Budapest
Train Travel
121 conversations
writers relationships artists
relationship to larger organisations
artists networks - local and international
new beginnings and endings
artist train travel project
role of journey
focus time to meet people that is separate from everyday
democratic spaces
changing landscapes
Baths
Jacuzzi outside
democratic spaces
Bodies + focus thinking
Game
Potential for meeting strangers
Stepping out of normal/ everyday life
Both groups wanted a person that is secret person that messes the game play up for everyone else - could this person be called the train conductor
democratic space?
hetrotopias
hetrotopias
hetrotopias
not having end goal just putting people together and seeing what organically happens
Off Biennale - Hajnalka Somogyi
Quotes
civic courage
Found that through only being opposition to the state
you have less power - easy for the state to discredit them - say that 'failed elite wanting power'
Hungary Political/Art Scene
Off Biennale
The government and cultural institutions are very nontransparent
2010 have no cultural ministry
no independent cultural policy
Leads to self censorship
censorship through who gets funds
censorship who gets media attention
leads to official and unofficial culture
Subsides from abroad to have shows
NGOs seen agents from state
Did sit ins and demonstrations / open letters opposing the government #
Coordinating all the community led projects that are offering alternitve
don't have to have the same ideas - not seen as one opposition
amplification
setting an example on how it should be
structure
nomadic / shifting
International cultural funds
everyone volunteers / pro bono
Civil correction
City of Joy (2017 Biennale)
Gaudi Oppolis
created a orphanage after second world war / children's republic - own newspaper, teachers, democratic space of many religions
(after the war before communism there were 2 years that were lots ideas about how hungary should be)
presenting an alternative model
focus on....
building the community
role of play
role child friendly cities
solidarity of care
making a democratic model to run themselves
Project with two housing estates to build their own playground
2020 Biennale
Open call to apply
people fund their own projects
focus on specific long term projects / process and research based
people learnt about it afterwards internationally
No independent media so had to use their own networks and social media
need structural funds
government was going to put on their own Beinnale - don't have the skills or the people - now the international community go to them - makes their voice more powerful - the government would also not have the networks to do this
the only way to have dialogue with the state is to be independent from them
Just running the Biennial was political act
people thinking that they were a political when they first started as they were overtly political
Commented on the relationship
of who's doing work for who
didn't want political agenda to them emulate what the state were doing
Wanted to work outside the institutional bubble and work on things that were relevant outside the 'art bubble'
government might add to policy to tax 25% of
funds coming into the country if the
lots of good things about Oppolis on the Open Society Archive
somewhere in Europe - design 48 - new young film makers
Research from the group to look up
Projects and artists to look up
art action references from
meeting with delia vekony (russian cafe)
runs practical mentoring course for artists
Shabolcs Kiopal
maja and reuben fowkes - translocal.org
Kirsta Nargg?? art capital 'the last tree in the world'
How Hungarian is the off biennial
does this matter?
katrina jerseda? - polish - hostile neighbours - 40 neighbours ladders
non-telegoical - the ending hasn't been decided
meeting with delia vekony (russian cafe)
runs practical mentoring course for artist
Wants to create ism - get hungarin artists to work together to have more impact on international stage
not much art writing
public can be very detached from the comtempoary art
Block artist foundation mapped out all the free spaces in Budapest for artists to use
Drift Amy Sharrocks - liquid Scapes conference
Swap text / book / sounds at the end of the journey
Architecture unknown
Films to watch
108 beats per minute
call me by my name
didn't want to mirror the institution
proactive rather than responsive
make art again rather poltics
books to look up
fishing in utopia
wabi sabi leonard koren
mad adam trilogy
other spaces
Juranyi Haz
Jewish theatre
Redefining the Jewish identity - interested in Jewish stories don't have to be Jewish to do it more interested in persevering the culture.
Binarura
Chalk mapping robot
agnes eva molnar
worked at university which is state run but makes political personal work
Tranzit
Free school for ...practice / workshops / series
live research / archive
5 international spaces
actions dates - discussions
funded by the independent bank fund
projects about education
creating cultural project
highlight history solidarity refugee state socialism
looking at eastern Europe relation to the other parts of the world not western Europe
Blog - mezosfera.org
Aurora
how wolves change rivers
free for arts - Manchester (doing similar thing off Biennale)
Jonathan Baldock
Emma Hart
Cafe gallery Projects
Sanctuary Festival Dark Sky Park
Two Tail Dog Project - alternative political party
alternative political party
How does this split votes in first past the post system - negative
they have funds to go towards art projects
queendom
Sarah Gunther - pipacspapucs@gmail.com / pneumaszou.org - met Aurora -
she said look up queendom / bike block / CCA Political Animal confernece
uses animals as low threshold tool in protests
Air factory
department of kindness
department news on housing
the first on was about environment / second one was about social issues in budapest like housing etc
paid working coordinators
jewish but non-religious organisations
adaptable - will move places if need - from Amsterdam model
the state makes in difficult for them to operate - international community support
art factory
sold their painting to fund themsleves and the space
their work has to be commercially viable
paid residency
most spaces were owned by foreign investors - separate from the state
AQB
amazing residency space
international investor
Film company
Ultra
youtube
double negative / corridor 8 - northwest magazine
in stui
Fully automated luxury communism (nova media)
hard to be art writer in
close knit community
validation vs feedback
lonely artists
keep a diary
share space with stranger
taking out of the everyday
themes for the trip it touches upon
resillance
generosity
fatigue! - political and financial
young artists
hadn't connected to the community
stressed and tired - over capacity!
Educational structures - self learning from the community
organic growth
national vs international identity
smaller actions can have long results
travelling library of refrences
other ideas
other collaborative spaces - timeless spaces
artists mini bus
ellie harrisons - bike project
boats
Buckminster Fuller quote - You never change something by fighting the existing reality to change something build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete
city racing - the life and times of an artist run gallery
vibrant matter a political ecology of things