APPLICATION RESULTS ANNOUNCEMENT
The curators of the Artpool Foundation are pleased to announce the results of the competition for the processing of Endre Szkárosi's oeuvre.
Contrary to the original call, two applications will be funded, both in line with the call for research grants, one by Balázs Kerber and the other by Zsolt Sőrés.
Balázs Kerber's proposal is a thorough and interesting study of Szkárosi's intermedial poetry, with a focus on the Italian and Hungarian avant-garde tradition and influence, and the interoperability of languages, accompanied by a plan for ongoing publication.
Zsolt Sőrés, who is the only one to have chosen to work on "Szkárosi and Collective Spaces", has presented a very deep and convincing research plan, which is also linked to his DLA research. The planned context is interesting, and as he is an artist himself, the academic elaboration is expected to be enriched with a special point of view.
We thank everyone for their work and hope that those whose applications are not funded may be able to use the ideas and insights described in their applications for further work.
THE WINNING CANDIDATES:
Balázs Kerber (1990) poet, Italianist, literary translator
He holds a BA degree in Classical Languages and Cultures - Classical Philology from ELTE BTK in 2013 and an MA degree in Italian Language, Literature and Culture with honours from ELTE BTK in 2016. Between 2010 and 2015, he was a member of the Eötvös Collegium's Classical Philology and Italian Workshop.
In 2014, he completed an Erasmus semester at the University of Bologna, where he studied Modern Italian Literature. He completed his doctoral studies at the Doctoral School of Literature at ELTE between 2016 and 2020. In March 2022, he defended his doctoral thesis entitled "Art as an Island - A Poetic Examination of the Works of Luigi Pirandello and Miklós Szentkuthy in the Mirror of Modernity" with summa cum laude. Besides his academic activities, he also works as a poet and translator. He has published two books of poetry (Alszom rendszertelenül, JAK-füzetek, 2014, Conquest, Jelenkor, 2019) and is currently working on his third volume. His poems and translations appear regularly in print and online literary journals. He is poetry editor of the literary journal Apokrif. His interests include the nature and functioning of inter-artistic experiences and intermedial spaces in general.
(Photo: János Hegedűs)
Zsolt Sőrés (Budapest, 1969)
experimental composer, musician, sound and intermedia artist, writer, cultural historian, active for more than thirty years. He has been living in Berlin since 2021, when he was awarded the Music and Sound Art Scholarship of the Berliner Künstlerprogramm des DAAD. From 1995-2011 he was involved in the organisation of experimental music festivals and sound art series (Szünetjel Fesztivál; Relatív /Át/Hallások). From 2003-2010 he was curator of the Invisible Films Club, which found a home at the Ludwig Museum. He has been teaching at the Liszt Ferenc University of Music since 2014 and at the University of Pécs since 2019, specialising in electronic music media art. In 2014 he curated the first international professional sound installation exhibition in Hungary at the Műcsarnok (Other Sounds - On the Edge of the Perceptible). He is currently a student of the DLA programme at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts. His research interests include the aesthetics, practice and sociology of experimental music and sound art in a materialist sound ontology and interdisciplinary approach.
(Photo by Eunice Maurice / DAAD, Berlin, 2023)