On Sunday afternoon, February 8, different genres and ways of thinking drift into the same room and start to overlap. Four short artist presentations arrive from four corners of the world: Cyprus, Portugal, the Netherlands, and Chile. From there, the afternoon moves into a seminar led by Zoltán Ginelli, with a focus on critical geography and global history. The day then slips into an informal exhibition opening, and ends with a concert by El Kanász quartet.
👥Programme
15:30–17:00 Artist presentations
17:00–18:30 Hungary and Colonialism: Seminar by Zoltán Ginelli
18:30–19:00 Pop-up exhibition opening
19:00–20:00 El Kanász. Psychedelic and pulsating jazz and electronics quartet
The program is held in English.
👥 Presenting artists: Carlos Noronha Feio (Portugal), Andreas Mallouris (Cyprus) , Sithabile Mlotshwa (The Netherlands), and Rocío Guerrero Marín (Chile)
👥 In their short presentations, the artists give a glimpse into their practices and research territories. Noronha Feio works with questions of identity, and power relations through performative and installation-based forms; Guerrero Marín approaches relationality by emphasizing sharing, listening and presence; Mlotshwa critically maps Dutch and European colonial legacies, slavery, and racism through trade and maritime chartered companies; and Mallouris develops installations and research-driven pieces around queer bodies and desire, archives and practices, memory and politics of sexualities.
👥Geographer and global historian Zoltán Ginelli’s (Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oriental Studies) seminar opens a shared line of thought about the legacy of colonialism and its often silenced (and not so silenced) effects on the world today. The conversation focuses on how coloniality manifested in the global history of Hungary, and how it has become politicized in recent years due to the country’s new forms of global integration.
👥 After the seminar, the artists’ pop-up exhibition opens, accompanied by wine and pogácsa. The exhibition can be visited only on this day.
👥 El Kanász quartet featuring: Nándor Hevesi (bass/DX7), Ádám Jávorka (viola), Árpád Kiss (trumpet, electronics), Zsolt Varga (sax, electronics).
👥Entry to the concert is donation-based; the suggested amount is 2000 HUF.
👥Dobozi21 is a long-running, artist-organised space within Budapest’s independent underground scene. The founding members of the collective, including the Buharov brothers (Igor & Ivan), have been shaping this landscape for years, which is why it is a special occasion that they have welcomed this collaboration.
The community brings together filmmakers, musicians, visual artists, and performance artists, and it also serves as the base of the Káoszkemping team.
👥The event is part of the Contested Desires – Constructive Dialogues project, which is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union and supported by the National Cultural Fund.