Lumen Station #3 and #4

April 25 and May 22, 2015

In the framework of Lumen Station Program, an optional project will be highlighted. Instead of the exhibited workof art, the focus will be on its creator, the creative process, and the context. Co-authored by the artist or curator, andmembers of Lumen, a publication will be realeased accompanying each promoted project or research project. These publications will be available at all stations installed by Lumen, and online at the website.

Lumen Station #3: Reap and Sow publication launch

April 25, 2015

Having received a lot of attention by contemporary art recently, the topic of the Lumen Station publication will be agricultural production. More specifically, strategies of self-sustenance and survivial for individuals, small groups or a whole society, that have emerged primarily, although not eclusively within art projects, and were created by artists.Utopias and dystopias, the potential of a forever inaccessible, brave better world, or that of a collapse into darker systems following present-day negative tendencies-these concepts have always accompanied the history of humankind. However, in the recent past there has been an inevitable abundance of theories forecasting a collapse, and, as a response to these, agricultural production, self sustenance and return to nature became optimistical,counter-utopian ideas. This phenomenon is not so much aesthetical but rather social, but in fact it does keep artists with social responsibilities occupied.

Editor: Virág Major

Co–Editors: Krisztina Erdei, Gergely László, Tamés Kaszás, Katarina Šević, Judit Szalipszki

Contributors: Fernando Garcia Dory, Gergely Horváth–Róbert Nagy, Endre Lehel Paksi, Valentina Karga, Nils Norman, My villages Project, Klaus Pichler, Collective Plant, Mécs Miklós, Claire Pentecost, Fallen Fruit, Finger Group, Tamás Kaszás

Venue: Lumen Zöldség és Közösségi Szolgáltató (1072 Budapest, Klauzál tér 14.) 

Lumen Station #4: Photography & Activism publication launch

May 22, 2015

This Station publication is co-edited by the „Photography & Activism” Group. Established by coordinator Gabriella Csoszó, the group was brought forth in search of new and realistic possibilities of solidarity and representation. The course “Photography & Activism” consists of lectures, workshops embodying both activism and photography, and dedicated field work, in collaboration with prominent civil organization A Város Mindenkié (The City Belongs To Everybody). The publication to be released now features the work and the methodology of the group, with specific emphasis on helping those who feel like taking up photography with a similar activist attitude. Series of photos and captions / texts shed light on the quotidian activities of taking social responsibilities, functioning of the media, and results of the project.

The publication is in Hungarian.

The publication will be presented by the editors.

Editors: Dina Balogh, Zsófia Börcsök, Judit Csata, Gabriella Csoszó, Károly Fábián, Dóra Papp, Ágnes Palotás, József Serfőző, István Várady, Anna Vörös

Co-editor: Krisztina Erdei

Graphic design: Katarina Šević

Texts: Dina Balogh, Balázs Böcskei, Judit Csatlós, Gabriella Csoszó, Mariann Dósa, Ágnes Palotás, Dóra Papp, Tessza Udvarhelyi, István Várady, Anna Vörös, The City Is for All group, Photography and Activism group

Photographs: Dina Balogh, Zsófia Börcsök, Gabriella Csoszó, Károly Fábián, Ágnes Palotás, Dóra Papp, István Várady, Anna Vörös, Photography and Activism group, The City Is for All group

Drawings: Dan Perjovschi

Proofreading: Judit Csatlós

Venue: Lumen Café (1072 Budapest, Klauzál tér 14.)