Gladness Demo

Gladness Demo 

October 8, 2017

Action by Endre Tóth

Today everyone has the right to protest when in distress, but then again hardly anyone takes to the streets out of their sheer joy. Although it might be advisable to demonstrate in times fraught with difficulties, on the brink of a crisis, we can still rejoice, also as a community. An act of joy and its public demonstration is a snub par excellence to an oppressive political system. In 2013 the protesters at Endre Tóth’s Zer0-demonstration marched for nothing, now during Gaudiopolis – The city of joy they will do so to showcase the joy of demonstration itself.

Organizers: Kristóf Kovács and the TELEP team

Public place, start: Pesti Vigadó

Organizing institution: Telep Gallery

Photo: Zsolt Balázs © OFF-Biennale Budapest archive

Photo: Zsolt Balázs © OFF-Biennale Budapest archive

Photo: Zsolt Balázs © OFF-Biennale Budapest archive