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Freedom Industry Broadcast, Channel 4 – reading action and happening by Tibor Hajas

Keywords: artist run space interactivity performative practices semi-public event social criticism
Photo of the action. Photo: Júlia Veres (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Center)
1/4Photo of the action. Photo: Júlia Veres (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Center)
Photo of the action. Photo: Júlia Veres (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Center)
1/4Photo of the action. Photo: Júlia Veres (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Center)
Photo of the action. Photo: Júlia Veres (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Center)
1/4Photo of the action. Photo: Júlia Veres (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Center)
Miklós Haraszti’s entry in the guest book (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Center)
1/4Miklós Haraszti’s entry in the guest book (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Center)

The text was read as part of an action performed in the Chapel Studio in Balatonboglár in 1973. While reading out the text Hajas tied the audience together, then burned the ropes according to a guestbook entry.

Documents:

Tibor Hajas: Freedom Industry Broadcast, Channel 4 (1973)

Miklós Haraszti: Guest-book entry about Tibor Hajas’s reading action (1973)

Source: Törvénytelen avantgárd. Galántai György balatonboglári kápolnaműterme 1970–1973 [Illegal Avant-garde, the Balatonboglár Chapel Studio of György Galántai 1970–1973], eds. Júlia Klaniczay and Edit Sasvári  (Artpool–Balassi, Budapest, 2003): 160-1.

Date: 21 July 1973

Participant: Tibor Hajas (1946-1980)

Location: Chapel Studio of György Galántai, Balatonboglár