Polyphony

Social Commentary in Contemporary Hungarian Art

PICTURES

WORK DATA

Organizer:
Category:
EVENT (collection)
Type:
exhibition
Keywords:
media art / politics / site-specific / sociology
Creation Date:
1993-11-01 - 1993-11-30
Description:
(…) In accordance with the concept, the public was expected to confront, stumble over, meet with art works without their being grossly over-identified (as in a museum). The Hungarian public met with PHOYPHONY in opening a newspaper, a magazine riding a bus, driving a car across the bridge, using a public telephone booth, receiving an official stamped envelope, shopping at a greengrocer, walking on the street, looking at an electronic billboard, or visiting a bomb shelter, an empty block of land, the bank of the Danube, institutes of learning, an artist’s flat, a business center, a museum, and a private gallery. Upcoming events and the site specific works were advertised only in a small format with a characteristic meander frame in the most widely read daily newspaper. Events were indicated by an enamel sign, similar to advertising signs used by small business, including the same meander motif and a brief description of the project. (…) (Suzanne Mészöly)

More Information

Original Title (Hungarian):
Polifónia
Original Subtitle:
A társadalmi kontextus mint médium a kortárs magyar képzőművészetben
Location:
Budapest, különböző helyszínek a városban / different spots in the city
Additional Information:
Soros Center for Contemporary Arts - Budapest, Annual Exhibition 1993
Works in this Collection:
 
STILL TITLE PERSON TYPE CREATION DATE
still A Few More New Telephone Booths István Szili
project,
public art
1991
still Agitator Gyula Várnai
installation art,
sound art
1993-11-19
still Almost Everyehere... Csaba Nemes
public art
1993-11-05 - 1993-11-25
still Alone at Zero Square Béla Máriás
performance art
1993-11-30
still Architecture, Radiation and Resurrection, on the envelopes - Postal Stamp Project Pál Gerber
public art
1993-11-07 - 1993-11-30
still Blue Danube Waltz János Szirtes
installation art
1993-10-26 - 1993-10-30
still Boulvard Stroboscope Róza El-Hassan
installation art,
video art
1993-11-24
still Clouds György Kungl
installation art
1993-11-26 - 1993-12-06
still Direction Signs Antal Lakner
installation art
1993-11-26 - 1993-11-17
still Don't Travel - Travel! Balázs Kicsiny
installation art
1993-11-02 - 1993-11-21
still Electronic Billboard János Sugár
object,
public art
1993-11-03 - 1993-11-30
still Exhibition at the Greengrocery Miklós Pinke
interactive art,
public art
1993-11-20
still Fireplace László László Révész
installation art,
video art
1993-11-01
still Floor Parables 2 - Studies for the Chalk Circle Ágnes Eperjesi,
Tibor Várnagy
installation art
1993-11-30
still Medium-Analysis II Hungarian University of Fine Arts, Intermedia Department
project
1993-11-19
still My Day Is Ruined if I Don't Vanquish Three Evils Pál Gerber
graphic art,
public art
1993-11 - 1993-12
still Polyphony Nina Czeglédy,
Gábor Roskó,
Gyula Várnai
documentation,
exhibition,
interview
1994
still Polyphony Barnabás Bencsik,
Suzanne Mészöly,
Soros Kortárs Képzőművészeti Központ (SCCA - Budapest)
and others
catalogue
1993
still Self War István Kovács,
Gyula Pintér,
Katalin Ladik
performance art
1993-11-20
still Shop within the Shop Balázs Beöthy
installation art
1993-11-01 - 1993-11-05
still Slot-Photographs of the Route of Tram Number 19 Gábor Császári
installation art,
photography
1993-11-28 - 1993-12-25
still Sztriptiz - Graffiti-Saving Project János Sugár
documentation,
project,
public art
1993
still Telephone Booth Gallery Zsolt Koroknai
public art
1993-11-22 - 1993-11-30
still That Crowns All ... László Hegedüs 2
installation art,
public art
1993-11-19 - 1993-12-04
still The Big Conference Table Éva Sebők
installation art,
public art
1993-11-13 - 1993-11-30
still The Brick Imre Bukta
installation art,
performance art
1993-11-02 - 1993-11-07
still The Law(n) of Science — Flourishing Ventilation József Tillmann
installation art
1993-11-13 - 1993-10-17
still Untitled Csaba Lódi,
Tamás Szigeti,
Gábor Valcz
installation art
1993-10-19
still Vacation in Budapest Ilona Kiss
graphic art
1993-11-18
still Visual Silence Gyula Július
project
1993-11-12
still Windows Erika Katalina Pásztor
installation art,
interactive art
1993-11-23 - 1993-11-30