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[events from '92] [publications from '92] [magyar] EVENTS AT THE ARTPOOL (1995)
1995 - THE YEAR OF PERFORMANCE Lectures and discussions about the antecedents and the history of performance art with the participation of its most important hungarian and some significant international representatives. Two international festival of performance-videos from Artpool´s videoarchive. Other projects: "Artpool´s Art Tour", Canada, "Horizontal Radio", Rome, Artpool homepage
19 January 1995., 7 p.m. ORLAN Lecture and video presentation of the french multimedia artist and body-performer with the assistance of László BEKE. ORLAN's aim is to control her body, she gets her face transformed by operations. During the live broadcast of the operation she answers the questions of the audience. "I want my body to be the scene of debates" /Orlan/ 22, 24, 29 March 1995., 7 p.m. PERFORMANCE ART The first three lectures of a series organized by Artpool on performance art. László BEKE is talking about the antecedents, the beginning and the general characteristics of this field of art. According to Artpool's plans, the whole series investigates the body art works, happenings and Fluxus-events in Hungary and abroad, the relationship between performance and other fields of art (including installation, painting, sculpture, theatre, music, poetry, video, dance etc.) and the meaning of performance in broader cultural context (sport, traffic and dressing). Artpool Art Research Center has started to process the documents of hungarian performance art (1965 - 1995) in 1994. Some documents are already prepared for research in the form of videodocumentations and portfolios in Artpool´s archive, where the videodocumentation of the lecture-series will be also accessible. 31 March 1995., 4 p.m. THE ROOTS OF HAPPENING 3 May 1995., 4 p.m. TORTURED BODY, TORN CLOTHES two additional examples from the history of culture to reveal the roots of performance art - lecture by Gábor KLANICZAY 12 May 1995, 4 p.m.
or the extension of sound into the space of action - lecture by Endre SZKÁROSI 17 May 1995., 4 p.m. ILLUSION AND PRESENCE 19 May 1995., 4 p.m. WHERE IS THE BEGINNING AND WHERE IS THE END OF A PERFORMANCE? 7 June 1995., 4 p.m. THE LETTER OF WORDS AND THE MEMORY OF ACTS an attempt for mapping the gap between theory and action - a lecture by János A.TILLMANN (web) 7, 8, 9, 14, 15, 16, 21, 22, 23 July 1995., (New Kapolcs Gallery) INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF PERFORMANCE-VIDEOS 36 hour-long screening of performance-videos. Works by 300 artists from 20 countries, classics and current representatives of hungarian and international performance art (catalogue) 23 September - 8 October 1995., (Liszt F. Square) SLOGENS OF ISTVÁN SAJNOS/SORRY exhibition in the frame of the Budapest Autumn Festival. The exhibition was preceded by public competition. Altogether 267 texts of the 51 participants were published in a catalogue. The participants themselves could vote for the 28 texts that were exhibited on street-boards. 25-29 September, 2nd-6th October 1995. (Budapest Autumn Festival) VIDEO-EXPEDITION the extended and re-edited version of the summer show of performance-videos. (catalogue) 26 September 1995, 7.30 p.m. ARTPOOL'S GUEST: JEAN-JACQUES LEBEL Talk with the artist with the participation of László BEKE and Tibor PAPP. LEBEL is active in many fields and trends of art. His name is connected with the famous/infamous happening-festivals in Paris (1964, '65, '66) and the organization of the Polyphonix Festivals of Sound Poetry. Videoshow about his works took place in Artpool. |
