‘avant-garde’
Organising the Spectacle: Research on the Avant-garde
Project leader: Sára Bárdi – Magdolna Gucsa – Eszter Őze Our research on the avant-garde examines the media, institutional changes and series of events that characterised the period in the context late 19 th – early 20 th century social movements and mass culture. It goes beyond the aesthetic interpretations of art and approaches it through its social embeddedness and international framework, in line with methods and inquiries from the interdisciplinary crossovers of …
György Tóth: Portraits (1985–1991)
György Tóth: Tamás Király neo-avant-garde fashion designer, 1988
Resonances
… in the region with the intention of constructing a new narrative of the East-Central European neo-avant-garde based on transnational dialogues. In the framework of this collaboration, a travelling conference was implemented in four steps in Bratislava, Budapest, Prague, and Poznań. As a result, we compiled two journal issues based on the papers of the conference series. For more details visit: resonances.artpool.hu Past events: Art Margins, Regional Resonances: In …
Judit Galácz
… a staff member of the KEMKI Archive and Documentation Center (ADK). Her field of research includes avant-garde theatrical experiments in the interwar period, their art-theoretical background and international relations. In 2013-2014, she completed a one-year MA programme in Comparative History at the Central European University. From 2014 until 2021, she was a staff member for popular education at the Hungarian Theatre Museum and Institute – Gizi Bajor Actors’ Museum. In 2017, she curated an …
Zsuzsa László
… decentralized approaches to Central and Eastern European art history and exhibition history, neo-avant-garde, conceptualism, cultural diplomacy, progressive pedagogy and art theory. She works at KEMKI since 2021, between 2019 and 2022 she was museologist at Artpool, between 2009 and 2019 she was curator at tranzit/hu, between 2006 and 2008 she worked at the Studio of Young Artists, and she was a guest lecturer at the Intermedia Department of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts …