Youth culture is known to manifest itself in a variety of ways. One of its most appealing forms of commonality is fandom: young people feeling aligned with any of the subcultures whose cohesion relies primarily on a fixation with a sports team or popular entertainment (music, film, TV, Internet, digital gaming culture, fashion, literature, comics) and is nurtured by body art, raves, moves or theatrical performances as experimental spaces. Fantum should not be equated with the interest of the “normal” public in pop culture; rather, it takes the shape of a heightened form of popular culture and seeks to differentiate itself. Incidentally, very few visual artists would unequivocally describe themselves as fans of a given band or style of pop music.
The exhibition Passion: Fan Behaviour and Art focuses on the realm of rock music. It explores fan behaviour bearing in mind that before the advent of the Internet and social media music fans communicated among each other by writing letters, exchanging pictures, designing posters, publishing magazines, taping concerts and radio broadcasts or decorating cassette covers, often interweaving rumours and fictional accounts with poems and declarations of love in an effort to keep the distance between artists and fans as small as possible.
Through their works the artists in this exhibition examine how the fans’ torrents of passion manifest themselves, which are the objects of desire, and how mass media and pop culture deal with fan attitude. And, naturally, they speak of the rock-musical interests and dreams of their own teenage years. Their works reveal the power of the analog message: when we document something, photograph it, film it, paint it on canvas or on the wall, put it on a pedestal, write it on our skin, it means we take it seriously – all the more so when we question our own fan behaviour. As was to be expected, expressions of worship and homage abound in this exhibition.
The exhibition is organised in cooperation with Budapest Spring Festival.
Sponsors:
Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Budapest Spring Festival, EMMI, Müpa Budapest, Observer, Hotel Nemzeti Budapest, Hilltop Winery
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Special guided tour with Balázs Pándi in the two temporary exhibitions 18. June, 2016, 00:00–00:00
Guided tour (in Hungarian) with Balázs Pándi, singer, in the temporary exhibitions titled Passion. Fan Behaviour and Art and Rock/Space/Time .
Admission with a valid exhibition ticket. No extra charge applies.
Passion. Fan Behaviour and Art - Film screening in the exhibition rooms 17. June, 2016, 00:00–00:00
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Special guided tour with Bíborka Bocskor in the two temporary exhibition 11. June, 2016, 00:00–00:00
Guided tour (in Hungarian) with Bíborka Bocskor, singer, in the temporary exhibitions titled Passion. Fan Behaviour and Art and Rock/Space/Time.
Admission with a valid exhibition ticket. No extra charge applies.
Passion. Fan Behaviour and Art - Film screening in the exhibition rooms 10. June, 2016, 00:00–00:00
Screenings in the exhibition rooms
Today's screening:
Special guided tour with Iván Vitáris in the temporary exhibitions 4. June, 2016, 00:00–00:00
Guided tour (in Hungarian) with Iván Vitáris, singer of rock band Ivan & The Parazol, in the temporary exhibitions titled Passion. Fan Behaviour and Art
and Rock/Space/Time.
Admission with a valid exhibition ticket. No extra charge applies.
Special guided tour with Jenő Menyhárt in the two temporary exhibition 28. May, 2016, 00:00–00:00
Guided tour (in Hungarian) with Jenő Menyhárt, musician, in the temporary exhibitions titled Passion. Fan Behaviour and Art and Rock/Space/Time.
Admission with a valid exhibition ticket. No extra charge applies.
Passion. Fan Behaviour and Art - Film screening in the exhibition rooms 27. May, 2016, 00:00–00:00
Screenings in the exhibition rooms
Today's screening:
Friday, 27 May 2016, 6 p.m.:
La Cicatrice Intérieure, d.: Philippe Garrel, 90 min, 1972
Forthcoming events:
Special guided tour with Tibor Legát in the two temporary exhibition 21. May, 2016, 00:00–00:00
Guided tour (in Hungarian) with Tibor Legát, singer, author in the temporary exhibitions titled Passion. Fan Behaviour and Art and Rock/Space/Time.
Admission with a valid exhibition ticket. No extra charge applies.
Late Night Passion 17. May, 2016, 00:00–00:00
6 - 10 p.m.: Art&Wine Lover’s Club – BORIGO Party
Exclusive guided tour with Zoltán Beck, in the temporary exhibitions, and wine sampling (Balaton region) with BORIGO
Integrated Family Matinée - Music box 14. May, 2016, 00:00–00:00
Museum education programme (in Hungarian) on Saturdays, for the whole family.
Family Matinée in May 2016 is related to the temporary exhibition titled Passion. Fan Behaviour and Art.
Impassable borders? - 'Gegenkultur' in GDR in the 1980s 13. May, 2016, 00:00–00:00
Unumgängliche Grenzen? – Die ostdeutsche Gegenkultur der 1980er Jahre
Datum: 13. Mai 2016 16.00
PROGRAMM:
Family Matinée - Music box 7. May, 2016, 00:00–00:00
Museum education programme (in Hungarian) on Saturdays, for the whole family.
Family Matinée in May 2016 is related to the temporary exhibition titled Passion. Fan Behaviour and Art.
Cult movies - featuring pop stars 6. May, 2016, 00:00–00:00
Filmclub related to the exhibition Passion. Fan Behaviour and Art.
Today's screening:
Bad Timing
(in English, with English subtitles, 122 min, 1980, directed by Nicolas Roeg)
This is a programme primarily intended for adults.
Integrated Family Matinée - Music box 30. April, 2016, 00:00–00:00
Museum education programme (in Hungarian) on Saturdays, for the whole family.
Family Matinée in May 2016 is related to the temporary exhibition titled Passion. Fan Behaviour and Art.
Cult movies featuring pop stars 29. April, 2016, 00:00–00:00
Filmclub related to the exhibition Passion. Fan Behaviour and Art.
Today's screening:
The Man Who Fell to Earth
(in English, with English subtitles, 139 min, 1976, directed by Nicolas Roeg)
This programme is primarily intended for adults.
Special guided tour with Péter Müller Sziámi in the exhibition Passion. Fan Behaviour and Art 24. April, 2016, 00:00–00:00
Guided tour (in Hungarian) with Péter Müller Sziámi in the temporary exhibition titled Passion. Fan Behaviour and Art
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Noise Flowers feat. Presser Gábor 23. April, 2016, 00:00–00:00
Noise Flowers feat. Gábor Presser
Cult movies - featuring pop stars 22. April, 2016, 00:00–00:00
Filmclub related to the exhibition Passion. Fan Behaviour and Art.
Today's screening:
Performance
(in English, with Hungarian subtitles, 105 min, [1968] 1970, directed by Donald Cammell – Nicolas Roeg)
BudapestArtWeek: Passion. Fan Behaviour. Love. - A fashion performance 21. April, 2016, 00:00–00:00
Passion. Fan Behaviour. Love.
Fashion performance with more than a hundred pieces of clothes, costumes, and accessories
An experience based, interdisciplinary performance about passion, fan behaviour and unrequieted platonic love.
Special guided tour with Balázs Lévai in the exhibition Passion. Fan Behaviour and Art 16. April, 2016, 00:00–00:00
Guided tour (in Hungarian) with Balázs Lévai in the temporary exhibition titled Passion. Fan Behaviour and Art
Admission with a valid exhibition ticket. No extra charge applies.
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Exhibition opening: Passion. Fan Behaviour and Art 15. April, 2016, 00:00–00:00
The Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art cordially invites you to the opening of the exhibition
Passion. Fan Behaviour and Art
on Friday 15 April 2016, at 6 p.m.
Opening remarks by: