(Magyar) Arcképek és tetemek – Dallos Ádám és Molnár Zsolt kiállítása

Actors of Art? Roundtable-talk with the Krétakör

Pavel Sterec presents: FOR THE FUTURE AUDIENCE

Objects become witnesses of our times through acts by employees of museums that have the duty to acquire new objects. Even though the transformation of the usual object into an artefact changes nothing in its look, the object enters a different sphere of existence. To exclude something, describe it, classify it – this is not a mechanical process. On the contrary, it requires extraordinary sensitivity in order to decide what will be able to speak about our times in the future. In a performative lecture two museum employees are cast into roles of “puppeteers animating their artefacts,” lending their voices to these objects.

Zsófia Frazon is an ethnographer at the Museum of Ethnography in Budapest. She organises the MADOK research program (aiming to set up and run a nationwide cooperation between museums studying contemporary society and culture). Her research fields are contemporary consumerism, the role of objects in personal lifestyle, urban culture and subcultures, modern and post-modern everyday life and their representation. She worked in many exhibitions in or out museum, and wrote a book in the title “Museum and Exhibition – The Spaces of Redrawing” (Múzeum és kiállítás – Az újrarajzolás terei; 2011).

Roland Perényi (1976) social historian, museologist. Studied at ELTE University history and german studies. In 2010 he earned a PHD degree in social history. Studies mainly the social history of fin de siecle Budapest. Works since 2003 at Budapest History Museum, Museum Kiscell. Since 2010 he works as deputy director of Museum Kiscell. Curates the Collection of City Maps, Prints and Manuscripts.

The work of Pavel Sterec (1985, lives and works in Prague), a finalist of the Jindřich Chalupecký Award, most frequently adopts the form of complicated installations which are painstakingly thought out to the last detail and respond to various types of stimuli.

The performative lecture had been realized during Pavel Sterec’s residency in Budapest, in the frame within the residency program of the Young Artists Association and the Visegrad Fund.

Supported by:

Visegrad Fund, Workshop Foundation

Ideal State

Private Public / Book launch and talk

Márcio-André: Suspension

With Suspension, Márcio-André creates sounds live, using an electric violin suspended in space by elastic cords, microphones and other objects hung from the ceiling. Suspension, designed originally for the Eugenio Granell Museum in Spain, offers spatial streamlined relationship of the audience with poetry, approaching the art installation. The audience, inserted within the performance space, with his own body, gives different shapes to the sound produced. As each viewer is in a different relationship with the many speakers around the room, each person sees his own spectacle.

Márcio-André, writer, sound and visual artist was born in Rio de Janeiro in 1978.

Author of four books of poetry and essays, he has collaborated with newspapers including O Globo, Jornal do Brasil, O Estado de Minas and with numerous brazilian and international magazines, having his works translated into eight languages. He also has poems published in the anthologies. His work, both literary and performative, is studied in several countries like USA, Finland, Portugal and Iran.

He has taught advanced courses in creative writing and sound poetry at the University of Coimbra and the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. As a translator, he published texts of Gherasim Luca, Gilles Yvain, Serge Pey, Mathieu Bénézet, Hagiwara Sakutaro and Forrest Gander. In 2008, he received the National Library Foundation Scholarship, for the book of essays Pética das Casas (Poetics of Houses) and in 2009, was resident poet in Monsanto, Portugal. He is also one editor with Confraria do Vento (Brasil/ Portugal) and curator of Cidade aTravessa, performative and literary event that takes place in Lisbon, Rio de Janeiro and Sao Paulo.

“Go naked for a sign.”

Talk  about  Hakim Bey’s T. A. Z. with Endre Lehel Paksi

Hakim Bey, american anarchist poet, philosopher, artist published his Volume titled T. A. Z. (Temporary Autonomous Zone), which has become a basic writing all over the world for non-western, non-capitalist subcultures. The volume T. A. Z. includes three essay-groups, namely, Chaos: The broadsheets of Ontological Anarchism, Ontological Anarchism and Temporary Autonomous Zone.

T. A. Z. is as much political as much it is poetic, that is, it is ours as long as we have let it go. It cannot come to being without motion. The inspirating essays are not only radical, but they have a strong cult-effect, which makes it worth to be interpreted time and again.

On the 16^th of February, we try to read extracts from the first essay, considering it to be Chaos or Poetic Terrorism a kind of “atomos”. The behaviour of the individuum, that has just found its existence. The firs essay is the core of that train of thought, which might be used interpreting some trends of street art.

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