Bio
Artist-researcher & writer: Dr Rita Sebestyén is an artist-researcher and writer developing Embodied Artistic Research (EAR): a praxis that brings people, knowledge and action together for social impact. Her work creates temporary communities around shared questions, tasks and purposes, using
Bio
Artist-researcher & writer: Dr Rita Sebestyén is an artist-researcher and writer developing Embodied Artistic Research (EAR): a praxis that brings people, knowledge and action together for social impact. Her work creates temporary communities around shared questions, tasks and purposes, using
Publication list
Books Sebestyén, R, A tizennegyedik (The fourteenth). A collection of essays-short stories on human geography and Otherness). Ed. by Zsolt Láng, Bookart, Csíkszereda, 2010. Contributor to books Sebestyén, R, Mothers Days, Published by An Artist Residency in Motherhood, Printing Kreider, Pittsburgh,
Publication list
Books Sebestyén, R, A tizennegyedik (The fourteenth). A collection of essays-short stories on human geography and Otherness). Ed. by Zsolt Láng, Bookart, Csíkszereda, 2010. Contributor to books Sebestyén, R, Mothers Days, Published by An Artist Residency in Motherhood, Printing Kreider, Pittsburgh,
Embodied Artistic Research
Embodied Artistic Research (EAR) is a practice based research approach that uses artistic processes to explore complex human and social questions. EAR creates incubators for social healing: spaces where people can encounter different perspectives, question assumptions and develop new understandings
Embodied Artistic Research
Embodied Artistic Research (EAR) is a practice based research approach that uses artistic processes to explore complex human and social questions. EAR creates incubators for social healing: spaces where people can encounter different perspectives, question assumptions and develop new understandings
Featured in: Global Perspectives on Youth Arts Programs
How and Why the Arts Can Make a Difference by Frances Howard Featured in Global Arts Research My participatory youth workshops in Sideways Storytelling, one of the three pillars of Embodied Artistic Research, are featured as a case study in
Featured in: Global Perspectives on Youth Arts Programs
How and Why the Arts Can Make a Difference by Frances Howard Featured in Global Arts Research My participatory youth workshops in Sideways Storytelling, one of the three pillars of Embodied Artistic Research, are featured as a case study in
Szétszórt figyelmünk / Our Disordered Attention
Rita Sebestyén reviews Claire Bishop’s 2024 book, Disordered Attention. Játéktér, Spring, 2026 The book explores how our reception of contemporary art and performance has shifted, focusing specifically on the fragmentation and hybridisation of attention. Structured as four distinct essays, the
Szétszórt figyelmünk / Our Disordered Attention
Rita Sebestyén reviews Claire Bishop’s 2024 book, Disordered Attention. Játéktér, Spring, 2026 The book explores how our reception of contemporary art and performance has shifted, focusing specifically on the fragmentation and hybridisation of attention. Structured as four distinct essays, the
Vakfolt / Blind Spot
Published: 2022, Játéktér / Playing Area Blindspot is a series of 30 dialogues set in Eastern Europe at the turn of the millennium. A minority in her country of birth and an immigrant in the country she arrives in, a
Vakfolt / Blind Spot
Published: 2022, Játéktér / Playing Area Blindspot is a series of 30 dialogues set in Eastern Europe at the turn of the millennium. A minority in her country of birth and an immigrant in the country she arrives in, a
A tanár alakja / The Figure of the Teacher
In: Színház, civil társadalom és politikum | Írások, tanulmányok Kötő József emlékére, ed. Katalin Ágnes Barta, 2021, pp. 99-105 Re-published by Játéktér / Playing Area in 2022: Sebestyén Rita: A tanár alakja
A tanár alakja / The Figure of the Teacher
In: Színház, civil társadalom és politikum | Írások, tanulmányok Kötő József emlékére, ed. Katalin Ágnes Barta, 2021, pp. 99-105 Re-published by Játéktér / Playing Area in 2022: Sebestyén Rita: A tanár alakja
‘IF’: Planning, Research and Co-creation of an Existential Installation-performance
Hungarian Studies Yearbook Volume 1 (2019): Issue 1 (December 2019) DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/hsy-2019-0005 |Journal eISSN: 2668-7542 ABSTRACT: In her article “‘IF’: Planning, Research and Co-creation of an Existential Installation-performance” Rita Sebestyen offers an account of the research period and performances of the experimental, action-research
‘IF’: Planning, Research and Co-creation of an Existential Installation-performance
Hungarian Studies Yearbook Volume 1 (2019): Issue 1 (December 2019) DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/hsy-2019-0005 |Journal eISSN: 2668-7542 ABSTRACT: In her article “‘IF’: Planning, Research and Co-creation of an Existential Installation-performance” Rita Sebestyen offers an account of the research period and performances of the experimental, action-research
Mothers Days
Members of An Artist Residency in Motherhood were invited to simultaneously record the events of the July 15th, 2019, in as much or as little detail as they chose. The book shares accounts from 81 people* in 19 countries—all artists
Mothers Days
Members of An Artist Residency in Motherhood were invited to simultaneously record the events of the July 15th, 2019, in as much or as little detail as they chose. The book shares accounts from 81 people* in 19 countries—all artists