László Kerekes was a master of performances, conducted in various places, contexts and continents. László’s television helmets, which featured in many of them, were both atavistic and prescient.
László described his understanding of performances in an essay letter to a friend:
The improvising medium of performance, as I discovered a few years ago, results not only with ideas for inscenations on stage, but with spectacular possibilities in synthesis and integration of any temporarily or constantly usable means of communication by the acts of art. […]
On the place where this subject begins to be uncomfortable, we could start to speak about transcendence. That belongs also, nearly organic to this specific universe. Just no misunderstandings! In performance there is no manipulation and no illusions. As an expressive form, it is about something other. You will find both of these last mentioned factors wherever you turn, in the life itself and when you are viewing your own mirror.
László Kerekes, Essay about performance (2001, available here)
Below follows an overview of selected performances. To access information on the performances, press the button under each picture, to be linked to the original description prepared by László.
