Mészáros Júlia, N.: 35 éves a Győri Művésztelep. Történeti áttekintés, művek, életrajzi adatok, beszámoló a jubileumi találkozóról - Győri művészettörténet 4. (Győr, 2003)
Országos Szimpózium Találkozó, Győr
the summer, yet he asked the universities of art to support their operation, and he expects an official agreement of co-operation from the universities. Péter Márkus mentioned that students must apply individually to obtain assistance with participation in artists’ symposia, in the competition of the National Cultural Funds. Károly Hantos agreed to get in touch and remarked that there is a possibility of support for tertiary education in the foundation document of the National Cultural Funds but another fund should be established for graduate training at artists’ symposia. The fund for financing the research of overlaps of art and science may constitute further resource for the artists’ symposia. The Academy of Sciences also used to be the Academy of Arts and Sciences a long time ago, and what is more, academies function like this even today. In Hungary, however, arts are involved in other sciences, whereas the field of science has become a separate section. The task of tertiary education of art and the organizations concerned is clarification and rethink of notions and categories. The introduction of the field of research of art, the acceptance of media of art and disciplines of science as fields of research of art could help to resolve the problem. Artists symposia must be included in research and development, in the EU their percentage is 50-50, therefore a shift in this direction is also to be expected in Hungary. The harmonization should be directed this way. A further important issue is that the artists’ symposia should achieve classification as innovation because art is a very important part of innovation, a shift in attitudes would, however, be necessary for the acceptance of this. The antecendent of every development is thinking, that is culture is not a subsequent ornament but every change begins there. Joint action must be taken in this spirit, and it is the movement of symposia that could do so. Emese Kormos, the secretary of the International Ceramic Studio of Kecskemét mentioned the good example of Kecskemét, where the students of the Applied Institute of the Sopron University specialized in silicates can work at the symposium for three years following the first two-year basic training. The financing of this co-operation could be best solved on the money gained by the universities in competitions. In connection with the realization of the Europe Sculptural Park, István Ézsiás spoke about the fact that the artists’ symposia had been driven out of the money-making fight, therefore they must apply another kind of tactics if they wanted to survive. 320
