‘mail art’

As part of the Fanzine Anatomy collection dislplay, Artpool is organizing a free of charge zine-making workshop with the creators of Zabella Zine. The event aims to offer a more personal, creative approach to the themes presented in the collection display, i.e. music, criticism of the system, feminism. During the course of the workshop, participants will not only receive theoretical knowledge but …

… research project, Resonances, which concluded in 2023, has been published in the online edition of ArtMargins. The articles by Hana Buddeus, Zsuzsa László and Alina Șerban featured in the issue Regional Resonances: In Search of the Transnational in Central Eastern European Art of the 1970s present an interconnected history of previously unexplored cross-border collaborations and friendships.   The second part of this special issue, with essays by Emese Kürti, Cristian Nae and …

The TÓTalJOY Prize was established by the Museum of Fine Art’s Central European Research Institute for Art History (KEMKI), with the generous support of Endre Tót. In 2021, a project by Tamás Kaszás was selected as the winning entry by the six-member Hungarian and international jury. Applications that reflected on changing cultural contexts and contemporary dilemmas in relation to the archives and ethos of the KEMKI - Artpool Art Research …

Artpool’s alternative presence in Kapolcs Exhibition-event in the Area 51: Data, as information, makes knowledge possible, and as a result of knowledge, first intuition and then wisdom will make all conspiracy theories impossible. Following the pattern of nature’s workings, in a knowledge-based society the future beginnings can manifest consciously through our perception of coincidences. …

… 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. This intense period seems to have come to an end in the 2000s with the rise of the internet. Subcultural discourse has largely moved online and zines …