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Alfred Palestra<\/span><\/h1>\n

April 23 \u2013 June 4, 2015<\/h2>\n

The project entitled Alfred Palestra<\/em> was first realised at the 2014 Rennes Biennale, with the participation of students from a local secondary school. At the end of the 19th century, the school (today Lyc\u00e9e \u00c9mile Zola) was the site of two important events in cultural history: the second Dreyfus trial was held in the gymnasium of the school Alfred Jarry was attending. The possible meeting of Alfred Jarry and Alfred Dreyfus in this space symbolises the coincidence of the crises of the republic with the birth of the avant-garde, and it is this concomitance that the project of Katarina \u0160evi\u0107 and Tehnica Schweiz reflects on.<\/span><\/p>\n

The process was realised with the participation of the schools\u2019 student drama circle, who used the gym, which once served as the location of the trial, for their weekly rehearsals. The aim of the work conducted with the students was to confront participants \u2013 through the persons of the two Alberts \u2013 with the ghosts of the place and the meaningful heritage of the school. At the workshop, the artists and the students partook in an exercise of interpreting excerpts from texts of two parallel literary canons: the books of Alfred Dreyfus, which he read between 1895 and 1898, during his imprisonment on Devil\u2019s Island, and Jarry\u2019s library \u2013 a collection of the 27 books that appear in one of his one of his most important works, the Exploits and Opinions of Dr. Faustroll, Pataphysician. This collective reading exercise became an alternative method of interpreting the era. The costumes and symbolic, moving wooden objects, which had been created for the performance and the workshop, are displayed at the acb Gallery.<\/span><\/p>\n

In conjunction with the exhibition, a performance that has been adapted for Hungarian audiences is also presented at Budapest\u2019s Alternative Secondary School of Economics, with the participation of former and current students. Alfred Palestra is an alternative teaching method, which aids students in becoming acquainted with an important turn in the history of European culture in a collective, cooperative atmosphere. The method offers an alternative to existing educational schemes in which students are expected to become familiar with, and assimilate, study material, thus wishing to push the boundaries of the current, centralised Hungarian educational system.<\/p>\n

The exhibition and the accompanying performance bring to the foreground some pressing questions that are of relevance in Hungary today. Most importantly: how could the unfolding avant-garde experiments of the day address the deepest crises of society and the republic?<\/div>\n

The detailed English language documentation of the Rennes project can be found here:
\nhttps:\/\/tehnicaschweiz.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Alfred_Palestra.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n

Exhibiting artists: Katarina \u0160evi\u0107, Tehnica Schweiz<\/p>\n

Curators: L\u00e1z\u00e1r Eszter, Nagy Edina<\/p>\n

Venue: acb Gal\u00e9ria (1068 Budapest, Kir\u00e1ly u. 76.)<\/p>\n

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Photo: The Orbital Strangers Project, Csaba Aknay \u00a9 OFF-Biennale Budapest archive<\/p><\/div>\n

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Photo: The Orbital Strangers Project, Csaba Aknay \u00a9 OFF-Biennale Budapest archive<\/p><\/div>\n

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Photo: The Orbital Strangers Project, Csaba Aknay \u00a9 OFF-Biennale Budapest archive<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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