ÁRON BIRTALAN
Áron Birtalan
WHAT IS HAPPENING HERE? Áron Birtalan (Budapest, 1990) is an artist who makes playful experiences in everyday environments. Working together with participants and their imagination as an artistic medium, he explores the nature of human interaction by facilitating a collaborative practice, called Transformation Games. Through his work, Áron encourages people to tap into a playful territory, where art, games, and magic mingle. In this territory, one has the possibility to create and experience new ways of seeing, being and new understandings, that otherwise would not occur. His work draws upon the history of transformation through rituals, and as a whole, rituals’ role in society. He currently lives in the Netherlands, running the experimental platform Secret Fiction. With a background in music, writing, and role-playing, Áron is interested in delivering his practice outside of the conventional realms of art and into alternative platforms of politics and education. He is also active as a musician and co-runs a threeweek children’s fantasy camp in rural Hungary.
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