Artpool Art Research Centre is one of four archives participating in the international research project 'Curating the Digital Attic Archive: A Case Study for Open-Source Approaches to Artists' Archives', and will host a meeting of archivists from Scotland and Ireland in person and an online workshop with leading experts from Denmark, Germany, and Netherlands during 24-25 October 2024. …
… visual arts? Participants: Vera Baksa-Soós, art organizer, editor of the videoart magazine Infermental during the period János Sugár, visual artist, member of the Indigo group and the Balázs Béla Studio during the period János Vető, visual artist, member of the Zuzu-Vető artist duo and the Trabant band during the period Moderators: Flóra Barkóczi and Júliusz Huth (KEMKI) Location: 1135 Budapest, Szabolcs utca 33–35. Building C (Bródy Zsigmond and Adél Event …
… of photocopying and Western models, created the ideal conditions for the flourishing of fanzines as a genre. In our display we present 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 next event of „Fanzine Anatomy – Alternative Hungarian Publications on Music and Politics 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, …
… On the final day of the collection display, all video interviews in connection with the Fanzine Anatomy will be screened in their entirety. What makes the video interview marathon special is that we will be showing two films – made by Mihály Rácz and Tamás Rupaszov – that we have never shared publicly before. Interviewees: Judit Acsády, sociologist, activist, editor of Nőszemély feminist journal, member of the Feminist Network; Zoltán Legény (“Dr. Slayer”), …