Vízizrí

The exhibition examines the role played in workers’ culture by the Természetbarátok Turista Egyesülete (Friends of Nature Ramblers’ Association, TTE) and the camping site at Horány on Szentendre Island in the period between the two world wars. Here, “culture” means the aggregate of meanings, everyday customs, special occasions, and material culture. These formed the participants’ view of the world and created and re-created their conception of self-identity.

At the centre of workers’ culture was workers’ self-definition, self-improvement and self-organisation, or in other words, the development and nurturing of their identity. It was a new form of community activity where the changing identities within workers’ culture and the ideas attaching to them could be elaborated and debated. The exhibition attempts to re-interpret the meaning of “left-wing”, present the diversity of left-wing groups, and examine how the occurrence and resolution of conflicts among them took effect on the formation of a new culture.