Miklós Erhardt

Miklós Erhardt

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Havanna 2006

Conceived by the artist as a social research project in a housing complex in the suburbs of Budapest. During the course of May 2006, Erhardt rented a shopfront space on the ground floor of a high-rise building and started renovating it. The resulting film documents the artist experiencing the potential of his own interventions in a sensitive social setting. By including the proposals of neighbors and passersby for intermediate use of the space, Erhardt’s film is an attempt to shed new light on a community suffering from prejudices and imposed stereotypes, while the work analyses the construction of a social reality in post-communist Hungary through the portrayal of an “Advice Seeking Office”. At the same time Havanna also addresses issues of artistic failure and success, promise and lost opportunity…
Miklós Erhardt

Miklós Erhardt

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Vilém Flusser: We Shall Survive in the Memory of Others 2010

Flusser presents here theories that focus on the believability of the electronic image, the role of religion and memory, as well as the new language systems and apparatus of the digital avant-garde era. — Television Image and Political Space in the Light of the Romanian Revolution (Lecture, Budapest, the 7th of April, 1990) — On technical images, chance, consciousness and the individual (Interview by Miklós Peternák in München, the 17th of October 1991) — On religion, memory and synthetic image (Interview by László Beke and Miklós Peternák in Budapest, the 7th of April 1990) — On writing, complexity and the technical revolutions (Interview by Miklós Peternák in Osnabrück, European Media Art Festival, September 1988)