Diploma project of
Balázs Kristóf Németh.
Co-artists: Barnabás Neogrády-Kiss / Tamás Boldi Hofmann / Zsolt Bukta
Opening: 7 May 2015, 7 pm
Opened by: Csaba Bollók film director
On view: 8 - 22 May 2015
Bureaucratie: Desk-rule. "a phenomenon that has been existing for thousands of years, built in every civilized state, a rigid, petty, narrow-minded attitude in administration, the keeping of regulations in all cases " - sounds the general definition of bureaucracy. It is a concept of dual value, since its existence actually supposed to serve our interests.
Our existence as citizens is based on a series of bureaucratic acts. Already at the moment of our birth we are given a number to wear for a life, with which we officially become part of the system. Then, the recorded data keeps expanding, with new and new numbers and data.
"It is written in files, what I dreamt and also, who understands it." (Quote from Attila József’s poem, Air! /Levegőt!/
Waiting is an integral part of our everyday lives’ bureaucratic acts. We wait in front of "Windows" and "Customer services” at the post office, at the bank, in offices and for train tickets, thus the exhibition space is transformed into an office in a symbolic sense.
The aim of the exhibition is partly to respond to the bureaucratic arrangements of our time, to pose questions, to create new aesthetic qualities using the objects and symbols of the bureaucratic machine.
The exhibited works are mainly
audiovisual projects
, in which the
motion picture, video
and
animation
-
based
installations play an important role, but graphics and photography are present as well.
