‘80s research’

… through the international Mail Art Network – it was through this activity that, as early as the 1980s, he came into contact with György Galántai and Artpool. This publication focuses primarily on Horobin’s Correspondence Art and Mail Art activities. It presents projects he initiated and selected actions, surveys his participation in projects by other mail artists, and summarises later installations of DATA as well as related sources available online. The publication is connected to the …

The 1980s as Gesamtkunstwerk. Participants:Vera Baksa-Soós, János Sugár, János Vető What was the 1980s in Hungarian art? Was it the democratization of the art system or the beginning of its market transformation? Was it the decade of when avant-garde died, or when it was institutionalized? Was it the heyday of the underground or of painting? The 1980s are both far away and close to us: fewer and …

… of the band Trottel and Trottel Records, a key figure of the underground music culture since the 80s.   After the screening, Viki Taskovics will play music, an active participant in the contemporary punk scene in Szeged and Budapest (currently in the band Energia80), who likes to delve into this subculture as a researcher as well.     Itinerary: Video interviews:  12:00-13.00: with Judit Acsády 13:30-14.30: with Zoltán Legény 15:00-16.00: with Mihály Rácz …

… the Netherlands. Kristóf Nagy, PhD, Fung Global Fellow at Princeton University, US; Permanent Research Fellow at the KEMKI - Central European Research Institute for Art History, Hungary; Prof. Dr. Lynn Rother, Professor for Provenance Studies at Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany and Adjunct Curator for Provenance at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Submission Guidelines: Please send an abstract (max. 500 words) and a short biography (max. 150 words) to …

… from the Artpool Collection” will take place on July 2nd at 5 pm. From the second half of the 1980s alternative self-published and technically inexpensive publications emerged that (unlike samizdat) were themed around (and for) a particular subculture, scene or fan community. In the 1990s, liberation of social organizing, together with the growing availability of photocopying and Western models, created the ideal conditions for the flourishing of fanzines as a genre. In our display we …