The international, interdisciplinary art camp, Sky Hill Land Art, was first organised in September 2022 as an extension of the series of extracurricular workshops on architecture that the Archaeus Foundation has been running for nearly twenty years. The camp, which now had readjusted its focus on the co-arts, was attended by students and teachers from the Academy of Arts in Novi Sad, the Western University of Timișoara and the Faculty of Architecture and Urbanism of PUT, the Ion Mincu University of Architecture in Bucharest and the EKCU – Institute of Fine Arts and Art Theory – Nature Art specialisation in Eger. The students of architecture, music and fine arts, organised in teams and coordinated by the teachers, combined the specificities of the different disciplines and created works of art in nature, using natural materials.
The second edition of the camp took place in June 2023, with professional visual artists, philosophers, musicians and architects assisted by students, taking a different approach but maintaining the educational profile of the previous events. This alternative teaching method was an attempt to create an intellectual and practical workshop, a search for ways of living and coexisting, of creating sacred spaces, with the aim of improving, restoring and harmonising the relationship between man and nature.
Both camps resulted in site-specific artworks ranging a wide variety of genres: video art and -essay, photo series, poetry, tales, song and sound art, architectural intervention, nature art, installation, performance, landscape action. The nature of the place, near the entrance to the Nera Valley in the Romanian part of Banat, in an isolated but stimulating rural and natural environment, encourages the participant to seek intensively for points of contact. For this reason, it is perhaps not an exaggeration to say that the SHiLA camps perpetuate and continue in a new place the spirit of thought that can be found in the outdoor actions of the SIGMA, MAMŰ and Yatoo groups, in the painters working at Poiana Mare and the art camps in Lăzarea, in the educational program of the Nature Art specialisation in Eger, and in the art camps and workshops at the Cave Dwellings in Noszvaj.
After Timișoara, Cluj-Napoca and Bucharest, the “fruits” of both camps will be presented together for the first time in Budapest.
Exhibiting artists: Adelina AFETELOR, Sergiu CĂTANĂ, Lena CIOBANU, Aleksandar DANGUZOV, Ion DOROBANȚU, FÜLEI Krisztina, Andra HRENCIUC, Bianca ICHIM, Mișu INDREI, Iulia IONESCU, Gustav JOVANOVIĆ, KATONA Erika, KOPACZ Kund, MÁTHÉ Anna, Anke MELLIN, Marius MICLĂUȘ, Alexandra MOCIOIU, Andreea NISTOR, Sonja RADAKOVIĆ, SCHLEMMER Laura, SIPOS Eszter, Helena SOLDAT, Călin STOIAN, Alin STOIANOVICI, Teodor TOMESCU, Gabriela UDREA, Marius VASILE, Miki VELCIOV, Eliza YOKINA, Elena VREMI