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Riánsares Gómez Olmedilla: Deconstructing “Non-Spaces” [master thesis]

“..the actions developed highlight how the public space is constructed from the private and domestic domain each of us has. As a result, the intervention embraces relatedness as the suitable strategy to subvert fixed boundaries. The project works as a meeting point where differences and personal stories are included. At the same time, through the connection among different artistic disciplines, they create an environment that disrupts fixed definitions of subject/object (ie. statue of Mokus Maxi); or temporal frameworks (connecting past and present through the stories and lyrics written). Moreover, they emphasize another sort of communication that involves body, music and arts. In doing so, the participants not only transgress the binary mind/body, but they also highlight how the process is the solution itself rather than final illuminated endings.”

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Street Channel

// Live TV shows on public squares in Józsefváros, Budapest on the topic of housing

// April-May 2016

// Józsefváros, Budapest

Social Housing is a burning issue in Hungary and especially in Budapest where homelessness, evictions and renting prices explode. Through playful art mixed up with deep discussions a dialog was created to reach out for a broader public for this topic. The performances that combined TV, street and performance were live events where people gathered to learn new points about it. An exchange platform was brought to life: actors and artists helped to make the show entertaining and played with the topics while they learnt from the content and ideas about housing from the activists they encountered and worked together.
The shows were recorded and are and will be screened in very diverse locations from schools over community houses to private film clubs. We hope to generate attention and an inspiration for people to gather, support existing initiatives who come up with new solutions and develop new inputs to solve the situation.

Supported by Norway Grants & EEA Grants
PARTNERS: The School of Public Life, The City is for All, Habitat for Humanity Hungary

STREET CHANNEL – live TV shows in public spaces on housing

April 2016 | Józsefváros, Budapest

Social Housing is a burning issue in Hungary and especially in Budapest where homelessness, evictions and renting prices explode. Through playful art mixed up with deep discussions a dialog was created to reach out for a broader public for this topic. The performances that combined TV, street and performance were live events where people gathered to learn new points about it.
The recorded shows will be screened in pubic spaces of Józsefváros.
>> live TV shows << 
#1 – 4 April, 5-7pm – Teleki tér
#2 – 11 April,  5-7pm- Teleki tér
#3 – 17 April, 3-5pm, 14-17 – Rákóczi tér
#4 – 24 April, 3-5pm – Keleti pályaudvar

>> screenings <<
#1 – 8 April, 7-9pm
#2 – 15 April, 7-9pm
#3 – 22 April, 7-9pm
#4 – 29 April, 7-9pm

Facebook-esemény: https://www.facebook.com/events/249625462037849/

PAPLAMENT in Bremen

2 and 6 Feb, 2016 | Schwankhalle, BREMEN (DE)

Mobile Albania, some members of Pneuma Szöv. and the rolling donkey travel for a week to and through Bremen; searching for hospitality.
They take a break in Kukoon to screen Mókus Riviera and talk about it. At Feb 6th, people are invited to the night of the travel story telling, with Sauna, Pap-Yurte and other brought and found hospitality rituals.

EXIT POLLoska // vol. 3. // Auróra birthday edition

14 Nov 2015, (Sat), 7 pm | Auróra
Live radio&theatre performance in Auróra & on radio Tilos

Not so very long ago there lived 6 million poloska (bedbugs) in the 8th district, not only in the Vajdahunyad homeless shelter, but at least 60 in Zsuzsi’s flat, and as they spread they turned the hotels of New York into their main baracks.
A shadow government reigns supreme. Thanks to the blanket CCTV control of public space the bedbugs are now bathed in sunlight. But the listeners are not aware that they too are being listened to.
The final solution of the bedbug problem has begun. HoCsi has cleansed the Vajdahunyad Castle shelter using Chlorine gas, and www.poloskaterkep.hu has publisized their whereabouts. >>Out of the dark – into the light >>

https://www.facebook.com/events/1035790166452635/

The Pap Family Besets Leipzig – PAPLAMENT III.

// A series of changing performances between theater, radio and interactive celebration space
// Aug – Sept , 2015, LOFFT Theater, Leipzig & Jan, 2016, Schwankhalle Bremen & Feb – Mar, 2016, KRASSFESTIVAL, Kampnagel Hamburg, in the frame of Szenenwechsel

The Pap family is a nomadic tribe; its most famous member is Rika Pap who can magically transmute herself into money. No one knows the exact origin of these Redskins who shine like stardust from the Puszta.

On their raids, these new Huns occupy gray city squares, dark stages, empty backyards and convert them into switching points of movement. They ride on wild radio waves through border fences, construct their yurts from old election boards on the squares, and cultivate ritual meetings with the residents there. In their theater shows, they grind the ideas and people they’ve encountered into radio waves and paprika.
Now at last, the Pap-penheimers come to the LOFFT. What awaits us is written in glowing red pepper fairy tales. There are rumors that their weapons are getting sharper and their attacks are recently not just of theatrical kind. We are excited and fear for our reputable skin. They are numerous. They are everywhere.
Maybe also in your apparatus. Je suis Radio.

SUPPORTED by LOFFT, Stadt Leipzig, Kulturamt, Fonds Darstellende Künste and Robert Bosch Stiftung – International Theater Institut in the frame of the program „Szenenwechsel“

https://www.facebook.com/events/1468031386844555/

Vorzimmer // Widerstandgeister

// turning a public square into an artistic playground for reflection about resistance now and in the (local) past
// Wiener Festwochen, Morzinplatz, Vienna (A), May 2015 //

In the frame of Into the City / Wiener Festwochen, Pneuma Szöv. and Mobile Albania (DE) opened an action room in Morzinplatz Wien. A vestibule of history, a vestibule of stories, a vestibule of possibilities and impossibilities. Past, present and future forms of resistance are explored, playacted, linked, reflected upon. In the course of the action, the inventory of the vestibule emerges from the inspirations of the past brought into the present: a story by Margarethe Schütte-Lihotzky about toilet bowl singers in prison; a speech about the state by Ilse Aichinger; handbills denouncing the Second Wold War; hiding as a method of practical resistance; the creation of camouflaged writings; telling stories in a Mobile Albanian tee room; chalk TV…
Vorzimmer functioned as an art mediation station in between the inside-exhibition about the former Gestapo headquarter and its past to passers-by and local inhabitants and open a dialogue with them about the topic. The focus of the project was moments of resistance connected to the local Gestapo-history that can be inspiring and connected to today’s resistant movements.
Formats: big interactive, informative wall collage, a presence over two weeks, public rehearsals and a performative closing “ghost hour”, where the results of the research were shown.
PARTNERS: Wiener Festwochen – Into the City

More info: https://rotor.mur.at/con_into-the-city_ger.html

EXIT POLLoska – reloaded at Off-Biennale

// Live Radio Theater Experiment about the global movement of bedbugs, their shadow government and parasitism
// 2015, April, Budapest, Auróra, OFF-Biennale, Tilos Radio (/span>

from and with: Pap Berecz Zsuzsa, Pap Bredán Máté, Pap Esze Dorka, Pap Sarah Günther, Pap Horváth Csilla (aka Pap HoCsi), Pap Kallós Viola, Pap Makra Viktória, Pap Markos Viktor, Pap Orbán Anna, Pap Rejtő Gábor (fly expert), Pap Rika, Pap Szabados Luca, Pap Székely Rozi and other Pap members