The Artpool Art Research Center celebrated the tenth anniversary of its foundation, i.e. ten years of its public activity, in 2002.
We celebrated the 10th birthday of the Artpool Art Research Center on 20 March 2002 at Artpool P60 with the participation of artists, critics and sympathisers who supported Artpool’s first ten years of public operation. The event titled "FROM EUROPE TO EUROPE: MEMORIES OF THE FUTURE, the documentary exhibition of the 10-year-old Artpool Art Research Center" was opened by Miklós Marschall (who inaugurated the Center in 1992 as deputy lord mayor at the time). The opening can be viewed here, and the speech can be read here. 10-minute videos featuring the event and its participants are available here and here.
Following Artpool's illegal operation from 1979-1990, the documents of the first period of very intensive public operation, 1992-2002, made possible by the change of regime, have been presented several times as a ‘touring exhibition’
The first international exhibition titled “10 Years of the Artpool Art Research Center” was organised by György Galántai and Artpool’s long-standing actionist and Fluxus artist friend, Jean-Jacques Lebel, in 2002 at the Institut Hongrois Paris as part of the Polyphonix40 festival.
In the space of the Hungarian Institute in Paris suitable for chamber exhibitions, the first ten years of Artpool, between 1992 and 2002, were documented according to György Galántai’s curatorial concept, using panels displaying photographs, invitations and other documents, along with selected pieces from two internationally acclaimed exhibitions, BOX(ED)-ART-WORKS, INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION TO COMMEMORATE MARCEL DUCHAMP’S 110th BIRTHDAY (1997) and FOOT-WARE (1999), as well as Artpool publications from 1992–2002.
The exhibition open at the Artpool Art Research Center from 6 March to 8 May 2024 [extended until 25 April 2025] evokes the original Paris show of 2002, displaying the original panels, video documents and objects, and also revives the DES MAINS (HANDS) project, which was also presented at the Hungarian Institute in Paris in 1996.
Wear the cyber-sandals to get plugged into wherever you are.
The spikes act like acupuncture needles that stimulate nerves in the feet. The spikes also connect to pressure points in the earth, closing the circuit between ‘body’ and ‘place’. The phone cord interfaces with cyber gear that ‘maps’ the journey.
(Mario LARA – San Diego, CA, USA – Cyber-sandals, 1999)
Motto:
To establish a dialogical relationship, a shared, communicative (linguistic, textual, physical etc.) matrix is required through which participants (artists, curators, critics, theorists, visitors etc.) can exchange their viewpoints, thus temporarily forming a community.
(Eszter Lázár: Discursivity)
Open day and guided tour on 17 April 2024
The history of Artpool drew great interest. In addition to registered Hungarian and international visitors, we welcomed students from the Intermedia Department of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts and the participants of the Erasmus BIP project – film workshop of the Sapientia EMTE - Media Department, and had a surprise reunion, after 15 years, with New York curator Karen M. Burke, who, after her extensive research at Artpool, organised the successful exhibition Performing Revolution in Central and Eastern Europe in 2009 at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts, in which she used material from Artpool’s collections.
Open day and guided tour on 24 April 2024
For those who have not previously visited Artpool, the tour begins immediately at the entrance, in the hallway. Based on the Kapolcs model, it is named the “Holonic path”, numbered 01-00. This is the path of disintegration, at the end of which visitors can reach the “Holarchy space”, featuring the current theme, numbered 00-01: it is the space of reconstruction.
Here, everybody can immerse themselves in their self‑renewing and internally constructed visions of the future, freely and without obligation.
In this sense, the guided tour is a form of intermedial communication between visitors and the guide. In other words, the exhibition, its visitors, the guide, and all simultaneously perceived elements – with their accompanying antecedents and personal notions – operate as a holonic system.
DOCUMENTS FROM THE FIRST TEN YEARS OF THE ARTPOOL ART RESEARCH CENTER
6 March – 8 May 2024 [extended until 25 April 2025]
curator: György Galántai
video preparation: Dóra Halasi
The exhibition can be viewed at the Artpool Art Research Center
by appointment daily between 10 a.m. and 5 p.m.