{"id":818,"date":"2012-08-23T12:44:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T12:44:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tranzit.org\/posttransition\/?page_id=818"},"modified":"2012-08-23T14:57:48","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T14:57:48","slug":"janos-sugar-visual-artist-1958","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tranzit.org\/posttransition\/?page_id=818","title":{"rendered":"J\u00e1nos SUG\u00c1R, visual artist, 1958"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>What role did the regime change play in your professional career?<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><br \/>\nAs, from the beginning (since about the \u201880s), I had been moving around in the nonofficial sphere, I only noticed that my growing boldness resulted in increasingly more freedom. In reality, it was only then that the obstacles which had hindered the unfolding of many ambitions were beginning to disappear.<\/p>\n<p>To me, this was not so much a shift as it was an opportunity for the values that I had always considered important to come out into the open.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>What cornerstone events or publications in art \/ politics \/ public life \/ the professional sphere do you remember, and which of these influenced you, directly or indirectly?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>(To use the terms cornerstone or turning point would be an exaggeration; they signify something different. I would like to mention the following as important, guiding, reaffirming, inspiring, encouraging, enlightening, etc. influences).<\/p>\n<p>Art:<\/p>\n<p>1979 \u2013 86 Indigo, Mikl\u00f3s Erd\u00e9ly<br \/>\n1980 \u2013 180 group concerts, Beatrice concerts<br \/>\n1980 Jov\u00e1novics\u2019 exhibition at the French Institute<br \/>\n1980 \u2013 87 B\u00f6r\u00f6cz-R\u00e9v\u00e9sz performances<br \/>\n1983 \u2013 95 BBS, films, membership, filmmaking, Toldi Cinema<br \/>\n1983 \u2013 85\u00a0Cseresorozat [Exchange Series], Tal\u00e1n Sebe\u0151<br \/>\n1985 G\u00e1bor Litv\u00e1n\u2019s activity<br \/>\n1989 activity of the \u00dajlak Group<br \/>\n1993 St. Auby\u2019s\u00a0Statue of Liberty\u2019s Soul<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Politics \/ public sphere:<\/p>\n<p>1981 The editors of Besz\u00e9l\u0151 provided their names and addresses on the cover page<br \/>\n1989 Dismantling of the Berlin Wall \/ Romanian revolution<\/p>\n<p>1991\u00a0<a href=\"www.mrf.hu\/mediaresearchhun.html\">The Media Were With Us<\/a> conference<br \/>\nSquat on F\u0151 utca [Main Street]<br \/>\n1991-2001 Yugoslav Wars<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Professional, publications:<\/p>\n<p>1980 \u2013 Artpool Newsletter<br \/>\npublished texts by L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Beke, G\u00e1bor Attalai, Mikl\u00f3s Petern\u00e1k<br \/>\nB\u00f6lcs\u00e9szindex [Liberal Arts Index] (= C\u00e1pa, J\u00f3vil\u00e1g, Tart\u00f3shull\u00e1m)<br \/>\n1983 \u2013 85\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.artpool.hu\/Research\/ALonline.html\">AL<\/a>, (= Aktu\u00e1lis\/Alternat\u00edv\/Artpool Lev\u00e9l)<br \/>\n1984 \u2013 \u00d6rley Circle<br \/>\n1990 \u2013 Founding of the <a href=\"http:\/\/intermedia.c3.hu\/\">Intermedia<\/a> Program<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Through what channels and from what sources have you received your knowledge about this period?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I experienced it first hand, no mediating channels were necessary, I lived it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Has your picture of the regime change and its ideas been altered \u2013 if yes, in what way, and as a result of what \u2013 in the past 10 \/ 5 \/ 1 year(s)?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The spontaneous, collective momentum that could be experienced and was unfolding between, say, \u201986 and \u201994 went against political interests and, clearly as a result of the toxic effects of politics, gradually and discernibly lost its steam.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What role did the regime change play in your professional career? 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