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… the internet has also radically increased the range of possibilities. Nonetheless, documenting and researching independent art have constituted a complex problem in Central and Eastern Europe for decades.  Retrospectively seeking and organising sources, along with maintaining and modernising digital platforms, are also often met with fundamental technical, infrastructural and funding difficulties. What is the current state of independent art archives, databases and registers in Hungary and …

… publications from 1986 to 2003 selected from the rich fanzine collection of the Artpool Art Research Center. The two themes of the selected publications—music (related to punk and other alternative subcultures and/or thematizing music) and political or social issues (mainly by anarchist and feminist groups)—are in many ways intertwined. Behind the seemingly chaotic editorial principles that define fanzines, there is a recurring structure that draws on formats present in mainstream …

… Senior Core Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies, CEU) within the framework of KEMKI’s research project on the art of the 1980s. National frameworks and containers are often too narrow to fully grasp the complexities of social, historical, and artistic development. What, then, should replace methodological nationalism—multiculturalism, internationalism, or something else entirely? These questions are particularly pressing when viewed from the perspective of Eastern Europe, a …

… and Criticism], edited by Júliusz Huth and Kristóf Nagy and published by the Central European Research Institute for  Art History (KEMKI), offers a comprehensive exploration of this era. Featuring over fifty essays, reflections and reviews originally published during the 1980s, alongside a new, comprehensive study on the art criticism of the decade, the volume delves into the art discourses of the era. The volume examines key artistic debates on postmodernism, new painting, socialism, and …

The latest volume of KEMKI publications, which is edited by Balázs Zoltán Tóth, is related to research on the history of photography conducted by KEMKI ADK. It contains extended and edited texts from the presentations given at the conference entitled Stratification of an Archive: Possible Approaches to the Oeuvre of Péter Korniss. The diversely themed essays in the volume provide new interpretations of attitudes that prevailed in Hungarian documentary photography and …