Publications
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
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
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
The Jewellery box / Somewhere
‘Somewhere’ is an inspiring collection of stories about migration. Written from 20 women’s perspectives, it brings a refreshing and uniting voice to this compelling and trending topic. More people are likely to be migrating now than at any other time
The Jewellery box / Somewhere
‘Somewhere’ is an inspiring collection of stories about migration. Written from 20 women’s perspectives, it brings a refreshing and uniting voice to this compelling and trending topic. More people are likely to be migrating now than at any other time
Editor: Otherness and the Performing Arts
Otherness and the Performing Arts Contributors: Adam Czirak, David Schwartz, Azadeh Sharifi, Emily Hunka, Marco Galea, Oroszlán Anikó, Marie Bennett, Eszter Horváth Edited by Rita Sebestyén and Matthias Stephan introduction Re/shaping Otherness is the focus of the current, special issue
Editor: Otherness and the Performing Arts
Otherness and the Performing Arts Contributors: Adam Czirak, David Schwartz, Azadeh Sharifi, Emily Hunka, Marco Galea, Oroszlán Anikó, Marie Bennett, Eszter Horváth Edited by Rita Sebestyén and Matthias Stephan introduction Re/shaping Otherness is the focus of the current, special issue
Before It Is Too Late
Social sensitivity, synchronicity and participatory aspects of Scandinavian culture, with a special outlook on the oeuvre of Thierry Geoffroy, Colonel Spaces for social-artistic interactions, sensitivity towards sustainable processes and the environment, collaborative, participative education and arts, the taste for interruptive
Before It Is Too Late
Social sensitivity, synchronicity and participatory aspects of Scandinavian culture, with a special outlook on the oeuvre of Thierry Geoffroy, Colonel Spaces for social-artistic interactions, sensitivity towards sustainable processes and the environment, collaborative, participative education and arts, the taste for interruptive
Transgressing Spaces, Genres and Gender
The CPH Stage Festival, 11-25 June, 2015, in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2015, the Copenhagen Stage Festival presented nearly one hundred performances and events, lectures, site-specific and audio-walks, multi-sensory experiences, public parties, and a theatre flea market. Almost half of the
Transgressing Spaces, Genres and Gender
The CPH Stage Festival, 11-25 June, 2015, in Copenhagen, Denmark. In 2015, the Copenhagen Stage Festival presented nearly one hundred performances and events, lectures, site-specific and audio-walks, multi-sensory experiences, public parties, and a theatre flea market. Almost half of the