EVENTS
REHAB Exhibition
Labor Gallery
29 February - March 26 2008
The symposium is accompanied by the exhibition REHAB, which will open at Labor Galeria at 7pm on 29 February 2008. All symposium participants are welcome to attend the opening of the exhibition.
TWO BASKETS FULL OF QINCES AND NOTHING MORE
Ivan Ladislav Galeta, Email Art 46
They tried to make me go to rehab, I said, "No, no, no." (Amy Winehouse)
REHAB is a refuge where we can hide when we want a break from contemporary lifestyles and the damaging influence they have on our mental and physical well-being. In a system in which we're constantly obliged to be socially responsible, in the moments when we want a rest from continuous pressure to conform to social norms, REHAB is an emergency exit. REHAB is also a state of mind, a decision to press pause and unwind, a refusal of ideological conditioning and a rejection of the slavery of political engagement, a shrugging off of the burden of social responsibility and responsible socialising. REHAB purifies us and offers a chance to refresh and recharge our creative energies.
The exhibition features the work of artists who in different ways and across various media engage with the idea of REHAB. Several of the artists, through their way of life, promote the idea of resistance and investigate alternative ways of making, presenting and experiencing art, breaking down the barrier between art and life, while others give valuable examples of the renewal of quality of life through life stories and individual experiences. REHAB also features the work of socially-engaged artists made on holiday, or in moments of break, as well as symbolic collective actions and individual protests against the seriousness and banality of the everyday.
The participating artists are Ivan Ladislav Galeta (HR), Csaba Nemes (HU), Amanda Dunsmore (IRL), Rudolf Pacsika (HU), Denis Krašković (HR) and Balázs Beöthy (HU). The curators are Maja and Reuben Fowkes. For more information see the gallery website: http://www.labor.c3.hu/
Address:
Labor
5th District Képíró utca 6
Tel: 06 70 398 6974
Emmanuel Danesch - Film Screening "Livesafelyineurope"
Kisterem Gallery 8pm 29 February 2008
Livesafelyineurope
A film by Emanuel Danesch / 52min / 2007
Bulgarien / Spanien / Frankreich / Deutschland / Italien / Österreich
There has been and always will be nostalgia for days gone by. For those simpler times where neighbours swapped stories over the fence, shopkeepers knew each customer by name and families gathered on the porch to tell stories as the twilight faded into night.
To bring these human values back into life we have created spheres of exclusive living where “to be at home“ means to feel at home again…
Europe is experiencing a rise in closed, gated and guarded residential areas, named “gated communities.“ At the same time, Europe itself is getting closer to this model of exclusion by the day. The analogy between Europe and the gated community is not far fetched. Around the constructed utopias of the gated communities, the “Island Europe“ is being fenced in.
The film livesafelyineurope starts as a commercial for a gated community. The initial text – taken from real commercials for such residential communities – is combined with a montage of nostalgic images of childhood, historical views of the Berlin Wall and citations from the film “Stepford Wives”. In a kaleidoscope of scenes filmed in gated communities, at the European borders, in migrant ghettos and closed spaces in the virtual world of the “second life”, the film questions the concept of security and shows the ambivalence of this constructed reality. It dwells on the blind spots and on those who are excluded by the social model of the “gated community”, be it in the small version, or on a European level. The text that leads the spectator through the film is a combination of commercials for gated communities and official EU-documents on border control and security.
Address:
Kisterem
5th District Képíró utca 5
www.kisterem.hu
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