In the Kovásznai Research Center researchers researching other researchers sometimes look inside, but sometimes also turn to others, when, for example, they talk to artists or let their fellow writers or poets perform at reading evenings. Colleagues and visitors who open their invitations and operate their filofax machine in the proper way could even take part twice…

On 8th November 2007 we organised a talk about how present day artists in their thirties and forties approach the artistic world of the 60’s and 70’s. What motivates young artists and animation film directors to reach back to certain works from Hungarian art of the 60’s and 70’s, and what methods do they use in doing so? What do they think the main components of the “historically effected consciousness” of an artist/work of art are? How do they reconstruct the artistic context of the recent past? Why do they think a piece of work/an entire oeuvre is worth re-contextualizing?
People who took part in the talk followed by a projection:
Bálint Havas (Kis Varsó group) – artist
Zsófia Péterffy – animation film director, screenwriter, artist
Bori Rutkai – artist, singer, gesamtkünstlerin
moderator: Brigitta Iványi-Bitter, art historian, representing the researchers researching other researchers

In June 2007 Ákos Szilágyi held a reading evening, which could also be interpreted in terms of music, including his breathing exercises for “beginner moribunds” and excerpts from his Scythian dictionary for the more advanced. The projection of Kovásznai’s painting film titled Ca Ira – Voice of Revolution (1972) accompanied Ákos Szilágyi’s performance and his reminiscences of György Kovásznai.