tranzit is a contemporary art program supported by the Erste Bank Group
The exhibition Parallel Chronologies and the symposium The Invisible
History of Exhibitions is part of the international project Art Always Has
Its Consequences co-financed by the Culture 2007 program of the European
Union (partners: WHW Zagreb, tranzit. hu, Muzeum Sztuki Łódź, kuda.org
Novi Sad).
[…] for example there was an action that I came up with there, a ribbon bearing the three colors of the Hungarian flag was stretched across the entrance with a sign next to it about how “Today YOU open the exhibition”. Well now, scissors were also fastened to the door post on a short string so that no one could cut this ribbon. I was well aware of how much sweat and sacrifice was in what we were exhibiting there, as was the case for the members of the Pécs Workshop as well. And I said, whoever enters should bow down and slip under this ribbon. So those who bent down and slipped under the ribbon, that was so gratifying to us, that lo, we had not worked in vain. And then comrades of the various councils from nearby towns like Kaposvár slipped under the ribbon, in dark attire, to verify that nothing had been put on exhibit that they had not signed.
(Interview with István Harasztÿ, 1998)
“In the first version the ribbon was a shred of toilet paper and you could cut it, in other words I thought that everyone should open the exhibition at their own risk, the artists should not be responsible for everything, so I called it the action of assuming responsibility. Since too many people came and we had to replace the ribbon continuously, Harasztÿ came up with a better version, which I documented with a series of slides."
(György Galántai, manuscript, 1998)
Source: Artpool
Translation: Zsuzsanna Szegedy-Maszák
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