Department Relocation 5.

How do artistic and political radicalism come together? The Orfeo and Inconnu groups have criticized state Socialism in different decades from different standpoints, but their history exposes the conditions and possibilities of radical artistic and political criticism of the Kádár regime. By comparing the Inconnu and the Orfeo groups’ experiments to merge art and life, their politics and ideologies, their relation to amateur cultural production, and their gender relations, the exhibition shows that these trajectories are more than historical curiosities. The well-known story of young artists criticizing existing social relations and institutions was not a specificity of dissent under state Socialism, but can also serve as an example when we think about contemporary cultural and political activism. The guided tour will be held by Virág Buka (MA student of the Department of Aesthetics, ELTE) and Kristóf Nagy (one of the curators of the exhibition.) The guided tour will be followed by a film screening of the documentary about the Orfeo Group.

The program will be held in Hungarian.