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Art Has No Alternative<\/strong>
\r\n <\/strong>An Archive of Artists in Action<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Opening: 9 January, 2015, 6 pm
\r\n Exhibition open until 1 February, 2015<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Address: tranzit.sk, Beskydsk\u00e1 12, Bratislava, 811 05, Slovakia
\r\n Opening hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 2.00 – 7.00 pm<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Curated by Hajnalka Somogyi<\/p>\r\n\r\n

with suggestions of works by Judit Angel, Petra Bal\u00edkova, L\u00fddia Pribi\u0161ov\u00e1, Andrea So\u00f3s, Katalin Sz\u00e9kely<\/p>\r\n\r\n

A selection of works by<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Akademia Ruchu | Pawe\u0142 Althamer | Azorro | Istv\u00e1n B\u00e1lint | Cezary Bodzianowski | J\u00e1n Budaj & Temporary Society of Intense Experience (TSIE)\/ Do\u010dasn\u00e1 spolo\u010dnos\u0165 intenz\u00edvneho pre\u017e\u00edvania (DSIP) | Bureau of Melodramatic Research | Nemanja Cvijanovi\u0107 | C\u0103lin Dan | Braco Dimitrijevi\u0107 | Tom\u00e1\u0161 D\u017eado\u0148 | \u00c1gnes Eperjesi | Mikl\u00f3s Erhardt | J\u00e1nos Fodor\/Anik\u00f3 Sz\u00f6v\u00e9nyi et al. | Fokus Grupa | Gy\u00f6rgy Gal\u00e1ntai | P\u00e1l Gerber | Tomislav Gotovac | Teodor Graur | Group of Six Artists | Igor Grubi\u0107 | Grupa K\u00f4D\/Goran Trbuljak | Tibor Gyenis | Tibor Hajas | Tibor Horv\u00e1th | IRWIN | \u017deljko Jerman | Eva Ji\u0159i\u010dka | J\u00f3zsef R. Juh\u00e1sz | Andrea Kalinov\u00e1 | \u0160ejla Kameri\u0107 | Jana Kapelov\u00e1 | Tam\u00e1s Kir\u00e1ly | Milan Kn\u00ed\u017e\u00e1k | J\u00falius Koller | J\u00falius Koller\/Peter R\u00f3nai | Ji\u0159\u00ed Kovanda | Karolina Kubik | Jaroslav Ky\u0161a | L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Lakner | \u0141\u00f3d\u017a Kaliska | Marko Luli\u0107 | Vlado Martek | Mikl\u00f3s M\u00e9cs | Vikt\u00f3ria Monhor | Ivan Moudov | Hajnal N\u00e9meth | Lucia Nimcov\u00e1 | OHO\/Na\u0161ko Kri\u017enar | Miklos Onucsan | Andrzej Partum | Ewa Partum | Dan Perjovschi | Lia Perjovschi | PR Group (Vir\u00e1g Bogy\u00f3 and Csilla H\u00f3di) | Rafani | R. E. P. | Tom\u00e1\u0161 Ruller | Pavla Scer\u00e1nkov\u00e1 | Veronika \u0160ramatyov\u00e1 | Mladen Stilinovi\u0107 | J\u00e1nos Sug\u00e1r | J\u00e1nos Szirtes | B\u00e1lint Szombathy | Slaven Tolj | Milica Tomi\u0107 | Endre T\u00f3t | Andr\u00e1s Wahorn | Martin Zet<\/p>\r\n\r\n

The notion that artists are \u201cidiots\u201d is an oft-recurring observation among \u201cnormal\u201d, \u201caverage\u201d people. This has been the case for centuries, but some contemporary modes of artistic creation, such as painting with excrement, running around naked, or simply doing nothing special and calling it art, have only served to cement this most cherished social conviction. (In Athenian democracy, the word idi\u014dt\u0113s referred to a person who did not participate in the public life of the polis, who was self-centered and unconcerned by larger, common affairs \u2013 an attitude that the Greeks deeply condemned.)
\r\n At the same time, contemporary art is going further than ever in trying to be better than the best citizen, to serve those in need or within its reach. Artists today act as social workers, teachers, designers, or political activists in order to produce art that has a direct, inevitable, practical use for society.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Art is neither idiocy nor helping others. Doing away with this most unfruitful dichotomy, the project Art Has No Alternative aims to suggest that going against common sense, being useless, counterproductive, or incomprehensible within the frames of the current social and political consensus might just be the way for art to contribute to the sanity and well-being of its environment.
\r\n Its title taken from a stencil work by Vlado Martek from 1986, the exhibition presents artistic strategies that are played out in urban public space, and that are based on the artist’s direct presence and simple actions, which might be absurd, illogical, immoral, disruptive, excessive, ridiculous, rebellious, embarrassing, heroic, poetic, risky or banal, but which no one would consider \u201cnormal\u201d: instinctive or conscious subversions of certain norms, cases of overstepping boundaries, as well as demonstrations of the idea that possibilities beyond the consensually rational, safe and accepted should be sought out and tried. This art is not focused on the creation of objects, but rather it is meant to be a form of living one’s life. It is the artist’s civic competence and responsibility towards common issues that is demonstrated. However, there is no solution offered or imposed; what conclusion the startled, confused, amazed or embarrassed passer-by\/beholder draws from the experience is entirely up to them.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

The collection of works presented here spans a time frame from the late sixties until today and a geographical area that is known as East-Central Europe. The curatorial strategy has been to make a statement through accumulation: to gather these most innocuous, ephemeral artistic acts that happened over several decades in various urban environments, like quick, playful, angry or stubborn sparkles in the fog, and display them in image-clouds in order to accumulate and activate the immense energy they carry, in a simultaneous presentation. To gather a critical mass of artists in action, so to say. It displays photos and videos of these actions — the methods of which range from slapstick and caricature to provocation and poetic agitation — as an absurd tool-kit for public action: for exercises in freedom that are badly needed in the agoras of East-Central Europe.<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Coordination of the project: Petra Bal\u00edkov\u00e1, J\u00falia Laki, L\u00fddia Pribi\u0161ov\u00e1, Andrea So\u00f3s<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Exhibition design and graphic layout: Zolt\u00e1n Szmolka<\/p>\r\n\r\n

Special thanks to all the artists and: Jonathan Csaba Alm\u00e1si, Aanant & Zoo Gallery, acb Gallery, Artpool Art Research Center, Zdenka Badovinac, Roman Babjak, Arch\u00edv J\u00e1na Budaja \/ J\u00e1n Budaj Archive, Drdova Gallery, Lina D\u017euverovi\u0107, D\u00e1vid Feh\u00e9r, Filmoteka of the Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Kveta Fulierov\u00e1, Tomislav Gotovac Institute, Daniel Gr\u00fa\u0148, D\u00f3ra Halasi, D\u00f3ra Hegyi, Be\u00e1ta Hock, Galerie Martin Janda, Mira Ker\u00e1tov\u00e1, Panka Kiss Kov\u00e1cs, Gabriela Kisov\u00e1, Marie Kn\u00ed\u017e\u00e1kov\u00e1, Gal\u00e9ria J\u00e1na Koniarka\/J\u00e1n Koniarek Gallery, Kontakt. The Art Collection of Erste Group and ERSTE Foundation, Gizella Kopp\u00e1ny, Emese K\u00fcrti, Ludwig Museum \u2013 Museum of Contemporary Art Budapest, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Pavl\u00edna Morganov\u00e1, Emese Mucsi, Gyula Muskovics, Zoran Panteli\u0107, Galeria Plan B, Marko Poga\u010dnik, Mirko Radoji\u010di\u0107, Raster Gallery, J\u00f3zef Robakowski, Adam Rzepicki, Darko \u0160imi\u010di\u0107, Katalin Simon, Branka Stipan\u010di\u0107, Galerie Michaela Stock, Marinko Sudac Collection, Mi\u0161ko \u0160uvakovi\u0107, Andrzej \u015awietlik, Katalin Sz\u00e9kely, Lenke Szil\u00e1gyi, J\u00e1nos Szoboszlai, Katalin Tim\u00e1r, Tibor V\u00e1rnagy<\/p>\r\n\r\n


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