Dóra Hegyi - Zsuzsa László

Direct Week

Keywords: artist as curator artist run space avant-garde collaboration conceptual art curatorial concept environment / installation festival irony metaphors of repression performative practices political reflection semi-public event site-specificity

1/10The poster of the banned Avant-Garde festival planned at the Bercsényi Club, Budapest, April, 1972 (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Centre)

Gyula Pauer: Marx-Lenin, 1971. It was exhibited as a leaflet with the cut out contour
folded on the newspaper clipping so that the visitors could open it.
(courtesy of the heirs of Gyula Pauer and Artpool Art Research Centre)

1/10Gyula Pauer: Marx-Lenin, 1971. It was exhibited as a leaflet with the cut out contour folded on the newspaper clipping so that the visitors could open it. (courtesy of the heirs of Gyula Pauer and Artpool Art Research Centre)

1/10Call for the Direct Week (courtesy of Tamás St.Auby)

Miklós Erdély: Brushwood is the Proletariat of Fuel.
Captions: Semi-Brushwood, Miscellaneous Brushwood, Brushwood to “Épater Le Bourgeois”,
Birch, Stone Stricken Brushwood, Brushwood Against Demagogy, Packed Brushwood
Brushwood As You Need! Photo: György Galántai (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Centre)

1/10Miklós Erdély: Brushwood is the Proletariat of Fuel. Captions: Semi-Brushwood, Miscellaneous Brushwood, Brushwood to “Épater Le Bourgeois”, Birch, Stone Stricken Brushwood, Brushwood Against Demagogy, Packed Brushwood Brushwood As You Need! Photo: György Galántai (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Centre)

Mihály Kornis, Gyula Pauer, Júlia Veres, Miklós Haraszti (from left to right) recording Gyula Pauer’s Pseudo Advertistment.
Photo: György Galántai
(courtesy of Artpool
Art Research Centre)

1/10Mihály Kornis, Gyula Pauer, Júlia Veres, Miklós Haraszti (from left to right) recording Gyula Pauer’s Pseudo Advertistment. Photo: György Galántai (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Centre)

1/10Miklós Erdély: Brushwood is the Proletariat of Fuel – action and object. Photo: György Galántai (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Centre)

1/10Tamás Szentjóby: Exclusion Exercise - Punishment-Preventive Auto-Therapy. Photo: Benke László (courtesy of Tamás St. Auby)

Visitors sleeping in the Chapel during the
Direct Week. The work Conflagration Mock Up by Tamás Szentjóby can be seen in the background.
Photo: György Galántai (courtesy of Artpool
Art Research Centre)

1/10Visitors sleeping in the Chapel during the Direct Week. The work Conflagration Mock Up by Tamás Szentjóby can be seen in the background. Photo: György Galántai (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Centre)

1/10Miklós Erdély: Brushwood is the Proletariat of Fuel – action and object. Photo: János Gulyás (courtesy of Artpool Art Research Centre)

Direct Week was an exhibition and event series that incorporated works and actions replying to Pauer’s and Szentjóby’s call, as well as lectures and screenings that were originally in the program of the “Avantgarde Festival” planned in April in a Budapest Club, but banned shortly before its scheduled date.

Documents:

Gyula Pauer, Tamás Szentjóby: Call for “Direct Week” (1972)

Gyula Pauer: II. Pseudo Manifesto (Advertisement) (1972)

Tamás Szentjóby: Exclusion exercise – Punishement-Preventive Autotheraphy (1969-72)

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): 126-135.

On the website of Artpool Art Research Center

Date: 6 – 9 July 1972

Organisers: Gyula Pauer (1941), Tamás Szentjóby (1944)

Participants: László Beke, Miklós Erdély, Gyula Gulyás, Miklós Haraszti, László Haris, Ágnes Háy, Tamás Hencze, Péter Lajtai, Péter Legéndy, József Molnár V., Gyula Pauer, Margit Rajczi, Tamás Szentjóby, Endre Tót

Location: Chapel Studio of György Galántai, Balatonboglár