tranzit. hu presents: Hajnal Németh – False Testimony (a Version of the Version), 2012 performance video (Full HD, stereo, sound, 20')
Filmscreening /
Date: 18 May 2012, Friday, 7 pm
Venue: KIRÁLY 102, 1068 Budapest, Király u. 102, 1st floor
Following an introduction by Hajnal Németh, the film will be screened several times during the evening.
The musical performance entitled False Testimony, which has been recorded on video, is based on an actual historical event and a dialogue of a film, Version, treating this event. The “Tiszaeszlár Affair,” which took place in Hungary between 1882 and 1883, gained infamy in Europe as an anti-Semitic blood libel and show trial. The subject of the case was the accusation of the Jews of Tiszaeszlár of ritually murdering a Christian girl. The trial was described in a book by Károly Eötvös, liberal member of parliament who, as the counsel for the defense, managed to get his clients acquitted.
The film Version (1981) by Miklós Erdély focuses on a specific detail of the trial. It portrays, with great sensitivity, the moment when 14-year-old crown witness Móric Scharf is taught by the gendarme his false testimony. The lyrics for the songs in Németh’s music performance are based on rephrased fragments of the film’s dialogues. The structure of the performance follows the method of teaching and learning; the forced memorization of the lie, which is later articulated as the false testimony. The performance shows the stages of this process: the learning, acceptance and psychological attainment of the false testimony, its development into a conviction and ultimate, fatal proclamation.
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Public lecture and exhibition opening in the framework of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice in the new space of tranzit.hu, KIRÁLY 102
Date:
May 11, 2012, 6 p.m.
Place:
KIRÁLY 102, 1068 Budapest, Király u 102, 1st floor 1.
Lecture by Walter Benjamin: The Unmaking of Art
The Unmaking of Art is a story told by Walter Benjamin about the birth of art and art institutions. It tells us where why and how certain ideas of art (museums, galleries, exhibitions, artist and artwork)
originated, and how they have developed in the last five centuries. In this story the notion of art is not a universal category or something that is characteristic for all cultures, but a specific concept that appeared in the Western world during the period called the Enlightenment
Goran Djordjevic: Against Art Reconstruction of the 1980 exhibition in the Gallery of the Student Cultural Center, Belgrade
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The Unmaking of Art – Four Stories on Exhibitions, Museums and Art History proposed by: Jelena Vesić in collaboration with the Museum of American Art - Berlin
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The Unmaking of Art – Four Stories on Exhibitions, Museums and Art History
proposed by:
Jelena Vesić in collaboration with the Museum of American Art - Berlin
Lecturers: Walter Benjamin, Alfred Barr, Gertrude Stein and Jelena Vesić
May 11-13, 2012
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Artists at Schools
The Artists at Schools project is part of the international collaboration Art mediation in the age of media saturation: how can the potential of art be teased out rather than disciplined? This project is based on a collaboration between three different organizations, Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm, The Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art in Riga, and tranzit.hu in Budapest.
Three artists – Lilla Khoór, Zsolt Keserue, Peter Szabó – will realise projects for the ‘Artist at schools’ project by working with students in three different elementary and high schools in Hungary. The projects will be carried out in spring (April-May) and autumn (September-October) of 2012.
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Regime Change - An Incomplete Project
talk series /
First event:
Time: 12th March 2012, 18:00-21:00
Venue: tranzit .hu, Budapest 1068, Király St. 102., 1st floor
Invited speakers: Ágnes Gagyi, social researcher and János Sugár, artist
Moderators: Zsuzsa László (tranzit .hu), Kristóf Nagy (TEK), Bálint Németh (TEK)
Visuals : AMBPA (Association of Mouth and Brain Painters of the World)
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Daughter Products - Seminar with The Otolith Group
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The guests of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice in February are the London-based artists, The Otolith Group (Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun).
Public lecture: February 21, 2012
Seminar: February 25, 2012
Venue: KIRALY 102 - tranzit office (1067 Budapest, Király utca 102, first floor)
Please send your applications to the seminar until February 19, 2012 at office@tranzitinfo.hu
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The Otolith Group: Anathema, 2011
screening and talk with the participation of the artists /
The guests of the tranzit. hu Free School for Art Theory and Practice in February are The Otolith Group (Anjalika Sagar and Kodwo Eshun). Within the framework of the Free School, a public event will take pace about the works of The Otolith Group, with the participation of the artists.
Time: February 21, 6.p.m.
Venue: Ludwig Museum Budapest (1095 Komor Marcell u 1), lecture hall
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Catalyst Award 2011
This year, for the second time, the Catalyst Award, founded by tranzit. hu, will be handed out.
The award is given to individuals, projects, and initiatives which, directly or indirectly, have an impact on the contemporary art scene–they contribute to the presentation, discussion and mediation of art with their progressive approach of form or substance.
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Public Presentation of visual artists Sherif el Azma and Malak Helmy
Screening and performance lecture /
November 26, 7 p.m.
Kiraly 102
(1067 Király u 102, 1st floor)
Public Presentation of visual artists Sherif el Azma and Malak Helmy (Cairo)
Presentation of the outcome of the workshop An attempt to use alternative geography to explore narratives and space
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An attempt to use alternative geography to explore narratives and space
Free School workshop with visual artists Sherif el Azma and Malak Helmy (Cairo) /
Visual artists Sherif el Azma and Malak Helmy hold a four-days workshop with the students of the Intermedia Department at the University of Fine Arts between November 23 and 26 2011.
The workshop is a practice oriented format of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice
The workshop will function as a laboratory-like environment to maintain a conceptualization/ discussion with the intention to form a strong grounding from which to create a time-based collective work (made by the group involved). Time-based media may involve sound, video, performance, reading/lecture (or a multi-media piece) that has a sequential structure that runs with time. A specific space/location within Budapest will be chosen through discussion with the group, so that focus on that specific geography can be both used as part of a narrative construction and/or a base to consider different representational strategies when looking at a space more phenomenologically. Actual production will take place gradually during the three days of the workshop.
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A public lecture with David Chioni Moore and Vít Havránek
lecture /
In the framework of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice, the public lecture of cultural theorist David Chioni Moore(International Studies, English, and African Studies, Macalester College, St. Paul, Minnesota, USA) and theorist, curator Vít Havránek (tranzit.cz,Prague, Czech Republic)
October 14, 2011, 7 pm
Central European University
Auditorium
1051 Budapest, Nádor utca 9.
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The Postcolonial 21st Century: Central Europe and Beyond - A seminar with David Chioni Moore and Vít Havránek
free school for art theory and practice /
The fall seminar of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice is based on the dialogue of literary theorist and university professor David Chioni Moore (Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA) and curator/ theorist Vít Havránek, director of tranzit. cz (Prague, Czech Republic).
Date of the seminar: October 14-15, 2011
Please send your applications to office@tranzitinfo.hu until October 10, 2011.
Preparatory reading seminar on October 6th, 2011 at 5 p.m., at Labor, Képíró utca 6.
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Artists at Schools
The Artists at Schools project is part of the international collaboration Art mediation in the age of media saturation: how can the potential of art be teased out rather than disciplined? This project is based on a collaboration between three different organizations, Tensta Konsthall in Stockholm, The Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art in Riga, and tranzit.hu in Budapest.
Three artists – Lilla Khoór, Zsolt Keserue, Peter Szabó – will realise projects for the ‘Artist at schools’ project by working with students in three different elementary and high schools in Hungary. The projects will be carried out in spring (April-May) and autumn (September-October) of 2012.
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Könyvtér program at Labor
Könyvtér (Bookspace) is a thematic program series of Labor to collect and present books, journals, fanzines and other publications related to contemporary art. By involving different segments of contemporary culture, the primary aim of Könyvtér is to make the boundaries of art theory and practice the object of permanent reconsideration.
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Labor
project /
LABOR was founded in September, 2007 as a joint initiative of C³ Centre for Culture & Communication Foundation, the Studio of Young Artists Association (FKSE) and the Hungarian University of Fine Arts (MKE) in place of the former Studio Gallery. In 2009 tranzit.hu has joined the collaboration.
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tranzitblog
tranzitblog is a visual culture blog that works since 2007 in Hungarian. Blogposts are written by invited bloggers, artists, curators, art critics, urbanist, anthropologists, collectors, activists about their actual interests or hot topics. The subtitle of the art blog “critique and visuality” refers to the aim of the editors to unravel the ideologies that determines the spectacle by the blogposts and thus to help the reader in orientation.
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The Free School for Art Theory and Practice
seminars and lectures /
For applications or further information please contact: office@tranzitinfo.hu
The Free School for Art Theory and Practice considers as the basis of its philosophy the concept that contemporary art and culture produce an excess of knowledge and experience, which can be recycled and used in broader social discourse, beyond their own primary context.
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