Virág's diploma project - Flowershop (supervisor: Padre Responsabile)

http://viragbolt.tumblr.com/

Pseudo Race Group - Liberagility

An obstacle race track for (self-identified) liberals/free-thinkers or anyone who is interested, where the participants could confront their own prejudices and the conservative and authoritarian motifs that influence their process of thought. And also with impossible situations which are generated by the contradictions of tolerance.

We think of this work as a performative installation, where the participants would act as agents, enacting scenes we set up for them, thus staging our own fantasies and nightmares, (which we processed, abstracted and manifested into physical objects) concerning the relation of the individual and the collective, and themes like freedom, free thinking, tolerance, civil liberties, etc. Participation is only one aspect of the work, the viewers do not have to interact(thus become in a sense authors themselves of their own experience) if they do not wish to be, they can observe the work as a sculptural installation in a more detached manner aswell. Through the race track, the participating viewers are assessing themselves, as we want to avoid the notion of educating or "transmitting values". The obstacles themselves are the cores of the work, and the rest of the installation, the purely sculptural bits emphasize the personal nature of the project. In essence the whole work is public sculpture structured around an experimental framework.

Themes: personal and bodily autonomy, free speech, (leftist pc) censorship, cultural freedom, tolerance, civil liberties, freedom of religion, equality and diversity.


see more:

http://liberagility.tumblr.com/

supported by tranzit.hu

Pesti Ribancok - Feminist Nail Art

PRetest

Concept of a web-page where you can upload and download (buy and sell) protest or demonstration pictures with empty boards in the hands.

http://pretest.tumblr.com/

We started with a blog and with a workshop. Where we invited a famous Hungarian photographer (Lenke Szilágyi) to teach us some technics how to take pictures of masses. We learned about camera positions, angles, which lens we should us, etc.

Later we went to the streets to try out our new skills. We used our empty banners in public places, (like bus stops, squares, crossings...) wherever we found bigger everyday masses, and could stand in front of them.

At last, we had a photoshop lecture of a graphic designer (Tamás Passa), who taught us how to put additional signs and text on the boards by computer.

...and we also developed the idea of the  wonderful pocket demonstration banner (zseb-transzparens) /above in the hands, below: the folded ones/...

Horror Vacui

http://gyorgyi-jozsi.tumblr.com/

Graphite-, and feltpendrawings, toothpaste-, and boxpaintings, threadgraphics and newspaperbaskets: many stunning work from the ouvre of Györgyi Korcsog, Nóra Vucs and József István Gulyás!

/Exhibition curated and installed by us (Carlin Herzberg, Bogyó Virág and Hódi Csilla)/

Poverty Riots - Trashy Advent!

****** http://trashcalendar.blogspot.com/ ********

Local municipality of the 8th district(Józsefváros, which is one of the poorest districts) of Budapest criminalizes poverty by prohibiting dumpster diving in that district. From the 1st of January, 2011 if you take trash in this district you are oblliged to pay the fine of 50.000 HUF (ca. 185 euro). 

Everybody knows those chocolate-filled advent calendars, which are flooding the supermarkets from October, every year. You open one window and you can find a Santa shaped candy inside. Inspired by this, during the advent period, every day we opened one numbered trash bin and put a present into it. Than we took a picture of the content. These pictures (as gif animations) were sent by emails every day to all of our contacts. 
Linked to each email we also sent some web links which were all somehow connected to the actual object in the bin.




We also made some printed calendars, which ones were spread by homeless and poor people of the street.

Pax Romana group: 'Obscene' remixed by Dan Perjovschi

Our work 'Obscene', already exhibited in Budapest before, was sent to Bukarest, to take part in the Zilele Strambe, organised by the Caminul Cultural. Considering, that the most important part of this work is definitely the story itself, we invited Dan Perjovschi, the only romanian artist, we had heard about, to help us communicating this complex story, in a new context. We asked Dan to make drawings about our experiences around this exhibition in Budapest, by not spending more than one hour to implement them and we have offered the same amount of money for his work, as a cheap hungarian prostitute would get for the same amount of time. But he donated back the money for our group and contributed this exhibiton with his work for free. The drawings of Perjovschi were copied on the walls of atelier35 by Gyula Muskovics, the curator of the exhibitions 'Exposed', member of Pax Romana group.