h.arta Group In a context in which the financial crisis is fueling sexism, racism and nationalism and in which the neocon discourse on religion and the traditional family is becoming more visible and legitimate, what role could art play? What kind of art would be more effective? How could art (and cultural work in general) be used as a methodology which explains contradictions and subverts inequalities? How could art be used to develop prototypes which can be improved or freely appropriated by others? How does one analyze the complex and contradictory position of the artist who is aware of his/her …

by Yvette Feuer My name is Yvette Feuer and I am an actor and what we call in Hungary, a drama pedagogue. After working for more than 10 years as an actor in the alternative theatre field in Budapest, Hungary, in the year 2001I left for the USA. I was extremely lucky and happy to receive the Fulbright Grant and it enabled me to do what I really wanted to do: to start again and study, study, study. I went to a small, liberal arts college where I graduated in 2003 receiving an MFA in Theater. Sarah Lawrence College, located …

by Marius Bogdan Tudor and Mihai Lukács The post-World War 2 modernizing drive of the Romanian state manifested itself in two essential policies: industrialization and the democratization of culture. The two approaches were complementary: first of all, industrialization offered the possibility of involving a mostly rural workforce in the production sector in order to rebuild a war-torn economy on the basis of scientific Socialism and, in the long run, the possibility of a state-fueled proletarian class. Second of all, building an infrastructure of cinemas, theaters, performance halls (the future “union houses”) and libraries at the national level, doubled up by …