12 Nov 2012

TRANSPRAXIS International Center for Art and Theory

TRANSPRAXIS The Hungarian University of Fine Arts (MKE) announces the Transpraxis International Center for Art and Theory - an initiative of teachers from within the distinct teaching capacities of the university and the International Students office.

The objective of the Center is to promote and encourage practical and theoretical work - an artistic praxis; The Center draws upon and invigorates the cross-disciplinary practices that now constitute the broad spheres of artistic activity.

The Center is international in scope and encourages cooperation and working relationships with other universities, other centers of artistic activity and teachers who seek to expand a working knowledge base. Center programs are intended to broaden and enrich the learning experience of local and visiting Erasmus students, the pedagogical development of the faculty and advance an international network of students, artists and educators.

During the Fall Semester Transpraxis has developed the following activities:

The project SRIAT: 'SRIAT: Social Responsibility In Art Today!' organized by Igor Metropol Association in collaboration with the Intermedia and the Art Theory and Curatorial Studies Departments. SRIAT invited the German artist Thomas Kilpper to hold a 2 week long practice-oriented workshop questioning the complex role(s) of artists within current societies. Fifteen students are participating in the workshop; The conclusion of the workshop will be an exhibition on November 06.

Guest lectures

Emese Kürti November 15 / The Happening as non-art and a political act
Coming from poetry, with no institutional frame, the first Hungarian Happening, The Lunch – In memoriam Batu Khan took place in June 1966. This radical moment, has its basis and roots in the activity of the concrete music composer and intuitive actionist, dr. László Végh. Kürti will discuss the first traces of actionism leading to the Happening (as the metaphor of cultural enemy of the secret police) and the consequences of this anti-art form, which deconstructed the monolithic artistic system of the communist apparatus. Emese Kürti is an art historian at the Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest.

Lilla Khoór November 29 / Past Perfect Simple and Continuous Tension
Lilla Khoór will show some examples of her documentary video works based on the different use of cultural symbols and contemporary Hungarian political discourses connected to them. She will show documentation of her exhibition of political propaganda materials from 1990 onwards, and discuss questions about various political representations of the family, the nation, and democracy, and the use of documentary material.

Erhardt Miklós December 6 / The Context of Work
What does the context offer to art and what does it take away from it - if it is missing?
Erhardt will discuss aspects of the development of Hungarian and the international art world from the sixties-seventies on.
Erhardt Miklós (1966 Budapest) is an artist, professor of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design, lives and works in Budapest and Vienna.

Contact: transpraxis.center@gmail.com / Web: Transpraxis