The Lunch Lecture, moderated by Simon Sheikh (Copenhagen/Berlin) will be devoted to the constructions and delimitation of a specific figure; the speaking subject. How does this figure emerge through discourse, and what are its functions? What can be said and not said in order for a speaking subject to appear as real, as authentic, as authoritative and/or as truthful? Questions which will also serve as reflections on the current exhibition and the editorial work of magazines: How is truth produced, and subsequently, staged? The participating editors are from: Chto Delat (Saint Petersburg/Moscow), Exindex (Budapest), Glänta (Gothenburg) and Vacarme (Paris).

Three films from the archives of the Balázs Béla Studio will be presented in the afternoon by the Hungarian Magazine Exindex. Three positions to deal with the double layered reality of the seventies/eighties’s Hungary (as opposed to the multilayered reality of today). While exploring the different conceptions of the figure of the ‘documentator’ discernible in the films, the screening tries to address the specific cultural-political situation of the so called ‘soft dictatorship’, the remarkable role of the Balázs Béla Studio in organizing and making visible certain underground contural activities as well as the relevance of documentary filmmaking in that period. The afternoon screening and discussion titled “The unbearable lightness of censorship” will be introduced by Miklós Erhardt (Exindex, Budapest).

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