Artist statement from original Festival website:

Awakening to strife – I find I’m in a cage.
Oh, free and happy life! Oh, birds, flying
anywhere they like!
Colours, movement, reason lost – they rebound off walls that close them all around.
My desires rot my bones from deep inside me.
Time is a torturer who, spying me suffering, slows deliberately down but sprints past, if at last, just once I – taste the fruits of glory.
Resignation is a mouthful of the future
bordering on madness.
Alive, I gradually die, and now there is no hope. But only – to be reborn – in another life.
That will be the Day of Birth –
Of Re-Genesis –
For all the Earth.
Oh, Happy Birth Day!

A world premiere for the NRLA

István Kovács, b. 1964.  Papier maché statues/installations since 1986. Performance Art since 1989.

Selected Recent Credits: 
2005 – Vazdin, Croatia,  The Synagogue – dani hrvatskog performancea festival. 2006 – Broellin, Germany; Schloss Broellin & Szczecin, Poland, Galeria OFFicyna. 14th Castle of Imagination, International Performance Art Festival. Curator Wladislaw Kazimierczak. 2008 – Szentendre, Hungary.  The Mill of Art. 8th International Performance & Heavy Music Festival. Curator: István Zámbó. Visegrád, Hungary. King Matthew Museum. XX. Ekszpanzió. Curator: Peter Mikola Németh. Budapest, Hungary. Hungarian Workshop Gallery. “Sail Running”. 2009 – Budapest, Hungary, The Ditch Club, 6th Dance & Performance Festival of Budapest, “Határvonal”. Curator: Zsófia Jávor. Baja, Hungary, Petőfi Island, “Performance In Memory of G. A.” Koprovnica, Croatia, “My Land, Staglinec”, Curator: Vlasta Delimar “My Land Is Your Land”. Zsámbék, Hungary, Ex-Rocket Base. “Back Into Myself.” Curator: Bálint Szombathy.

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