Hidden Visions
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- The exhibition entitled 'Hidden visions' is a thesis for the00:00:15.080
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- Fine Art Theory department of the Hungarian Fine Art University.00:00:18.180
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- About a year ago it emerged that we'd work together on this project00:00:24.420
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- and following a couple of meetings we decided to make the exhibition here in Csepel.00:00:31.500
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- So in July we visited the location, and we tried to find the spaces at the Csepel Factory site00:00:38.300
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- that'd be suitable for making an exhibition.00:00:45.530
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- In the first place 'Hidden visions' deals with the problematic of what to do00:00:48.500
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- in a post crisis situation in Hungary.00:00:56.655
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- So our basic idea was that there is an almost decade long economic crisis going on in Hungary,00:00:59.655
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- next to a societal crisis that came about after the regime change00:01:08.200
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- and there is an intellectual crisis which kicked in after the visions disappeared or got worn out that,00:01:18.000
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- one of them we call the liberal vision that was typical the world over not only in Hungary00:01:25.500
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- but after the fall of the iron curtain especially in Hungary00:01:30.060
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- and there is a pronouncedly Hungarian specific vision the 'Lakiteleki vision',00:01:36.200
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- By the 2000s, they lost their impact00:01:40.330
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- or at least they had no more effect intellectually on intellectuals nor on the country's culture00:01:43.180
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- and a year ago we started talking about what visions were still present in Hungary or in Europe00:01:48.200
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- that could define our thinking culturally and socially as well00:01:57.220
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- what visions can penetrate in a post crisis situation the cultural and ideological spectrums.00:02:03.400
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- Everything that happened in the twentieth century in Hungary left its traces on Csepel,00:02:17.300
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- on the Csepel Factory because of that we hadn't looked at it as an object,00:02:22.400
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- as an object of our examination rather as a context it'd become a very important context, Csepel has.00:02:26.450
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- In selecting the artists it was an important criterion that we somehow go beyond00:02:32.300
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- the contemporary Hungarian art discourse in which we studied, that we lived with lately.00:02:38.010
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- It was very important to include such artists that aren't usual,00:02:49.920
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- that usually do not address in their work those questions.00:02:53.950
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- It was also important to not only formulate social criticism but to rise from,00:02:59.400
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- from the criticism of whatever is going on in Hungary00:03:04.010
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- and to start to formulate positive visions.00:03:08.020
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- We also thought that it would be important not to simply select works00:03:16.020
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- but to see new work being made. In turn it was important for us as well to share00:03:23.020
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- certain references to the theme with the selected artists.00:03:29.060
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- Because of that we organized Saturday morning talks in the Labor00:03:32.060
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- to which we invited Emese Kurti, Samu Szemerei and Agi Gagyi.00:03:36.100
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- We went for a walk with a local historian of Csepel around the site of the Csepel Factory.00:03:41.300
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- We felt it to be crucial to not only hand out a task to the artists00:03:46.540
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- but to somehow create a common discourse grounding the making of new pieces.00:03:51.200
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- The installation of Istvan Csakany is in another space in an abandoned factory hall00:03:58.700
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- that piece is part of the installation that was shown at documenta13 in Kassel00:04:04.800
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- but it was never presented anywhere before00:04:10.900
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- and an aspect of the concept is to have the effect of having been abandoned in a factory hall.00:04:15.000
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- Gruppo Tomag artists group consisting of Tamas Budha and Andras Tabori00:04:23.320
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- created a fictional story for their work, the fake documents of a photograph and a shirt.00:04:28.340
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- These documents show symbols, motives that have demotic, urban and00:04:38.800
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- communist internationalist references by what they create00:04:45.010
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- a new symbolic system that can be interpreted as00:04:50.020
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- a synthesis of the great visions of the 20th century.00:04:56.560
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- Our aim with the exhibition was to initiate a search with artists, with local artists,00:05:01.100
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- for visions of the future, to have such work being created which are concerned00:05:06.360
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- with alternatives to be brought about towards visions of a better future.00:05:11.910