[artinfo] Kiutak a boldogsag fele / Loophole to Happiness / Invitation / Trafo

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2010 november 11 - december 30.
Megnyito: *november 10. (szerda), 19h*

*Kiutak a boldogsag fele*
Kuratorok: Maja es Reuben Fowkes
Resztvevo muveszek: Adam Chodzko, Petra Feriancova, Sinisa Labrovic, 
Ciprian Muresan, Nemes Csaba, Nada Prlja, Janek Simon, Szabo Peter, 
Katarina Sevic

A kiallitas tarsadalmi es gazdasagi rendszerek peremvidekerol indulo 
menekuloutakat kovet, amelyek a szemelyes szabadsag fele vezetve az orom 
es a kiteljesedes lehetoseget kinaljak. A muvek kivetelek elkepzeleset, 
kijaratok fellelest es a neo-liberalis gazdasag sima felszinet megzavaro 
olyan strategiakat mutatnak be, melyek a kelet-europai munkasok 
ellenallasi modszereihez, igy a fusizashoz hasonloak. A kortars 
tarsadalmi es gazdasagi rend es szabalyrendszer kiskapui varatlan 
helyeken nyilnak: a szocialista unnepeket megidezo festmenyeken vagy a 
kockazat tarsadalmaba valo belepes elotti idok jatekainak szabadsagarol 
szolo gondolatok menten. A boldogsag es az onbeteljesites iranti vagy 
mellett a kiallitasban kontrasztkent jelenik meg az informacios domping 
okozta szellemi tulterheltseg. Ugyanitt talalkozhatunk olyan tudasformak 
felelesztesere tett kiserletekkel, melyek nem illeszkednek a 
kapitalizmus elveihez, valamint a gazdasagi erdekektol fuggetlen emberi 
kapcsolatok melletti allasfoglalassal is.

Partnerek:
Muzeum Sztuki, Łodz
Futura, Prague
amt_project, Bratislava

Tamogatok:
Nemzeti Kulturalis Alap
Lengyel Intezet


Trafo Kortars Muveszetek Haza / Trafo Galeria
1094 Budapest, Liliom utca 41
t/f.: +36 1 456-2044, fax: +36 1 456-2050
gallery at trafo.hu
Nyitva: keddtol vasarnapig 16-19h, eloadasi napokon 16-22h.
www.trafo.hu


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*Loophole to Happiness*
Trafó House of Contemporary Arts
11 November -- 30 December 2010
Opening: *10. November (Wednesday), 7pm*
Curated by: Maja and Reuben Fowkes

Participating artists: Adam Chodzko, Petra Feriancova, Sinisa Labrovic, 
Ciprian Muresan, Csaba Nemes, Nada Prlja, Janek Simon, Péter Szabó and 
Katarina Sevic.
The group show Loophole to Happiness takes as its starting point the 
existence of loopholes on the margins of social and economic systems 
that enhance personal freedom and offer the potential for pleasure and 
fulfilment. The exhibition examines the possibility of imagining 
exceptions, finding escape routes and evading the smooth surface of the 
neo-liberal capitalist order from the particular standpoint of worker's 
resistance strategies in socialist Eastern Europe. Loopholes in the 
rules and rationale of the contemporary social and economic order are 
discovered in unexpected places, from painterly evocations of social 
celebrations during communism, to meditations on the freedom of play in 
public spaces enjoyed before the advent of risk society. The aspiration 
for happiness and self-fulfilment is contrasted with the mental 
pollution emanating from information overload, along with a focus on 
attempts to revive non-capitalistic forms of knowledge and promote 
uneconomic attitudes in human relations.

Partners:
Muzeum Sztuki, Łodz
Futura, Prague
amt_project, Bratislava

Supported by:
National Cultural Fund
Polish Institute


Trafo -- House of Contemporary Arts, Trafo Gallery
1094 Budapest, Liliom utca 41.
t/f.: +36 1 456-2044, fax: +36 1 456-2050
gallery at trafo.hu http://www.trafo.hu
Open: Tuesday to Sunday 4-7pm, performance days 4-10pm