STUDY TRAVEL TO BUDAPEST: EXCHANGE, VISITING 21-23.11.2011 PARTICIPANTS, students PCAP: Aleksandra Aleksic Sarah Binder Lisa Bolyos Anastasia Bruelle Claudia Caceres Christian Diaz Orejarena Miltiadis Gerothanasis Can Guelcue Naz Gündogdu Sophie Haas Cornelia Hauer Willi Hejda Neda Hoseinyar Tatiana Kai-Browne Daria Kirillova Simone Kunz Philip Leitner Marissa Lobo Natasa Mackuljak Verena Melgarejo-Weinandt Laura Nitsch Georg Oberlechner Peter Palme Tanel Rander Seraina Renz Maria Rodriguez Andreas Scherz Anna Shestakova Claudia Tomassetti Katharina Wagner Joanna Wilk

GENERAL PROGRAM 21.11.2011, MONDAY

Arrival and accommodation, LUNCH. Early Afternoon: VISITING the Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest

The Hungarian University of Fine Arts ( en.wikipedia.org Hungarian: Magyar Képzőművészeti Egyetem) is the central en.wikipedia.org Hungarian art school in en.wikipedia.org Budapest.

Address:

1062 Budapest, Andrássy út 69-7, en.wikipedia.org Andrássy Avenue.

Program first day:

FIRST) Meeting at the Art Theory Department, at address 1062 Budapest, Andrassy 69-71, with prof. János Szoboszlai, the Head of Art Theory Department and prof. Eszter Lázár, curator at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, where she is a leading member of the exhibition committee.

PRESENTATIONS 3 students will have a short presentation (10 min) from the Theory Dept.

Vera Kiss 3rd year stud: presentation of a dept. research project - Archive of the Hungarian Curatorial Practices

Bea Istvanko 3rd year stud: Urban Spaces Budapest-Berlin. (exhibition project at Demo:Gallery)

Zsófia Rechnizer stud: Fictional project based on the short story of the Chapel Exhibitions at Balatonboglar (1970-73)

From the side of Conceptual Art class, Akbild, presentations:

-Presentation by Marissa Lôbo (about Maiz, Linz), migrants' self empowerment, knowledge, anti racism. Marissa Lôbo is Black activist (maiz, Linz) and performer.

-Presentation with a title "Solidary struggles against deportation in Austria" by a collective authorship; actions against deportation, activism, anti racism, analysis state hegemony and discrimination, EU policy.

-2 positions presentation, students in the first semester: Sophie Haas and Daria Kirillova

FOLLOWING) Meeting prof. János Sugar, Intermedia department of the Academy (address: Kmety 26).

www.v2.nl www.v2.nl/~arns/Projects/Converge/ClovSu.html

Janos Sugar studied in the Department of Sculpture at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest (1979-84). Between 1980-86 he worked with Indigo, an interdisciplinary art group led by Miklos Erdely. Sugar served on the board of the Balazs Bela Film Studio (1990-95) and has been teaching art and media theory in the Intermedia Department of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts since 1990.

EVENING FIRST DAY: Going to Demo:Gallery that is run by students.

Drinks and food.

22.11.2011, TUESDAY At 10.00

Ludwig Museum-Museum of Contemporary Art

Address: Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art Palace of Arts Komor Marcell u. 1, Budapest, H-1095 Meeting with the director of Ludwig Museum, Barnabás Bencsik.

Meeting with Tijana Stepanovic, curator and head of the department of ACAX | Agency for Contemporary Art Exchange department of Ludwig Museum.

Meeting with Rita Kalman, curator, ACAX.

Meeting with Nikolett Erőss, curator of East of Eden - Photorealism: Versions of Reality

and Yona Friedman: Architecture without building.

Seeing the exhibitions at Ludwig.

LUNCH

At 14.00 House of Terror, museum located at 1062 Budapest, Andrássy út 60. It contains exhibits related to the fascism and communism. The museum opened on February 24, 2002. It is also a memorial to the victims of these regimes, including those detained, interrogated, tortured or killed in the building.

Lecture, guide: Borbala Kriza

Intro proposed by the lecturer to contextualize his lecture:

ZSÓFIA FRAZON - ZSOLT K. HORVÁTH

"The Injured Hungary. The House of Terror as presentation of objects, monument, and political rite"

This essay analyses the political symbolisation and the memorial representation of the House of Terror, inaugurated on 24 February 2002 (Memorial Day of the Victims of Communist Dictatorships) by Viktor Orbán, prime minister of Hungary between 1998 and 2002. This sacred commemorative place of two dictatorships (the period of Hungarian Nazis assembled in the Arrow Cross Party, and subsequently the communist rule), called officially 'museum' is, according to our hypothesis, a political monument to the abuses of the recent past. This kind of contemporary history is more than a historiographical problem, as it is located in the point of intersection of history (as a discipline) and memory (as a discourse based on the testimonies of the survivors). First we try to define what the House of Terror is: with a comparative theoretical framework and a concrete, empirical research, we show that it is impossible to consider it either as a museum or as an exhibition because the presentation of objects does not correspond to the criteria of those cultural institutions. Therefore, we regard the House of Terror as a monument. With a historical approach, supported by methods of the scholarly literature on monuments, we attempt to characterize the notions on which this particular monument is founded: these notions are 'victim' and 'injury'. Analyzing the connection between the official political discourse and the symbolic occupation of public places at the time of the inaugural ceremony of the House of Terror, we describe the underlying conception of history and its uses. According to our hypothesis, the House of Terror, based on the notions 'victim' and 'injury', maintains the idea of the nation 'injured' by its rivals, invented and used mainly between the two World Wars. The House of Terror keeps the structure of this concept, but changes a keyword in it - thus becomes a memorial representation of Hungary injured by communism.

At 18.00 back to the Academy of Fine Arts for the McLuhan centenary event. mcluhan100.kibu.hu mcluhan100.kibu.hu

Meeting Prof. Miklós Peternák, head of the Intermedia Department, Hungarian Academy of Arts, Budapest; Director of C3, Budapest.

About the project: Under the title of Marshall McLuhan in Europe 2011, there have been a series of events dedicated to the centenary of Marshall McLuhan's birth throughout Europe.

Marshall McLuhan, (July 21, 1911 - December 31, 1980) was a Canadian educator, philosopher, and scholar, his work is viewed as one of the cornerstones of the study of media theory, as well as having practical applications in the advertising and television industries. McLuhan is known for coining the expressions "the medium is the message" and "the global village" and predicted the World Wide Web almost thirty years before it was invented.

EVENING: Opening Demo:Gallery and drinks, party in the city with Eszter Lázár and the students.

23.11.2011, WEDNESDAY

At 11.45 Intermedia department of the Academy (address: Kmety 26).

Sherif El Azma and Malak Helmy (Cairo)

Presentations of their work

Part of the workshop held by the artists in the framework of the Free School for Art Theory and Practice organised by tranzit. hu ( hu.tranzit.org hu.tranzit.org)

tranzit.hu/ Dora Hegyi and Emese Süvecz

tranzit.hu is a space which cultivates encounters of different formats and contents and does so in constant mediation. We follow the idea that artistic and curatorial thinking- including both theory and practice -produces an excess of knowledge, which can be recycled and used in a broader social discourse. Our ambition is to let our space where culture is produced, rather then perceived, where values are tested and can be debated

• in continuous awareness of conservative backlash. tranzit. hu welcomes art and ideas that are low-represented or excluded elsewhere (e.g.: in art history, or in contemporary canon making) because being difficult, out of fashion, unsellable or not straight. Therefore tranzit. hu is keen on collaborating not only with well established professionals but also with bright young intellectuals who are willing to take on responsibilities. tranzit. hu is somewhat anarchic, idealistic place where "mistakes" are rendered into new schemes. We believe that the conversations started through the projects contribute to form a responsible-critical and experimental attitude towards contemporary life.

DEPARTURE late afternoon.