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The Digital "Attic Archive"
… four separate ten-year-long self-historicization projects, reflecting on the changing social and cultural conditions of the 1970s–2020s, within which the artist operated. As the archive is now dispersed across Scotland, Hungary, and Ireland, the project seeks to bring together archivists and curators from key collections to test the possibility of establishing a shared online, open-source platform. Functioning as an archival/curatorial space in which the historical threads of the …
Presence in Kapolcs
… Latest exhibition: Telematic Society: Art in the Fourth Dimension, 19-28/07/2024 Culture Hill in the Cultur e Valley, 21-30/07/2023 FUTURE BEGINNINGS / COINCIDENCES | 50 - 40 - 30 - 20 - 10 YEARS AGO | NOW, 22-31/07/2022 Fifty Years of Holarchy, 23/07-01/08/2021 The Integration of Doubts/Doubles and Chance / The Mistery of the Mobius Strip, 17/07-04/10/2020
TÓTalJOY Prize
… In the judging process, preference is given to submissions that respond to changing cultural contexts and contemporary dilemmas. In response to the first call, announced in July 2021, twenty-seven project proposals were submitted. The decision-making body, composed of Hungarian and international judges, selected Tamás Kaszás’s project entitled Lost Wisdom as the year’s prize-winning entry. In the judges’ view, Tamás Kaszás’s Lost Wisdom, through its background of lived …
Years of Transition: the 1980s in Hungary and Eastern Europe
… aims to provide a comprehensive analysis of Hungary’s visual arts during the decade, considering cultural and economic policies as well as global contexts and connections. The research project examines key aspects of the period, including the transformation of the art institutional system, major artistic debates, critical discourses, and the emergence of new painting trends and postmodern theories. It also explores the blending of experimental and underground movements with various art …
Organising the Spectacle: Regional Contexts of the Historical Avant-garde
… 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 social history and art theory, such as urbanism, sociology of art, intellectual history, and cultural transfer. The central concept of the research program is the metropolis, …