Parallel Chronologies
dal 20/5/2009 al 14/6/2009
Segnalato da
20/5/2009
Parallel Chronologies
Different venues, Budapest
An exhibition and symposium with the title Invisible History of Exhibitions, which aims at the formation of a shared knowledge and discourse on Eastern European art exhibitions from the 1960s till now. The project intends to break with the usual ways both international and local art events and publications either ignore or exoticize this field. For this aim we present a network of professional relationships, exhibitions, events, and art spaces instead of the sheer display of artworks from the period.
The larger framework of the project, Art Always has its consequences is a long-term international collaborative platform, that focuses on invisible, alternative histories through genres and forms of art practices such as artist text, archives, and conceptual design, which have had restricted international visibility and accessibility so far and thus are often missing from the canonized narratives of contemporary art in Eastern Europe (www.artalways.org)
The "Invisible History of Exhibitions" project looks at the history and the current interpretations of the exhibition, as the dominant format of contemporary art production and presentation. "History" in this context is interpreted as constructed narratives based on events that constitute shifts in the notions of art (art history) and the modes of its presentation (exhibition history). While in western countries mainstream art institution hosted curatorial group exhibitions that constitute the landmarks in the history of exhibitions, in Eastern Europe between the 1950s-1980s progressive art events could often only happen in "second publicity", in private flats and off-site spaces outside of public art institutions so they are deeply embedded in the historical conditions of the public sphere. With this symposium we attempt to trace and introduce a different methodology to be able to include Eastern-European events in the international discourse on exhibition theory.
Parallel Chronologies. Invisible History of Exhibitions
documentary and research exhibition
curators of the exhibition: Dóra Hegyi and Zsuzsa László, kuda.org Novi Sad, prelom kolektiv Belgrade
Parallel Chronologies investigates the exhibition as a cultural phenomenon and a genre on its own right focusing on the period determined by the state socialisms of the Eastern European region. The project intends to break with the usual ways both international and local art events and publications either ignore or exoticize this field. For this aim we present a network of professional relationships, exhibitions, events, and art spaces instead of the sheer display of artworks from the period.
The exhibition contains two archives dealing with neo-avant-garde art from Belgrade and Novi Sad. The prelom kolektiv has studied several significant events of the SKC, the Student Cultural Center in Belgrade in the 70s, and kuda.org new media center has collected the most important documents of the neo-avant-garde in Novi Sad. The third section of the exhibition presents progressive art events from the 60s-70s in Hungary. The exhibition and event documentations from Hungary are structured around a research asking various Hungarian art professionals about the art events from this period they find the most significant in relation to their own practice.
Instead of aiming at an objective history gained from the synthesis or reconciliation of differing individual points of views we rather would like to trace the idiosyncratic pattern of difference and accordance, the map of blind-spots and legends. The exhibition also addresses chronologies as important channels of mediating art events of an epoch. Chronologies play a defining role in transforming atomic events into histories and canons especially in the case of Eastern-European art events that happened in the second publicity during the 60s and 70s.
organizer: tranzit.hu
contact: Ágnes Szanyi, office@tranzitinfo.hu, +36 70 7798132
The exhibition Parallel Chronologies and the symposium Invisible History of Exhibitions is part of the international project Art Always Has Its Consequences co-financed by the Culture 2007 program of the European Union.
supported by the National Cultural Fund, Hungary
Partners: Artpool Art Research Center, Krétakör Bázis
Special thanks to: Hungarian National Gallery, Szent István Király Múzeum, Székesfehérvár, Foksal Galllery Warsaw, Balázs Béla Studio, MTI, Budapest Gallery, Dobos Archive, László Beke, Orshi Drozdik, Edit Sasvári, Tamás St.Auby and others
Technical support: Ludwig Museum – Contemporary Art Museum, Krétakör Bázis
Answers by: Gábor Andrási, Judit Angel, Gábor Altorjay, László Beke, Balázs Beöthy, Róza El-Hassan, Dániel Erdély, Miklós Erhardt, Maja and Reuben Fowkes, János Fodor, Andreas Fogarasi, Éva Forgács, Péter Fuchs, József Havasréti, Sándor Hornyik, Tibor Horváth, Tamás Kaszás, Katarina Sević, Zsolt Keserüe, Lilla Khoor, Szabolcs Kisspál, Gábor Klaniczay, Júlia Klaniczay, Péter Kovács, Márta Kovalovszky, Katalin Ladik, Dóra Maurer, András Müllner, László Najmányi, Gyula Pauer, Miklós Peternak, Société Réaliste, Katalin S. Nagy, Tamás St.Auby, János Sugár, Annamária Szőke, Erzsébet Tatai, Gábor Tóth, Tibor Várnagy
Image: part of the chronology, created by Dóra Maurer, published: Künstler aus Ungarn, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, 1980
Opening: May 20, 6 p.m.
Related Projects:
May 21 - 22
Invisible history of exhibitions - international symposium /
art always has its consequences / hu /
concept of the symposium: Dóra Hegyi, Zsuzsa László, and Emese Süvecz
How can we remember, reconstruct, and recycle exhibitions in order to include them in our shared historical knowledge? How could historical research adapted to international curatorial discourses change the ever prevailing feeling of being ignored and belated of historically and geo-politically marginal art scenes? How Eastern-European art practitioners could take advantage of - and at the same time overcome the voyeuristic western market interest in communist past fueled by both post-colonialism and globalism? How can we make sense of the shared experiences of youth movements, sub-, parallel- and counter cultures, political activism and the fundamental differences concerning the legacies of neo-avant-garde?
Themes and sessions of the symposium:
1. Revisiting exhibitions: reconstruction and re-contextualization
2. Archives - the archive as exhibition format and exhibition archives
3. East European exhibitions as tools of identity-politics
4. Exhibition making as an emancipatory practice
Participants
Judit Angel (HU), Maja and Reuben Fowkes (GB, HR), Izabel Galliera (USA), Reesa Greenberg (CAN), Vit Havranek (CZ) Yelena Kalinsky (USA/RU), Júlia Kalniczay (HU), kuda.org (SRB), Viktor Misiano (RU), Cristian Nae (RO), Lívia Páldi (HU), prelom kolektiv (SRB), Natasa Petresin-Bachelez (FR/SLO), Isabelle Schwarz (DE), Keiko Sei (JPN/THA), Georg Schöllhammer (AT), Emese Süvecz - Orshi Drozdik (HU), What How and for Whom? (HR), Andrea Tarczali (HU), Katalin Timár (HU), Magdalena Ziolkowska (PL)
Introduction and moderation: Dóra Hegyi, Zsuzsa László
Labor
V. Budapest, Képíró u. 6.
Krétakör Bázis IX. Budapest, Gönczy Pál u. 2.
(Tuesday and Thursday 4 p.m. - 8 p.m., Saturday 10 a.m. - 2 p.m.)