THIRTY YEARS OF ARTPOOL’S HISTORY (and its antecedents)
The concepts that underpin our exhibition event in accordance with Artpool’s reflexive and self-reflexive practice are: integral approach, glocal identity, everyday art event, cooperation and autonomy, self-transcendence, holarchisation.
(Holarchisation is the process of developing ever-increasing wholes and integrating them with previous wholes.)
On the thirtieth anniversary of Artpool’s “coming into existance” László Szlaukó and György Rőczei presented György Galántai with the certificate 
applied with a medal of distinction of “DADAMA”, the International Infantile (P) Party and the New Orwell Street Brigade as a recognition of his outstanding contribution to free art. Authorised by the Dadarealist “New Orwell Art Society” in the Year of the Big Leap.
The projector on the left is screening György Galántai’s version of Miklós Erdély’s film titled Train Journey; Galántai modified Erdély’s work at the Kapolcs passivity exercise. Next to it 
is the Hungarian version of Joseph Kosuth’s conceptual work titled “One and three chairs”. Behind them visitors were able to study the differences between Fluxus and conceptual time. At the top is the Fluxus flag inscribed “OPEN WORLD” – a work by Luc Fierens (B) – ‘engaged in conversation’ with the European and Hungarian flags with holes in them on the opposite wall just like the Train Journey is ‘conversing’ with the gate in Kapolcs, projected onto the middle wall of the room.
The gate in Kapolcs was originally conceived as a background for the sound work of two Canadian artists, Derek Michael Besant and Paul Connolly. In the “pre-Dimensionist” project of 2004, the image and the sound were combined on the projection screen creating the impression of a film, as a kind of fictitious film or quasi film. The 2009 version took this a step further by partly providing feedback to earlier sources at one point and reinterpreting the footage as the fictitious dimension of real reality, while extending the sound of the quasi film to the entire area of the exhibition. Besides the motion picture, the twoness/doubt is supplemented with an evergreen doubt, i.e. the philosophical explanation of change and thus creates further connections.
If Heroes’ Square is art, then Budapest is art too – if Budapest is art, Hungary is art too – if Hungary is art, the world is art too – if the world is art, Mankind is art too – if Mankind is art, every person is art too. (freely after Ben Vautier)
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The concepts that underpin our exhibition event in accordance with Artpool’s reflexive and self-reflexive practice are: integral approach, glocal identity, everyday art event, cooperation and autonomy, self-transcendence, holarchisation.
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Artpool events – 25 March – 20 April 2009 – Artpool P60