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Fejős Anna: Ethnically marked art and the burdens of the artist – The case of Roma in the Hungarian visual art scene 

 

Előadó: Fejős Anna (TK SZI)

Hozzászólók: Árendás Zsuzsanna (TK SZI) 

Időpont: 2022. március 24. csütörtök 13:00 

Helyszín: Az eseményt hibrid formában tartjuk meg.

Személyesen: Szociológiai Intézet 1097 Budapest Tóth Kálmán utca 4.;  B.1.15 tárgyaló

Online: Zoom link: 

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/83170551111?pwd=YmwwNVlJTWJGOW9aOVg3ajc4YXQrUT09

Passcode: 460771

 

Absztrakt: 

The field of arts and culture is a peculiar terrain for ethnic/racial minorities to develop professional trajectories, as enabling and disabling mechanisms are more difficult to grasp than in more stable and institutionally binding forms of career tracks. To explore the various challenges that artists of ethnic/racial minority background face today, this research aimed to unfold the shifting role of ‘ethnic difference’ in the Hungarian art scene and the opportunities and challenges that derive from this context for visual artists of Romani descent. Through ethnographic fieldwork and semi-structured interviews, the case study reveals three areas that present specific ‘burdens’ for individuals: sustaining a living, gaining recognition, and overcoming ethnic labeling. The contribution of the study is twofold. First, the focus on artists of Romani descent in Hungary extends the literature on minorities in the arts that has so far exclusively dealt with North American and Western-European contexts. Second, the analysis refines the theory of the ‘burden of representation’ (Mercer 1994) and highlights the interplay of social inequalities and processes of labeling.

Kulcsszavak: artistic trajectories; ethnically marked art; burden of representation; labelling; Roma; Central Eastern Europe