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— they thereby consciously placed their group and activity within the field of
ecological activism. On March 15, 2020, they presented eco poetry and a thematic
slam poetry competition with the title The Sea Has Risen.
In October 2020, during the online conference of the Hungarian Society for
Literary History with the title The Climate Policy of Literature, they staged a
session in which contemporary Hungarian poets discussed the definition of
eco-poetry and the possibilities and tasks of poets and poetry. A well-known
Hungarian literary periodical (Forrds) devoted its summer 2020 thematic issue
to climate questions. From autumn 2020, well-known Hungarian artists were
asked about the issues of climate consciousness and the changes it had brought
to their lives, within the Greenterview series.” Their joint project with the Csiky
Gergely Theatre of Kaposvar, a video series of poems by contemporary poets
andauthors related to environmental questions, was elaborated by actors and
actresses.”
An innovative event of the Hungarian art scene was the exhibition titled Strength
of Plants (MANK — Hungarian Artists’ Public Benefit Co., Szentendre, 2021), the
closing event of which also involved the members of the group Artists for Climate
Consciousness. In addition to art, they also do scholarly work. They took part in
organizing the major conference titled Anthropocene prospects: examining the age
of humans from post-anthropocentric perspectives (Debrecen University, 2022),
where questions of eco-art (film, literature, performance, eco-fiction, etc.) were
also present.
MANK Galéria
Figure 8. Poster of the exhibition of Power of Plants.
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1/2164725333667140.
Below, three young Hungarian artists will introduce themselves and their
environment-related works. Fanni Sall is a member of the Eco-community of
Nyim, Magdolna Toth is a doctoral candidate at Pécs University’s Faculty of Art,
and Hajnal Gyeviki is a student at MOME. They were asked to pick two of their
relevant works and describe them. The quotations preceding their texts are taken
from conversations or correspondence with them.
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