Hajnal Németh: FREEDOM TRAP
Blue Chapel, Balatonboglár, 23-30 September 2023 (CCTV recordings)
CLOSING DAY
30 September 2023, 12.00-19.00 (video documentation)
GYÖRGY GALÁNTAI: THE BURDEN OF REMEBRANCE
performative installation with audience participation
The image-text combination of the installation - enhanced by sound - concentrates on the behavioral art that determined the events of the chapel studio 50 years ago, from a strictly site-specific perspective.
The audience is the most important articulator of the development of this seven-hour random, intermediate event. The active visitor can leave with the experience of having experienced the "burden of remembrance" as an experience of memory in the context of space and time.
"The Burden of Remembrance" is at the same time the closing project of the Boglár 50 events and presentations in 2023, commemorating the history and official liquidation of György Galántai's Chapel Studio in Balatonboglár 50 years ago
BOGLÁR 50 EVENTS IN 2023
50 YEARS OF REMEMBRANCE / BASIC DIFFERENCES
The chamber exhibition commemorating the events of the Chapel Studio in Balatonboglar (1970-1973) 50 years ago, introduces the ambiguous and fundamental otherness of the key participants (curator: György Galántai)
UNEXPECTED CULTURE
Boglár 50 – The Chapel Studio of György Galántai in Balatonboglár 1970–1973
Conjuring Up the Unexpected Culture
ECOC’s professional programme, entitled Unexpected Culture, pays tribute to the irreplaceable and still valid European heritage of this important chapter of the neo-avant-garde in Hungary by inviting and supporting four visual arts – and, in part, all-art - projects.
BOGLÁR - HERE AND NOW
THE CHAPEL STUDIO OF GYÖRGY GALÁNTAI IN BALATONBOGLÁR 1970-1973
The exhibition tries to put the history of the Boglár Chapel Studio in a cultural-political context, from its beginnings to its closure and beyond, in a way that is understandable for younger generations (curator: József Mélyi)
CULTURE HILL IN THE CULTURE VALLEY
Exhibition event in Kapolcs, commemorating the events of the Balatonboglár Chapel Studio 50 years ago and highlighting the Galántai and Artpool projects related to or growing out of it (curator: György Galántai)
Area 51 and Galántai House, Kapolcs, 21-30 July 2023
(Artpool's alternative art presence at the Valley of Arts Festival)
Performative archives: Balatonboglár 1970-73
Between 1970 and 1973, György Galántai's Chapel Studio in Balatonboglár was a space for progressive artistic initiatives independent of official cultural policy. This unparalleled achievement in Hungarian cultural and art history offers opportunities for contemporary innovative approaches thanks to its openness and diversity of genres and approaches.
The thematic focal points of the Performative Archives: Balatonboglár 1970-73 series of events planned for the chapel and its surroundings, and the accompanying documentary selection, were based on the concept of the curators (Gabriella Schuller and László Százados), and were determined by the invited theatre artists and visual artists.
Trace Fixing
Exhibition of a selection by Gabriella Schuller and László Százados from the documents of György Galántai's Chapel Studio in Balatonboglár (1970-73), the Dohány Street Apartment Theatre and Squat (1972-1985), and the constantly changing material of the events of Performative Archives: Balatonboglár 1970-73 (1-3).
Balatonboglár, Blue Chapel and the Crypt of the Blue Chapel, 24 August - 30 September 2023
Gabriella Schuller and László Százados
Bence György Pálinkás - Tímea Török:
Those who hold the hill on their back
Examination of the history of the Balatonboglár Chapel Workshop from a feminist perspective
(Performative archives: Balatonboglár 1970-73 / 1.)
Kristóf Kelemen: Necromancy
documentary VR-journey
(Performative archives: Balatonboglár 1970-73 / 2.)
Is it possible to create your own reality within the framework of a dictatorship? And if we step out of it, to what extent can we enter into the reality of other cultures, dissolve, create, love?
Hajnal Németh: FREEDOM TRAP
performative installation
(Performative archives: Balatonboglár 1970-73 / 3.)
Blue Chapel, Balatonboglár, 23-30 September 2023
The eight-day performative installation „Freedom Trap” is a process-based work, with a performative action, a simultaneous concert at the end of each day. The work can be visited, experienced and occasionally shaped. The CCTV recordings of the simultaneous concerts can always be viewed online on this website. The videos will be available until the end of 2023.
Closing Day and the final project of the Boglár 50 events 2023, looking back on the history of the Chapel Studio:
GYÖRGY GALÁNTAI: THE BURDEN OF REMEBRANCE, performative installation with audience participation.
Törvénytelen avantgárd [Illegal Avantgarde]
The Balatonboglár Chapel Studio was a unique experience that reflected the struggle of the artists for the free artistic expression in the Kádár era as well as the manipulations of the officialdom to curb and ultimately suppress these activities. The documents of the involvement of ministerial departments as well as the secret service in the scrutiny and the final ban of the workshop reveal the anatomy of bureaucratized state-socialism and its cultural institutions in action (Éva Forgács)
Browse the pdf version of the book here or download the pdf from here (25MB)
THE SET OF 50 YEARS OF MEMORIES
IN THE CORRIDOR OF THE ARTPOOL
Artpool, Budapest, 16 October 2023 - 13 January 2024
