Lucia Udvardyová

Lucia Udvardyová is a music journalist and organiser. In 2010, together with Peter Gonda, she co-founded Easterndaze, a project that aims to document and interconnect the emerging underground scenes in Central and Eastern Europe. Together Udvardyová and Gonda run a music label called Baba Vanga. She has collaborated with Czech Radio, Resonance FM, The Quietus, Electronic Beats, Norient, Digicult, POSTmatter, Flash Art, Austrian Cultural Forum, UH Fest, and Ad Hoc, among others. Between April and June 2015, she curated an exhibition series of events introducing several labels and collectives from Central and Eastern Europe at the OFF Biennale in Budapest. In 2016, she organized a 10-day music and film event in Berlin that aimed to bring together collectives/labels from Central/Eastern Europe and Berlin. She also works for SHAPE (Sound, Heterogeneous Art and Performance in Europe), a new pan-European festival initiative that promotes innovative music and audiovisual art, as well as Unearthing the Music, a project focused on historical music research.