2013. október 27., vasárnap

I BEG YOUR PRAGUE

http://i-beg-your-prague.tumblr.com/

Skolská Gallery/Prague 


research project mapping the relations
in the touristy areas of Prague, and being present in the streets by weaving in new lines into the fabric of the urban space.During 3 months, we became engaged with the activity of street sellers and ‘players’ of street life (in the broadest sense possible) in order to participate in this ‘alternate economy’. Continuing the tracks of Diogenes, Brecht and Orwell, the main focus of our project became beggary. Investigating collaborative knowledge generating situations, we have organised workshops to design (more autonomous) begging strategies for a better society. In continuous flux between brainstorming and action we were trying to invite our actual Czechoslowak collegues and friends through the fields of taboos, responsibility and spectacle.Some of the innovations have initiated fruitful further collaborations, like there is a begging yoga working group actually in Budapest2013 őszén a prágai Skolská Galériában, egészen pontosan annak terein kívül, a város macskaköves színfalai között tettünk próbát az utcai árusok, mutatványosok és koldusok dolgos hétköznapjaiban való részvételre. A 3 hónap alatt az utcán való jelenlét és a kommunikációba való bekapcsolódás lehetőségeit vizsgáltuk, különböző szerepekbe helyezve magunkat, mely folyamatban a társadalmi tőke tárgyakon keresztül való mérésétől a koldulás aktusára és a koldus figurájára került a fókuszunk. Kutatásunkat irodalmi, kultúrtörténeti és jelenidejű, utcai forrásokra építettük. Workshopokat szerveztünk, hogy kibővítsük a témáról való gondolkodás tereit, és, hogy megismerjük a prágai kortárs kultúra résztvevőinek tapasztalatait. A workshopok a gyakorlatba ültetés, a visszacsatolás és újratervezés fázisait is magukba foglalták.Néhány ötlet virágzó utóélettel bír, lásd koldulójóga munkacsoport!




2013. augusztus 23., péntek

CSAKODA PR-TEVÉKENYSÉG / KÉZMűVES MÁSSÁG

Gólya udvar - Kapolcs

A Csakoda és a PR Group kézmüves vásár kritikája a kapolcsi Gólya udvarban. A stand kínálata:HENNAH MONTANAH / Müvészettörténeti hennafestés Norbival - Rothko: 1000 Ft, Rubens: 1500 FtÉRTELMISÉGI FALIDÍSZ - Kassák Lajos, Deleuze, Paul Klee és Claire Bishop idézetekkelRAPTARISZNYA / East Coast, West Coast, KenderkócKOMPOSZTIRODALOM / Merített mételypapír - Heidegger, Lukács György, Bayer Zsolt, Fejös Éva, Ugron Zsolna stb. újrahasznosítvaTECHNOKULTURÁLIS DINNYE / Matthew Fuller: Media Ecologies Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture címü írásának részlete egy görögdinnyébe karcolvaKözremüködtek: Bogyó Virág, Bajusz Orsolya, Trapp Dominika, Keresztes Zsófia, Lödi Virág, Mucsi Emese, Menyhárt Norbert, Keresztesi Botond, Murányi Mózes Márton, Szarvas Márton

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CSAKODA FEAT. PR GROUP - CRAFTY OTHERNESSGólya court, Kapolcs, HungaryCraft fair criticism of Csakoda and PR Group in Kapolcs.Together with PR Group we set up a stand in the Alley of Arts and Crafts in Kapolcs, Hungary. We intended to make a complex parody as a reaction to the expanding amount of handmade kitsch, nationalist souvenirs and hipster spiritualism.

The stand offers:HENNAH MONTANAH / Art historic henna painting. Rothko: 1000 HUF, Rubens: 1500 HUFWALL DECORATION FOR INTELLECTUALS / Quotes from Lajos Kassák, Deleuze, Paul Klee and Claire Bishop (Lacquered plaster sculptures and plaques are associated with lower middle-class bad taste - we created the intellectual versions of them. The quotes would fit the kitchen wall of disillusioned intellectuals, uncompromising artists or 2nd grade art theory students.)RAP-HAVERSACK / East Coast, West Coast, Hemp tow [The ancient Hungarian runic writing is expropriated by extreme right-wing movements. We tried to design a provocative piece by making it hip (-hop).]LITERATURE / Recycled waste literature - Martin Heidegger, György Lukács, Dan Brown, E.L. James etc. (Handmade papers are very common on craft fairs, we put it in the context of recycling-mania and it refers to book burnings as well.)TECHNOCULTURAL WATERMELON / Fragments of Matthew Fuller's Media Ecologies - Materialist Energies in Art and Technoculture craved in a watermelon.Contributors: Virág Bogyó, Orsolya Bajusz, Dominika Trapp, Zsófia Keresztes, Virág Lödi, Emese Mucsi, Norbert Menyhárt, Botond Keresztesi, Mózes Márton Murányi, Márton SzarvasAdditional photos on Facebook.További fotók a Facebookon.

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



2012. augusztus 15., szerda

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

2012. április 1., vasárnap

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/...

2012. március 28., szerda

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)/