Periphery – Revolution Special Issue Launch and Exhibition

May 25 – June 7, 2015

Organizer: RENEGÁT PROJEKT

We keep well away from the avant-garde and contemporary art. Our bread and butter is scandalous bluntness; our style is hyper-primitivism. Our aim is to be desperate rather than boring. We have no supporters behind us, because the only kind we would tolerate is one who never interferes. We explore the peripheries of Miskolc and of the world, documenting them in a self-made publication called Revolúció, which has been produced every 100 days since 2008 (or 4064). We believe that art cannot be taught and that not just anyone can become an artist, which is why we reject every form of academization and uniformity. Out of self-contradiction we carved the first truly Hungarian movement: what we say in one minute, we deny in the next if necessary. Creation, however, we understand in a classical sense: writing, painting, and graphics—because complicated questions have simple answers. We have no role models. We have no vision of the future. We even bite into ourselves. We proclaimed a cultural revolution, fully aware that people would consider us mad for it. Yet we are no greater fools than those who believe that what currently runs under the label of culture is good.

Participants: Thypus, Syporca Whandal

Venue: MÜSZI (1085 Budapest, 1 Blaha Lujza tér, Corvin Department Store, 3rd floor)