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IMAGESCAPE Commissioned by the festival, visual artists, architects and writers propose site-specific interventions that unveil hidden dimensions of Budapest. Eszter Laki and Szilvia Nagy spark new life in one of the so-called Lotto Houses, tenement buildings where fortunate lottery winners received flats during the seventies. They transform the building into an extraordinary exhibition space that recounts personal histories and documents the Lotto House phenomenon. Vernissage: 25 September from 5 pm till 8 pm
Dates: 23 September - 2 October
The artist duo of Tomáš Moravec (CZ) and Matěj Al-Ali (SK) test our awareness of the ever changing urban environment by starting construction works in an uninhabited passage in city centre. "Installation False grounds follows the strategy of implementing a visually expected form into routinely neglected sites (passages, corridors, courts). The aesthetic of work creates a kind of mimicry for this object – being present in our surrounding, it could be easily understood as a fenced working area – construction site. We have simply got used to so often reparations in the streets and transformation of our surrounding that we rarely pay attention to it or see the real context of it. Public space becomes "transit“ space. Moving through without any thorough interest except the transit creates the “spatial blindness”. Thus we are being surprised about what happened there retrospectively. This site works as an unknown pedestrian, stays unknown until we spend our time to stop and look a bit more carefully than usually. Only people that actually look around in a public space can see movement and changes of the site. Wasn’t it a bit beside yesterday? And what are they exactly working on here? Just another hole in the ground. But this is not a real excavation..." Dates: 23 September - 2 October Events of the visual arts programme are free of charge throughout the festival. |
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