2012/13 spring

art and activism

The objective of the seminar is to offer an overview of the major phenomena, trends and issues of contemporary art based on various subjects in each semester.

The actual semester will place an emphasis on the interconnection of art and activism. During the course a special emphasis will be placed on the recent Hungarian cultural developments, in the form of seminars, presentations held by invited lecturers, field trips to museums, institutions and artist studios, excursions. The course primarily is targeting the Erasmus students and will be open at the same time to the students of the Intermedia and Curatorial Studies department. While offering an insight into the Hungarian contemporary art scene, one of the course’s main intentions is to foster personal contacts and cultural interactions between local and foreign students in the hope of an emerging intercultural dialogue.

bibliography

• Interrupted Dialogue – Revisions, Contemporary Hungarian Art, Catalogue, C3, 1992.
• After the Wall: Art and Culture in Post-Communist Europe, ed. by Bojana Pejic, David Elliott, Moderna Museet, 1999.
• ARTmargins. Contemporary Central & East European Visual Culture (1999-) www.artmargins.com
• Blut & Honig / Blood & Honey, Katalog / Catalogue, ed. by Harald Szeemann, Sammlung Essl, 2004.
• Praesens. Central European Contemporary Art Review (2004-)
• East Art Map. Contemporary Art and Eastern Europe, ed. By IRWIN, MIT, 2006. www.eastartmap.org
• What's Up? Contemporary Hungarian Art, ed. by Angel, Judit – Petrányi, Zsolt, Műcsarnok, 2008.
• Párhuzamos Kronológiák / Parallel Chronologies, Tranzit (2009-), http://exhibition-history.blog.hu
• We Are Not Ducks on a Pond But Ships at Sea. Independent Art Initiatives, Budapest, 1989-2009, ed. by Rita Kálmán, Katarina Šević, Impex, 2010.
• Studio / Archive / Discourses, FKSE Studio of Young Hungarian Artists, Budapest, 2009.

related events

guest lectures by Gwen Jones - Anti-Semitism in Hungary; Dániel Vékony - Muslim migration

students

Tönn Adermann, Anna Barnaföldi,  Andreas Beck , Matthew Catoe, Alexander Coco, Angéla Darvas, Sophia den Breems, Fruzsina Eskulits, János Dániel Fodor, Gábor Zoltán Hegedűs, Beáta Istvánko, Veronika Edit Kis, Henrique Loja Leandro, Ráhel Anna Molnár, Marie Ringerbach, József Sós, Anna Tüdős, Abigail Webster, Miklós Zsámboki