born.
Szenteczki is an indispensable figure in Hungarian theater life, working continuously as a director since 2015; Kelemen is a dancer-creator, who lived and worked in Budapest since 2017. In the hope of a healthier social structure and more sustainable art financing system, they emigrated to Belgium in 2023.
We will sing existing songs, listen to them again with the audience, and then, through a punk ritual, purify them - along with ourselves and the audience. Invited guest musicians, who were involved at the birth of the referenced bittersweet songs, will participate in this.
After all this, we give way to the second part of the evening, where the creators-performers, as a response to their current life situations and cultural milieus, will perform the songs acquired during the rehearsal process.
The goal of the evening is to sensitively reflect on our shared cultural roots and to achieve a rewriting through conscious re-listening: emotional understanding through each other.
Deeply empathetic, attentive, songs.
This programme is held in Hungarian.
The House of Music periodically shares curatorial tasks with an artist, and the next host of such a Curatorial Weekend will be Zita Szenteczki and Patrik Kelemen. They will present a performative gala show titled "Songs" filled with star guests on two consecutive evenings.
Rock Troubadours (US, 70s): CSNY, Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, Leonard Cohen, Van Morrison, Roy Harper
