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💚A nearly 600-page book about the 20+ years of the @tranzitorg network in Central Eastern Europe was launched yesterday at @tranzit.hu in Budapest. It features a visual diary of our journey with @viktor_szeri and @tomipall aka @hollow.systems to an imaginary underground culb in Tbilisi called Aura. Not only was this journey beautiful but the nearly 5 years I worked as a curator at tranzit in Budapest was also a very defining period in my life. It was my first workplace, where I started numerous long term projects including my research on Tamás Király. Every time I return, I return there with a warm heart. This book was edited by @boriborbalasoos and @floragado ~ Thank you for their beautiful work 👏🏻 If you're around, join the next book launch at the opening weekend of @labiennale on May 9th at Paradiso Restaurant, Castello 1260, Giardini della Biennale with participants including @paul_bpreciado and @dorisuhlich at 12:30 pm. There are several qr codes in our map (which is part of the "Rehearsing Future" chapter) which bring you even further into the universe of @hollow.systems 🔮

@dikfagazine is back with BUDAPEST issue dedicated to queer history of Hungary! In response to Hungarian government’s ongoing attempts to make queers invisible, together with @jule.core we created the issue filled with diks and sweaty bodies of all kinds, alongside solid archival research on girls, bois, and trans folks fucking around and subverting the system from the 19th century to today. 📍WORLDWIDE DISTRIBUTION VERY SOON 😎 Designed by the amazing @neuemartin DIK BUDAPEST on 144 pages and in 10 chapters - will gide you through the city’s parks and bath houses in times when queers were blackmailed by the secret police, gay and lesbian samizdats, 1980s performance art and avantgarde fashion, as well as the beginning of LGBTQ+ activism after the fall of communism. Published by @queerarchivesinstitute in collaboration with @acbgallery Chief editor: @karolradziszewski Guest editor: @jule.core Design: @neuemartin Proofreading: Tanya Marquardt Photo editor: @krzysiek_krzysztofiak

did this beautiful shoot with @karolradziszewski and @jule.core when it was still sunny outside… @dikfagazine hungary issue launches 7pm tonight at @trafohouse in budapest!

🔴 @jule.core the curator of @karolradziszewski ’s Sinners exhibition at acb Attachment talks about the origin of works in the and their joint research about Hungarian Queer culture. @dikfagazine newest issue will be published at @trafohouse this Friday (28 November, 2025)! ❗️Save the date❗️

BABY 🔥 a retrospective by @hollow.systems 🔮 11.07 @cndb.ro 🐉11.09 @trafohouse Created with @viktor_szeri & @tomipall Sound by @711f With contributions by @janusko.klaudia @fantasticmr.speed @oberfrankreka @rramonatakacs @creamcore.cakes #molnarandras

🪨 "𝙄 𝙩𝙝𝙞𝙣𝙠 𝙢𝙮 𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙞𝙚𝙨 𝙤𝙨𝙘𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙗𝙚𝙩𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙣 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙡-𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙥𝙝𝙚𝙣𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙖 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙛𝙖𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙨𝙮 𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙝𝙚𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙘𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙮." @tomipall is an interdisciplinary artist from Budapest whose work merges digital media, video games, installation, performance, and myth-making to explore the politics of technology, Eastern Europe, and nonhuman storytelling. He is the co-founder of art collectives @ritesnetwork and @hollow.systems . —Gyula Muskovics (@jule.core ) speaks to his friend and collaborator Tamás Páll on the occasion of the exhibition Emergency Frequencies, where Rumble premiered. The show (featuring artists like Nikita Kadan, Tuan Andrew Nguyen, or Lawrence Abu Hamdan) was part of the 5th @offbiennalebudapest (May 8-June 15, 2025), Hungary’s largest contemporary art event. ⟶ Ready to read on Easterndaze. #emguide

Last Saturday, I did this very simple durational piece. I put on my DIY “minotaur” mask, fastened a choker around my neck, and chained myself to a column for about 20 minutes. I began to lean outward, gradually choking myself and slipping into a haze—eventually nearing faintness, which genuinely surprised me. Suddenly, I snapped out of the dissociative state. But then, I allowed myself to sink back into it. And that’s how it went for the remaining 15 minutes—I was drifting in and out of this strange space where I could feel pain. At some point, I had a monologue (prerecorded) about how doninance and submission are actually about trust and equality. I took off the mask, kept struggling for a bit and released myself in the end. There was, of course, an idea behind it, but I wanted to find a more personal meaning. Initially, I wanted to explore how you can relive the high of those very first moments. What I love about beginnings is that you’re completely formless and free. It’s beautiful, because you—and anyone involved—can become anything. But sometimes it becomes a struggle, because this formlessness is no longer within reach, and you find yourself chasing shadows—like a gambler haunted by a single win, doomed to lose ever since. And you want it again and again, and what you get is only pain. And there's a scenario where that magical spark is still there but it's hard to find it, to clear the fog and begin cherishing it again. ... 🤷🏻‍♂️ Whatever the situation may be—what I learned afterwards is that you can always take a break. And if you’re too exhausted, sweating, worn thin, and your body is shaking too heavily—you can unchain yourself, say thank you, and walk away. And maybe come back later and try it again. * The performance was the opening scene of ARCHIVE MMXXXV by @hollow.systems at Happy Nation – A Night of Performance, Music, and Transnational Alliance co-created with @jelena__viskovic , @cedo.yu , @marijaivagocic , Andris Molnar, @viktor_szeri , and @tomipall at @aqb_budapest Music was composed by @711f Photo: @neogradykissbarnabas

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Ešte do konca januára môžete navštíviť aktuálnu výstavu Archive III (Baby) maďarského kolektívu Hollow. 🫂 „Umelecká prax Hollow je z veľkej časti založená na performance, kde sa stretáva choreografia a inštalácia s live action role-play (LARP), hernými prvkami a technikami rozšírenej reality. Od vzniku svojho prvého projektu, vytvára kolektív imerzívne prostredia, ktoré sa nachádzajú v blízkej budúcnosti alebo niekde neďaleko časopriestoru, v ktorom žijeme. Tie nás často vedú do temných, schátraných, apokalyptických realít, kde prosperujú nové komunity. Bolo by príliš zjednodušujúce a povrchné vnímať surrealistické krajiny Hollow ako dystopické vízie, hoci sa tak na prvý pohľad môžu javiť. „Prototypy sveta“ kolektívu sú temné a vynárajú sa z ruín súčasnosti, ale znamená to automaticky, že predstavujú niečo nežiadúce? Táto otázka možno odráža širší zápas o predstave blízkej či vzdialenej budúcnosti a alternatívnych spôsobov spolužitia.” - úryvok z kurátorského textu Natálie Drtinovej Pozývame k prebádaniu svetov aktuálnej výstavy a odporúčame využiť prvky rozšírenej reality pomocou umiestneného QR kódu pre intenzívnejší zážitok. 🕒 STR - PIA / 15.00 - 18.00 🕐 SO / 13.00 - 18.00 Foto @cibiscuit Výstavy tejto galérie z verejných zdrojov podporil @fond_na_podporu_umenia . Fond na podporu umenia je hlavným partnerom projektu. Projekt ďalej podporilo Mesto Košice. @kosice_official @creativeindustrykosice // EN – anglická verzia v komentároch – english version in the comments

Tonight is the opening of Hollow - Archive III (Baby) at @sopa_gallery The multimedia installation Archive III (Baby) is the latest chapter of The Archive, an evolving meta-project that revolves around Hollow’s fictional universes and their worlds’ interconnectedness. At the center of the exhibition is a character called Baby, a virtual offspring, that invites the audience on a guided tour and talks about the exhibited objects from their personal point of view. In addition to offering a unique insight into Hollow’s functioning, the show speculates about what would an artwork say about its creators if it could speak. Most of the objects on display belong to an imaginary place called Aura, that Hollow has created over their research on collective worldbuilding and shared imagination. An immersive theater piece, Aura premiered at the Trafó House of Contemporary Arts in Budapest in 2023, where some of these objects were used as props, and among its main questions was “What makes a group more than the sum of its members?” While Aura envisioned this emergent entity as an imaginary friend that could show guidance to the artists in the creative process, Baby is more akin to a mirror through which they can look at themselves from the perspective of what they have given birth to. The exhibition merges a series of recent works in which the three artists reflect on their micro-community and explore the process of art-making as world-making. Meanwhile, the video introducing Baby is created specifically for this occasion as a demo of an upcoming, larger-scale piece in which Hollow explores the functioning of art collectives as a form of care-work and an alternative to the nuclear family model. Curated by Natálie Drtinová Exhibition opening: December 10, 2024 Exhibition duration: December 11, 2024 - January 31, 2025 Šopa Gallery, Hlavná 40, Košice Opening hours: WED - FRI / 3.00 - 6.00 PM SAT / 1.00 - 6.00 PM

My interview with the amazing performance pioneer Pat Oleszko also got published by @thekitchen_nyc LINK IN BIO OR HERE: /on-mind/everything-was-perfect-interview-with-pat-oleszko/ Pat has been an important pehomenon in New York City since the early '70s. She has been on the cover of @ms_magazine as the Statue of Liberty, befriended Elizabeth Taylor while wearing a NYC Checker Cab outfit at @themuseumofmodernart , dressed Nureyev in a Santa Claus costume for @esquire and used to sneak into the World Trade Center in the '80s after drunken nights. She was just a few blocks away when the twin towers fell in 2001. Over time, however, she has also learnt how to use humor in coping with loss. Her two-dinemsional archives are about to find their place at the "unfortunately named" @faleslibrary and I visited her when she was revisiting her whole body of work and preaparing it for the big move. Pat had a really cool show—the first one since the '90s—at @davidpeterfrancis earlier this summer. Thank you Pat and thank you @waterman64 as well for publishing this interview. List of images: 1. Patty’s Inferno, 2008, MacDowell, Peterborough NH 2. MS cover, 1976, NYC, Pierre Houles 3. O-men (side view,) 1976, Artpark, Lewiston, NY, Paula Gillen 4. Coat of Arms, 1973, NYC, Neil Selkirk 5. New Yuk Women: 1971, NYC, Neil Selkirk: Sally Sex-retary

I disappeared for the whole summer because it was a fuckin busy one. One thing I was working on was my doctoral thesis, which I submitted yesterday at @mome_budapest 🫠 Yes, soon you all need to call me dr. Muskovics... Its title is "Fashion as Worldbuilding in the Years of Transition"and it explores the genre of fashion/costume performance in Budapest, Moscow, Tbilisi, Riga, and New York at the turn of the ‘80s and the ‘90s, a time when grand narratives and big truths collapsed because of different reasons in different parts of the world, from the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe and the dissolution of the Soviet Union in the Eastern Bloc, to the spread of AIDS in the West. It is in Hungarian and the defence will be at some point in spring but stay tuned if you are in New York this fall because I' m coming and it looks like I will give lectures at @parsonsschoolofdesign and @faleslibrary The exact dates are not confirmed yet. Ps. I'm still looking for a convenient little (or huge but cheap) room in Bushwick for the period between October 1 and next March. HMU if you know of any available please. List of pics: 1. Tamás Király: Red Star Dress, 1987, Budapest. Photo: Jonathan Csaba Almási 2. Dress by Katya Filippova, 1980s, Moscow 3. Gosha Ostretsov: War, 1987, Moscow 4. El Kazovsky: Dzhan Panopticon, 1986, Budapest 5. Natia Bakhtadze's fashion show at Lado Burduli's apartment in Tbilisi, 1995. Photo: Guram Tsibakhashvili 6. Chubika: Dead Army, 1996. Photo: Giorgi Sumbadze, Gareji Desert 7. Zaliko Berger's fashion collection at the Avant-Garde Fashion Assembly, 1996, Tbilisi. Photo: Guram Tsibakhashvili 8. Johanna Constantine from Blacklips Performance Cult wearing the "Toast Dress," early '90s, New York. Photo: Paul Brissman