György Galántai was greeted on his 70th birthday with this surprise video, which is an edited version of more than 70 short interviews made with his Hungarian colleagues, fellow artists and friends, from both the past and the present.
The interviewees were asked questions such as "Who is György Galántai?", "How did you get to know György Galántai?", "Could you share any personal stories you have that are connected with him?"
The video was shown on the surprise event of 17 June 2011 in the LABOR, after the 6th NMA (Foundation for National Art) per diem award ceremony.
Endre Szkárosi greeted György Galántai with a performance and Viktor Kótun (in the name of Plágium 2000) presented him with the surprise Mail Art works sent by the international members of "the Galántai network" in response to the "Who is György Galántai?" call. The guests were able to see these works projected onto the walls during the event.
Interviewees in alphabetical order (and further excerpts of the individual video interviews)
Katalin Aknai – art
historian – [video interview]
Iván Angelus – dancer,
choreographer
Anikó B. Nagy – art
historian – [video interview]
Ágnes Bárdos Deák –
singer, musician – [video interview]
Sándor Bernáth(y) –
visual artist, musician – [video interview]
Judit Bodor – art
historian – [video interview]
Péter Bokros –
visual artist, founder of Inconnu Group – [video interview]
Kriszta Dékei – art
historian
Orshi Drozdik –
visual artist
István efZámbó –
visual artist, musician – [video interview]
Dezső Ekler – architect – [video interview]
László feLugossy –
visual artist, musician – [video interview]
László Földényi F. –
aesthete, writer, critic, translator – [video interview]
Ferenc Friedrich –
sculptor – [video interview]
László Garaczi –
writer – [video interview]
Tibor Gáyor – architect,
visual artist
Judit Geskó – art
historian – [video interview]
Athéna Görög –
cultural tv editor, reporter – [video interview]
Attila Grandpierre –
musician, astronomer – [video interview]
Zsolt Gyarmati –
visual artist – [video interview]
Péter György –
aesthete, writer, critic – [video interview]
István Halas – photographer
Dóra Halasi –
archivist, art historian – [video interview]
András Halász –
visual artist – [video interview]
József Havasréti –
communication researcher– [video interview]
Bea Hock – curator –
[video interview]
Roddy Hunter – performance
artist
John P. Jacob –
visual artist – [video interview]
Zoltán Jeney – composer
József Juhász R. –
poet, performer, multimedia artist – [video interview]
Tímea Junghaus – art
historian – [video interview]
Tamás Kaszás –
intermadia artist – [video interview]
Béla Kelényi – visual
artist, poet, orientalist
Katalin Keserü – art
historian – [video interview]
Gábor Klaniczay –
historian – [video interview]
Júlia Klaniczay –
art writer, editor, cofounder of Artpool – [video interview]
Péter Klaniczay –
architect – [video interview]
Mihály Kornis –
writer, theatre director – [video interview]
Endre Kukorelly –
writer – [video interview]
László L. Simon –
writer, poet, cultural politician – [video interview]
András Lengyel –
visual artist – [video interview]
László Lugosi Lugo –
photographer
Dóra Maurer – visual
artist – [video interview]
Éva Molnár –
librarian, art historian – [video interview]
Péter Müller Sziámi –
poet, singer
Pál Nagy – writer,
visual poet – [video interview]
Endre Lehel Paksi –
art historian – [video interview]
Tibor Papp – visual
poet, writer – [video interview]
Miklós Peternák – art
historian
András Petőcz – writer, poet – [video interview]
László Rajk – architect
György Rőczei – visual artist
[video interview]
Katarina Šević – intermedia artist
SI-LA-GI – visual artist – [video interview]
Zsolt Sőrés – musician, aesthete – [video interview]
János Sugár – media
artist – [video interview]
Emese Süvecz – art
historian – [video interview]
Róbert Swierkiewicz
– visual artist – [video interview]
Ákos Székely – visual poet,
writer, translator
János Szikora –
theatre director – [video interview]
Endre Szkárosi – poet,
art writer, performer – [video interview]
Tamás Szőnyei – journalist – [video interview]
Ádám Tábor – poet
Erzsébet Tatai – art historian – [video interview]
Gábor Tóth – media artist– [video interview]
Rudolf Ungváry – writer, information engineeer – [video interview]
Tibor Várnagy – visual artist – [video interview]
János Vető – visual artist, musician, photographer – [video interview]
Mihály Víg – musician – [video interview]
Anna Wessely –
sociologist, art historian – [video interview]
Pál Závada – writer, editor, sociologist – [video interview]