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236 JUDIT FARKAS — 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. Source: https://www.facebook.com/alkotomuveszet.hu/photos/gm.33677 150159296 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. » — https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id= 1000667 14901803 3° https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFK2-zAMsor7 Ty Vaps8xK2Q
