Are we able to express and unravel our personal and common traumas? How do we utilize and how do we exploit them? What are the successes and failures of contemporary Central and Eastern European literature: what does it withhold and what does it try to talk about? What are the common points and differences of the attempts of answers on the experiences of traumas between young thinkers writing in Czech, Slovakian, Romanian, Serbian, Croatian and Hungarian?
Questions rising along the topic of traumas on the personal and community level will be attempted to be answered with our guests on a two-day international gathering organized by the Association of Young Writers – Central and Eastern European writers, poets and thinkers introduce themselves to the Budapest audience on 14-15th February in the alternative cultural centre Fogas Ház. Talks and readings will be followed by the traditional Fényírás (Lightwriting) party of the Association with installations and screenings inspired by the works of the invited artists.
Program:
„Give us this day our everyday trauma”
2013. February 14-15. Fogas Ház
February 14. Anaesthetized areas
Networks of great silences and overtalkings sorround our everydays about personal, physical, mental, family, community and social traumas. One of the most effective ways of living together with our traumas is anaesthesia. On the first day of the gathering, we will attempt to push out encapsulated traumasymptoms from their paralysed state.
Section 1: Personal Spaces – 17.00-18.30
The topics of the first section will take the memories of childhood, the blind spots of personality, the hardness of creating an own language, shame and the walls in the mind into consideration. What are the contemporary poetic solutions to map and express these problems?
Participants: Varga Edgár, Adam Borzic (CZ), Sopotnik Zoltán, Sinisa Tuci (SRB)
Moderator: Varga Betti
Section 2: Locations of Memory – 18.30-20.00
After having a look on personal spaces, we will attempt to map the mental and physical landscapes providing the everyday battlefields of our collective senses. This discussion aims to create a mutual topography from different historical-sociological narratives, which would make us able to have a common sense of speaking.
Participants: Corina Bernic (RO), Liska Márton, Jónás Hajek (CZ), Csehy Zoltán
Moderator: Borbáth Péter
Február 15. – Dissolvations, Breakthroughs
Is there a possibility of a language which could provide us the hope of reconquering our common spaces? The topic of this is day is the conditions of trespasses between narratives; we will also debate on the possible directions and shapes of the interpretational and semantical frames of our traumas in the close future.
Section 1: Narratives of Trauma – 17.00-18.30
What are the tensions in between, and how do the positions of observer and observed converse in the identity narratives of Central and Eastern Europe? Is there a critical concept of politics at all which could provide a liveable phenomenon of the homeland? Participants of the section will collide mental, spiritual and material-social approaches.
Participants: Florin Poenaru (RO), Gagyi Ágnes, Mikola Gyöngyi, Győrffy Ákos, Michal Hvorecky (SLK)
Moderator: Szőllőssy Balázs
Section 2: Perpectives of Renewal – 18.30-20.00
The final discussion aims to unfold the perspectives of the future: the preriquisite of this has to be the renewal and modification of the common memories and the interpretations of the past. The stake of discussion between the multitude of Central and Eastern European traumanarratives stands in the question wether can resolve our inveterate prejudices by elevating them – or at least get a little closer to each other.
Participants: Razvan Tupa (RO), Borbély András, Kovács Mónika, Marko Pogacar (HR)
Moderator: Kollár Árpád