ARTPOOL EVENTS IN 1999

FILLIOU WEB-SITE

inaugurated at Artpool as a tribute to Robert Filliou and to commemorate the 1000036 Anniversaire de l’Art (Art’s Birthday) on 17.01.1999

Robert FILLIOU proclaimed Jan.17 (his Birthday) to be Art’s Anniversary. This arbitrary and revendicative act projected a utopic desire for worldwide official proclamation of AA by political powers in the spirit of La Fête permanente and recognition of artist work and implication. People and groups gather each year celebrating and promoting AA and trying to encourage its political officialisation.

On-line birthday parties at: front.bc.ca & kunstradio.at

CONTEXT AS

installations by Levente Bálványos, Péter Halász, Ádám Kokesch, Géza Nyíry, Anna Szigethy, György Varga

Opening event on 28 January at 5 p.m.
Open till 12 February on Wednesdays and Fridays from 4 to 6 p.m. [original invitation]

TRANSMIT
Fluxus, Mail Art, Net.works

exhibition including documents of projects by Artpool between 1979 and 1993

[Artpool events/projects 1979–1991] [Artpool events from 1992]

Stencilage at the Storehouse-Airport

Exhibition by Márton Cserny

Motives – from the art of Europe and my head – cut out and transformed to templates to be sprayed as parts of a visual alphabet. (Márton Cserny) [Stencilage]

Opening event on 26 February from 5 to 7 p.m.
Open till 5 March on Wednesdays and Fridays from 4 to 6 p.m. [original invitation]

Internet as an infinite context-automaton

Artpool’s activity on the internet – a presentation by György Galántai and Julia Klaniczay

CONTEXT ZERO POINTS
MONOCHROM AND NOTHING

Yves Klein, Ben Vautier, Ray Johnson, Miklós Erdély and Endre Tót
in the presentation of György Galántai

[web-site of the exhibition, with Hungarian texts]

Opening event on 12 March from 6 to 8 p.m.
Open till 26 March on Wednesdays and Fridays from 4 to 6 p.m. [original invitation]

NOTHING IN THE PSEUDO-GALAXY

Lecture by Gyula Pauer [original invitation]

Artpool was founded twenty years ago on 25. March 1979!

“MY BEST WORK OF ART…”

Lecture by György Jovánovics

The related photo and sound documents are on display till 23 April, 1999. (Open on Wednesdays and Fridays from 4 to 6 p.m.) [original invitation] [video]

TRAP OF CONTEXTS

Lecture by János Sugár

The exhibition related to the lecture is on display till 14 May, 1999. (Open on Wednesdays and Fridays from 4 to 6 p.m.) [original invitation]

Interarchive

Exhibition showing the results of he several semester long research project of the “Kunstraum der Universität Lüneburg”, started in 1997. [more]

THE STREETLIGHT

(adaptation of texts by Vilém Flusser)

open air exhibition at the Liszt Ferenc square, Budapest (with texts in Hungarian) [original invitation]

FOOT-WARE
international exhibition

FOOT – being one of Nature’s personal and indispensable endowments, in its existence and usage, inseparably represents both intellectual and poetic relations.
Foot and Foot-ware – as performance and installation. The context of the personal (foot) and the impersonal (footwear -> footware!): the combined / simultaneous reading of the individual, tribal, national, international, biological, philosophical, technological, social, political, and artistic contents offers an opportunity for a different kind of reading in the framework of an exhibition and a publication.

The project corresponds to Vilém Flusser’s idea: “What science, art and politics will draw out of us, once they are bound into a unified way of reading, will exceed our wildest dreams.” [invitation]

on the web: artpool.hu/kontextus/footware/

TRIBUTE TO DICK HIGGINS
International exhibition

…From 1965, Dick Higgins uses the Intermedia concept as revealing to establish the existence of intermedia art works “with this notion, there is a conceptual fusion and you can’t really separate out the different media in an integral way”; intermedia concept which is still claimed by most of the current artists.
This exhibition, full of testimonies, derision, anecdotes, texts, photos, collages, scores, unusual encounters, digital pictures – a wink to new technologies- , and films is an homage to Dick Higgins, who left us suddenly during the night of the 25th to the 26th of October 1998… (Silvie Ferré, curator)

On the exhibition a video documentation (by G. Galántai) of Dick Higgins’ performance at the Club of the Association of Hungarian Writers in Budapest, and of his visit at Artpool in 1993 is shown, as well as a video of an interview with Higgins about Fluxus (from the Video Archives of Artpool)

Dick Higgins: Statement on Intermedia

Other Dick Higgins pages on the internet:

Dick Higgins * Dick Higgins – “Metadramas” * Dick Higgins “AN ARK”

The Bartók 32 Galéria at Artpool P60

INDUCTIVE POINT OF JUNCTION by INTERMÉDIA

opening speech by

József Mélyi, art historian

on 3 December 1999, at 6 p.m. [original invitation]

exhibiting artists: Gábor Bakos (with István Fábri) - Attila Csörgő - Róza El-Hassan - Attila Erdődy József - Miklós Erhardt - Roland Farkas - Géza Péter Fekete - Fanni Herczeg / Judit Héra - Gábor Győrfi - András Kapitány - Tamás Tibor Kaszás - Andrea Kirkovits - Éva Emese Kiss - Róbert Langh - Orsolya Nyitrai - Zsuzsanna Rebeka Pál - Szilvia Reischl - Andrea Schneemeier - Szilvia Seres (with: József A. Ádám, Éva Emese Kiss, Helga Eszter Rajz, Gábor Tálosi) - Ágnes Szabó - Zoltán Szegedy-Maszák - Anikó Szövényi - Gábor Valcz - Júlia Vécsei - Brigitta Zics

Curator of the exhibition: Erzsébet Tatai

RAGCARPET FOR THE AVANTGARDE

Laszlo Beke, István Hajdu and Zoltán Sebők are talking about Hajdu’s recently published book. [original invitation]