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CREATED DURING THE 10 DAYS OF BUNKER…

SECRETLY I AM …. 
PERFORMANCE BY SANDRA BAYER, @sandra.h.bayer @the_top_ster
2024

ON THE LAST DAY OF THE RESIDENCY, SANDRA BAYER ENDED HER CREATIVE PROCESS WITH A PERFORMANCE THAT CAPTURED THE COLLECTIVE EXPERIENCE. DRESSED IN AN ENSEMBLE OF MATERIALS LEFT BEHIND BY HER FELLOW ARTISTS, SHE WORE THE RELICS OF THE PLACE’S CREATIVE PROCESSES AND STORIES ON HER BODY – AN EMBODIMENT OF THE SHARED CREATION.

SHE MOVED SLOWLY THROUGH THE ROOMS, SENSING THE ENERGY OF THE PLACE AND CONNECTING THE PAST AND THE PRESENT. HER MOVEMENTS CREATED A NEW REALITY THROUGH GESTURES AND PRESENCE. SHE BECAME THE INTERFACE BETWEEN SPACE, MEMORY AND ART.

IT WAS AS IF THE WALLS WERE RETURNING THE RECORDED EXPERIENCES – AN ECHO OF VOICES, COLORS AND SHAPES. THE PLACE, THE THINGS AND THE MEMORIES MERGED WITH HER AS SHE HERSELF BECAME THE EMBODIMENT OF THE SPACE. AT THAT MOMENT, THE BOUNDARY BETWEEN MAN, SPACE AND OBJECT DISAPPEARED.

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ACRYLIC AND MASKING TAPE ON CANVAS

UNTITLED, 2024
SANDRA BAYER
SOFT PASTEL ON PAPER

UNTITLED, 2024
SANDRA BAYER
SOFT PASTEL ON PAPER

SANDRA BAYER (THE TOPSTER) IS A PERFORMANCE ARTIST, DRAG KING, AND PAINTER WHOSE WORK ENGAGES WITH HOW HUMANS ABSORB, EXPEL, AND ARCHIVE THE TURBO-CHARGED INFORMATION AGE’S ONSLAUGHT OF MEDIA. CRAFTING THEIR CREATIVE FORCE INTO A VESSEL FOR UNLEASHING OUR PERCEPTUAL RELATIONSHIP TO THE WORLD’S FUNDAMENTAL INSTABILITY, THEY HAVE DEVELOPED ARTISTIC STRATEGIES FOR CUTTING INTO IMAGES’ FLIMSY MEMBRANES OF FEIGNED FIXITY. WHETHER DISCOVERING THE FEED’S PHYSICAL FORM OR EMBODYING A GLITCH IN THE SYSTEM (ENTER STAGE LEFT THE TOPSTER), THEY RIP APART DIGITAL AND PHYSICAL REALITIES AND SCULPT THEIR GUTS INTO FRESH NARRATIVES/FORMS, UNVEILING AND MANIPULATING THE FORCES WHICH FESTER BEHIND RIGID DEFENSE MECHANISMS, CELLPHONE SCREENS, AND FRAMEWORKS OF IDENTITY.

TEXT BY EVAN KARAS @ekayyy_must_be_the_monay 

Photo Credits: 3,4,6,7,8 by @matyasczegledi taken in Photogether gallery by @commonthreadexperiment
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CREATED DURING THE 10 DAYS OF BUNKER… 

HELL STORE, 2024
YIXUE ZHAO @anlxli @epllis77 
VIDEO AND MONEY PAPER CONSUMER GOODS

YIXUE ZHAO IS A VIDEO/INSTALLATION ARTIST AND FASHION DESIGNER WHOSE WORK EXAMINES THE MATERIALITIES OF SYMBOLOGY, UNRAVELING HOW THE BODY TRANSITIONS BETWEEN EMBODIMENT AND DEPERSONALIZATION. USING METICULOUS RESEARCH TO PROBE INTO HER SUBJECTS’ DIVERSE CONCEPTUAL DIMENSIONS, YIXUE COLLECTS, ARCHIVES, AND STITCHES TOGETHER INFORMATION,  FOOTAGE, AND FORMS INTO PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL GARMENTS, MAGNI FYING THE FILMS (PUN INTENDED) THROUGH WHICH THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE IS FILTERED AND DEMARCATED. THE FABRIC OF HER WORK WEAVES TOGETHER THE MODES WITH WHICH GHOST MEMORIES, MYTHOLOGY, NOSTALGIA, AND RITUAL ENHANCE AND OBSTRUCT RAW PHYSICALITY, A MATERIAL INVESTIGATION OF HOW THE BODY AND BEING ENCASES ITSELF TO MITIGATE ITS RELATIONSHIP TO THE EXTERIOR CONDITION.

TEXT BY EVAN KARAS @ekayyy_must_be_the_monay 

PHOTOS BY @heliivo taken in Photogether gallery by @commonthreadexperiment
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CREATED DURING THE 10 DAYS OF BUNKER...

A TOWER, 2024
MARCO MILLER @marco.v.miller 
CONCRETE AND OIL PASTELS

MARCO MILLER IS A MULTIMEDIA ARTIST WHOSE WORK MAPS THE DYNAMIC TOPOGRAPHY OF HUMAN EXISTENCE, UNMASKING THAT WHICH LIES BARELY BEYOND REACH. THOUGH HE OFTEN DEPICTS THE CHAOTIC CURRENTS OF LIFE, MARCO SEARCHES FOR A HARMONIOUS BALANCE THAT BINDS ALL TOGETHER, MOBILIZING SYMBOLS TO UNDERSTAND HOW TITANS AND FLOWERS, SNAKES AND SPARROWS, ESCALATORS AND COWS CAN COEXIST IN AN EVER-SHIFTING SOCIO-CULTURAL, ECOLOGICAL, AND SPIRITUAL LANDSCAPE. WORKING PRIMARILY ON PAPER AND CANVAS WITH A BLEND OF MEDIUMS, MARCO DIVES INTO THE HIDDEN SCAFFOLDINGS OF REALITY, WHERE EVERYTHING IS SIMULTANEOUSLY BUILT AND UNDONE, LEAVING ITS MARK ON THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS.

TEXT BY EVAN KARAS @ekayyy_must_be_the_monay taken in Photogether gallery by @commonthreadexperiment
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CREATED DURING THE 10 DAYS OF BUNKER...

MULTIPLIED BY, 2024
HANNA SZABÓ-SÁFRÁNY @szabosafrany 
WAX, CHARCOAL, FOUND OBJECTS, VIDEO INSTALLATION, MIRROR, AND PAPER

UNTITLED, 2024
HANNA SZABÓ-SÁFRÁNY @szabosafrany 
ACRYLIC AND OIL ON CANVAS

HANNA SZABÓ-SÁFRÁNY IS A MULTIDISCIPLINARY ARTIST WHOSE WORK TEARS OPEN WORMHOLES INTO THE IMAGINATIVE UNCANNY. VIEWING THE BODY AS A MASS OF KNEADABLE DOUGH, HANNA SCULPTS FLESHY FORMS OF ANATOMICAL AMBIGUITIES WHICH CONGEAL AROUND IMAGES OF ARTIFICIALITY, REGENERATION, AND CYBORGIAN TECHNOLOGICAL INTERVENTION, AMPUTATED BEINGS WHICH OPERATE UNDER UNIVERSAL CONDITIONS EXTENDING BEYOND THE RECOGNIZABLE. WITH HER PAINTINGS AS A SPACE TO INTUITIVELY MAP OUT THE FUNDAMENTAL LAWS OF THE IMAGINATION, HANNA BUILDS OUT WORLDS WHOSE OFFERINGS OF HYPOTHESIZED NARRATIVE PLUNGE THE VIEWER INTO THEIR CORPOREALITY, TURNING FLESH SACKS INSIDE OUT TO WRESTLE WITH THE MORTAL BODY’S INHERENT INADEQUACY IN THE FACE OF RAMPANT TECHNOLOGICAL INTERVENTIONS.

TEXT BY EVAN KARAS @ekayyy_must_be_the_monay 

Photo Credits:
2,3 @matyasczegledi taken in Photogether gallery by @commonthreadexperiment
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2 years ago
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CREATED DURING THE 10 DAYS OF BUNKER...

LANDSCAPE GARDENER, 2024
LARA-JO RIVA @larajoriva 
MIXED MEDIA ON WOOD

LARA-JO RIVA IS A MULTIMEDIA ARTIST WHOSE FOUND OBJECTS, CLAY FORMS, AND RHYTHMIC, GRIDDED PAINTINGS MOBILIZE A VISUAL LEXICON OF THE UNCONSCIOUS, STAGING AN INTUITIVE DANCE BETWEEN ORDER AND CHAOS. SEMIOTICS AND SYNTAX COLLAPSE INTO ONE AS A HAPHAZARD, GLORIOUSLY TRASHY INTERPLAY BETWEEN COLORS, MEANINGS, AND MATERIALS MAGNIFY LANGUAGE’S TEXTURAL FACTORS, WITH DENOTATION, CONNOTATION, AND INTONATION MELTED, FIRED, AND FUCKED INTO AN ILLEGIBLE FORCE THAT SPEAKS ITS TRUTH IN INDECIPHERABLE RIDDLES. WHAT UNFOLDS IS A DISTINCT LINGUISTIC STRUCTURE DESIGNED TO NEVER BE READ, SPOKEN, OR UNDERSTOOD, A SERIES OF RELATIONSHIPS THAT GATEKEEP INFORMATION IN SILOS OF SYMBOLOGY WHOSE INTERIORS WITHHOLD THE ANSWERS TO A EVERYTHING AND NOTHING AT ALL.

TEXT BY EVAN KARAS @ekayyy_must_be_the_monay taken in Photogether gallery by @commonthreadexperiment
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Some impressions from the film screenings in BUNKER…

“Laundry Detergent (Cheers!)” by Jake Brusch @jake__brush 

“Bunker” by Bence Bánhidi-Rózsa @b.r.bence Editor: Szőnyi Máté @mateszonyi 

“Existence” by Gloria Viktoria Regotz @gloriaregotz 

“CADUCEUS” by Adrián Bajusz @staache 

Photos by @atanazbabinchak taken in Photogether gallery by @commonthreadexperiment
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2 years ago
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FRAGMENTS FROM THE ENDGAME

Performed by @julia.gombkoto and @fanni_meszaros_8 at BUNKER

Concept by @domdodomm_ @whatisfreedomm

Video by @matyasczegledi taken in Photogether gallery by @commonthreadexperiment
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Some Impressions from Friday night in BUNKER… 

@ukbac SS24 MUD-FIGHT SHOW
Talents: @bunnylovesfun @julco_oreskova 
Creative direction: @plxeb
Photo/Video: @atanazbabinchak 

NEVERNOTWORKING
Performance by: @bruta_tk and @lauren_slater.agency 
Artwork from the Landscape Gardener Series by  @larajoriva 

Photos by @atanazbabinchak by @commonthreadexperiment
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HELL 

Performance by Dalma Borenich @dalma.borenich and Polányi Petra @p3e7r4 at BUNKER

Photos by @katerina_lebedova 
Video by @atanazbabinchak taken in Photogether gallery by @commonthreadexperiment
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2 years ago
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SHAMAN 

Performance by Elias Franziskus Grüner @elias.franziskus.gruener 

Video and photos by Atanáz Babinchak 
@atanazbabinchak 

Painting by Réka Horváth @reeqcii 

Music: Hermann Nitsch - Orgelkonzert Jesuitenkirche 2013, Satz 1-4 taken in Photogether gallery by @commonthreadexperiment
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CREATED DURING THE 10 DAYS OF BUNKER...

HALF AUTO QUEEN MACHINE, 2024
VITO BAUMÜLLER @vitobaumueller 
STEEL, ROPES, PULLEYS, BIBS, AND BOPS

VITO BAUMÜLLER’S ARTISTIC PRACTICE HANDS HIS INNER CHILD A SWORD, FENDING OFF THE EVER-PRESENT THREAT OF IMMANENT DEATH WITH A HEAVY-HANDED SERVING OF VIOLENT WHIMSY. BAUMÜLLER DREAMS UP AESTHETICALLY IMPOSING YET DINKY DEATH MACHINES/VEHICLES THAT ARE HELD TOGETHER WITH STRING, BROOMSTICKS, AND CAT FOOD TINS, MECHANISMS OPERATING IN A REALM STRADDLING DR. SEUSSIAN THINGAMABOBS AND TINA TURNER’S HOT ROD BIKE FROM MAD MAX: BEYOND THUNDERDOME. PUSHING FUNCTIONALITY INTO A STATE OF HYPER-SPECIFIC ABSURDITY, BAUMÜLLER’S MECHANISMS FIND PARASITIC POWER IN DEMARCATING THEIR WIELDER’S PUR-POSELESSNESS, DISTILLING IDENTITY AND EXISTENCE DOWN TO THE FUNCTION OF THAT WHICH LIES WITHIN THE HAND.

TEXT BY EVAN KARAS @ekayyy_must_be_the_monay 

Photo credits:
1, 6 @atanazbabinchak 
2 @ekayyy_must_be_the_monay 
3, @vitobaumueller 
4, 5 @heliivo 
7 @szabosafrany taken in Photogether gallery by @commonthreadexperiment
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2 years ago
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A PSYCHOLOGICALLY ENTRENCHED BARRIER BETWEEN THE OUTSIDE WORLD AND OUR FRESHLY DELINEATED INTERIOR DREW A LINE IN RED ON OUR DOORSTEP. CROSSING THE THRESHOLD INTO THE EXTERIOR MEANT CRUMBLING RAW EGGS IN OUR HANDS AT STREET CORNERS, HAVING IN-DEPTH CONVERSATIONS WITH STATUES, SCREAMING AT WALLS, AND STANDING COMPLETELY STILL IN CENTRAL LOCATIONS WHILE LISTENING TO STEVE REICH’S PIANO PHASE FROM START TO FINISH. TIME LOOSENED ITS GRIP ON OUR REALITY; DAYS AND NIGHTS EXPANDED AND CONTRACTED INTO AN AMORPHOUS PUTTY INTO WHICH WE COULD SCULPT OUR CAVERNS OF EXISTENCE, WITH THE SUN’S ABSENCE PLUNGING A FLUORESCENT TUBE INTO OUR SKULLS À LA JAMES W. WATTS.

Excerpt from Evan Karas’s exhibition essay

Photos of @b.r.bence by @reeqcii taken in Photogether gallery by @commonthreadexperiment
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