ART CHANGES EVERYTHING

Cabinet of Curiosities 2024
Artweek 29 June — 07 July 2024 IPOLYTARNÓC
Vernissage Performance by the Contemporary Culture SPACE - Lučenec 06 July 2024

The project is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.

OUR PARTNERS

In 2024 Field of Sparks invites you to climb into the imaginary closet with us in Ipolytarnóc and explore the vast variety of superstitions, natural phenomenons and peculiar characters through the lens of history, contemporary art, and architecture.

The 5th Artweek: CABINET OF CURIOSITIES will be a showcase of raw and fresh wisdom, truth, freedom, hard work, performance, laughter, and joy. Join us as a visitor, volunteer, or facilitator in Ipolytarnóc on the first week of July!

“All that you touch You Change. All that you Change, Changes you. The only lasting truth is Change. Learning is Change.”– Octavia E. Butler.”

OUR STORY

The adventure, now known as Field of Sparks, began in 2018 in Ipolytarnóc, a small village in Nógrád County, where we started organising an ARTWEEK with great enthusiasm to change, connect, involve and create intercultural interactions. Artists, architects and designers came together to create a new narrative for the village of Ipolytarnóc in collaboration with the locals, opening up new perspectives, creating a new identity, nurturing community spirit and local values, and using art as a common language.

Field of Sparks is a playground for artists’ free experimentation, for locals: exciting events and connections to rewrite their stories, and a place full of surprises for visitors to discover the works embedded in the surrounding fairytale nature.

A celebration of the seemingly incompatible: big city and small village, old and young, Roma and non-Roma, planned and organic, man-made and natural.

We like things raw, fresh, curious and wild

We are implementing the following principles in our work:

1. consistency is more important than perfection

2. the life lessons always live in action

3. words are powerful, we use them wisely

4. decisions from a place of love not fear

5. overthinking can not be solved by more thinking

Saturday—Sunday

29 June — 07 July 2024

Artweek&Opening Weekend

Ipolytarnóc

PROGRAM COMING SOON..

We fight against the intellectual vacuum of our time, and we believe that joyful and free creative processes deliver elementary experiences, which we highly value.
We strive for functional aesthetics in every part of the project, particularly in our experimental architectural work. We aim to sensitise every participant in this adventure to social imbalances, to encourage a more profound understanding of each other and in this way create a new kind of reality. We believe that art is the best tool of expanding the intellectual space.

Field of Sparks is a contemporary architectural and artistic outdoor experience, a place to enable real connections,
a progressive intellectual and physical creative process, an international ARTWEEK with artists from the Visegrad countries, knowledge and skillsharing, inspirational and enthusiastic collaborative work.

We operate a Central and Eastern European art base. We build large-scale experimental architectural and nature art installations.
We create works of fine art on house walls
We organize professional workshops and university seminars.
We organize theatre performances, roundtable discussions, film festivals, concerts and many more.