If political thinking disappears from the public sphere in any country, the whole of society becomes vulnerable. The apolitical stand of the citizen allows for political games designed to raise fear, and the sustaining of insecurity. Lately in Hungary, the defence of the body (or nation), the aversion of fear, the avoidance of pain have legitimated a series of security-campaigns and actions that frequently trespassed the law. All these shed light on one of the most important characteristics of the endangered body, that it is easily seduced by irrationality that leads to the abdication of self-reflexivity, and the decline in the positive experience of a community.
The state of the endangered body (Hungary) is the starting point of a greater project, dealing with the vulnerable social sphere, with a special stress on last fall’s demonstrations in Budapest. Exhibited works do not treat the subject exhaustively; they rather offer strategies for its artistic approach by presenting relevant artistic positions.