Freedom Industry Broadcast, Channel 4 – reading action and happening by Tibor Hajas
Author: Dóra Hegyi - Zsuzsa László
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)
- Photo 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)
- Miklós Haraszti’s entry in the guest book (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Center)
Date: 21 July 1973
Participant: Tibor Hajas (1946-1980)
Location: Chapel Studio of György Galántai, Balatonboglár
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.