‘call’

… Museum of Fine Arts – Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI) announce an open call to contemporary artists for the submission of research-based art projects proposals. Visual artist Endre Tót, founder and supporter of the TÓTalJOY Prize, had long been planning to create a form of support for contemporary Hungarian artists. The prize derives its name from Endre Tót’s conceptual program centred on the notion of joy, which was launched in the 1970s. His early joy pieces …

… György Galántai puts it, an active archive “generates the very material to be archived” through calls for participation, cooperation, exchange, and building of non-hierarchical networks, as well as through combining art historical and artistic methodologies of research. An active archive is future-oriented and employs a dynamic approach to history “as an open artwork and as an activist artistic practice”. The main activity of Artpool to this day is conducting non-medium specific research …