BOTH WAYS is a contemporary art exhibition that contributes, within the Science in the City Festival, to the edition of the EuroScience Open Forum (ESOF2020) in Trieste.
It is a physically polycentric exhibition, held in five European locations with headquarters in Trieste, as well as a replicated and extended online exhibition, virtually available worldwide to anyone who enters it with their avatar.
BOTH WAYS is the outcome of a European co-production project that Trieste Contemporanea initiated in March 2019 in partnership with the Central European Initiative (CEI) and with the Trieste International Foundation for Progress and Freedom of Sciences (FIT), which was proposed to a group of art and science institutions in Croatia, Hungary, Italy, Romania and Serbia, with the aim of bringing into dialogue the positions and specific ways of producing knowledge of art and science.
Therefore, BOTH WAYS final exhibition in Trieste is a co-production of University of Rijeka–Center for Innovative Media (CIM) at the Academy of Applied Arts (APURI) and Department of Mathematics (Croatia); Trieste Contemporanea (Italy); Scientifica, Cluj-Napoca (Romania); Center for the Promotion of Science (CPN), Belgrade (Serbia); Ludwig Museum–Museum of Contemporary Art and Hungarian Museum of Science, Technology and Transport, Budapest (Hungary).
BOTH WAYS Hungarian section, under the direction of Julia Fabényi, in Trieste presents a video art selection (works by Imre Lepsényi, László L. Révész, KristofLab – Kristóf Szabó, Kálmán Tarr and Otto Szabó Robotto, Zoltán Vadászi, Gyula Várnai, Tamás Waliczky) curated by Anna Bálványos to offer a brief overview of the history, the relationship and interaction between science and contemporary art in Hungary. At the beginning of this story, science fiction was the main topic dealt with and here two contemporary artists take this into account: László L. Révész in Transfer invents an unlikely use of the movement of the Earth to transport wine from Szekszárd to Lyon, two cities on the same latitude; Gyula Várnai in LEM resumes an interview with the famous Polish writer of the Seventies, Stanisław Lem (author of the novel Solaris, from which Andrei Tarkovsky drew his homonymous film in 1972), who combined science fiction with a deep existential and philosophical reflection and actively devoted himself to biological and cyber sciences. The “improper” use of scientific measuring instruments such as medical-diagnostic devices led Zoltán Vadászi to make air visible. An interdisciplinary collaboration led by Kálmán Tarr, in cooperation with Ottó Szabó puppet designer and sculptor, is about developing a head controlled device to move puppets and support the development of disabled children.
artists
Floriama Cândea (RO), George Crîngașu (RO), Bojan Crnković (HR), Horia Damian (RO), Ingeborg Fülepp (HR), Vladan Joler (SR), Filip Kostić (SR/USA), Imre Lepsényi (H), Vedrana Mikulić Crnković (HR), Marko Mrvoš (HR), Sorin Neamțu (RO), Roberto Paci Dalò (I), Matteo Pasquinelli (I), Mihai Plătică (RO), Dijana Protić (HR), László L. Révész (H), Laurențiu Ruță (RO), Catrinel Săbăciag (RO), KristofLab – Kristóf Szabó (H), OttoSzabó Robotto(H), Kálmán Tarr (H), Kristina Tica (SR), Zoltán Vadászi (H), Gyula Várnai (H), Victoria Vesna (SR/USA), Ioana Vreme Moser (RO), Tamás Waliczky (H).
curators
Miruna Amza (RO), Anna Bálványos (H), Miruna Batin (RO), Georgiana Buț (RO), Giuliana Carbi Jesurun (I), Maja Ćirić (SR), Dobrivoje Lale Eric (SR), Julia Fabényi (H), Ingeborg Fülepp (HR), Vedrana Mikulić Crnković (HR).
a co-production
Center for the Promotion of Science (CPN), Belgrade (SR)
Hungarian Museum of Science, Technology and Transport, Budapest (H)
Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest (H)
Scientifica, Cluj-Napoca (RO)
Trieste Contemporanea (TC), Trieste (I)
University of Rijeka – Center for Innovative Media (CIM) at the Academy of Applied Arts (APURI) and Department of Mathematics, Rijeka (HR).
supported by
Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia
Central European Initiative (CEI)
Trieste International Foundation (FIT).
