The grand opening of the ms2 will be accompanied by the
inauguration of the international project Art Always has Its
Consequences, which will consist of series of exhibitions,
scientific laboratories and publications. They all will be
co-realized by four partnership institutions: Tranzit_hu (Hungary),
media center kuda.org (Serbia), curator collective WHW (Croatia)
and Muzeum Sztuki in Lodz. The authors tackled with the issues
omitted in the official version of history: the history of
exhibitions, conceptual typography, the history of artistic
writing, and archives practices. As a result, they will retell
and show originality of postwar culture in East-Central Europe.
Builders is one out of three meetings organized within the
frameworks of this year’s edition of the project. It will
present eight films connected with the issues of the physical
construction and the ideological assumptions of the socialist
utopia. The movies, by such artists like: Andreas Fogarasi, Chto
Delat, Deimantas Narkevičius czy and David Maljković, will be
followed by a lecture by a Hungarian historian of art – Edit
Andrăs titled The Future Is Behind Us. Working title: archive #1
is the title of the first free publication on the given topic
that will be promoted during the meeting.