Czakó Sándor visszaemlékezései – könyvbemutató

This programme is held in Hungarian.

The strange name (Zán Coáskórd) hides Sándor Czakó, one of the founders and former guitarist of the popular 1980s band Vágtázó Halottkémek (Galloping Coroners) (an anagram), whose book from 2018, just under one hundred and forty pages long, has now been published in the United States as well. As it could be read in the Hungarian publisher’s material: “Is our mind capable of expanding the finite dimensions offered by rational mapping based on everyday perception? Can the effective exploitation of the soul’s resources open up new perspectives, something we can achieve by harmonizing the relationship between our brain functions and our mental processes? The co‑founder of the cult underground band of the 1980s seeks to answer these questions by analyzing their special magic and uncovering the secret of their popularity. They achieved their success without advertising or marketing activities, regularly performing before several thousand spectators both at home and abroad. The secret lies in the band’s unique creative process, which evoked a special experience of psychic identification, an illusion. The book offers a unique interpretation of the specific operational possibilities of the human brain that can be realized during creative processes exerting a cathartic effect.”

In the first part of the book launch, there will be a discussion with the book’s author, Sándor Czakó, the volume’s translator, Diana Senechal, and its graphic artist, Géza Barcsik. The discussion will be moderated by Béla Jávorszky.

In the second half of the evening, a roundtable discussion will follow, moderated by Béla Jávorszky. The participants will be Sándor Czakó, András Stumpf, Tamás Lévay, and László Sallai, who will talk about the relationship between the underground and the mainstream, its past and present developments, as well as the transitions and tensions between the two cultural spheres.