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* [https://www.macba.cat/en/exhibition-museum-of-parallel-narratives Artpool as part of the ''Museum of Parallel Narratives'' exhibition], MACBA, 2011. [http://www.macba.cat/PDFs/aartpool_eng.pdf Wall texts], [http://www.macba.cat/PDFs/artpool.pdf wall texts] (ES). [https://www.artpool.hu/MACBA/english.html]
  
 
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Artpool Art Research Center was founded in 1979 in Budapest by György Galántai and Júlia Klaniczay as an attempt to create an alternative art institute, one that would make room for the new trends in art.

Artpool was established at a time when art forms out of keeping with the official cultural policy were denied access to the public. Artpool's aim was to provide contemporary Hungarian artists with information and potential contacts on the international art scene, as well as to publicize and document the activities of Hungarian artists out of favor with those who dictated the cultural policy of the time. Collecting what documents were extant on the alternative art of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, Artpool set up an archive which, they hoped, would provide future generations with ammunition and inspiration when it came to moral stands and artistic struggles of their own. In the ten years of its "illegal" existence, the archive accumulated several rare collections of international significance. The Artpool Art Research Center has been operating with funding from the Budapest Municipal Council since 1992.

The unique collection of sources available to the public at Artpool Art Research Center covers 300 meters of shelving. The archive and library house primarily documents relating to the Hungarian avant-garde art movements of the 1970s and 1980s, as well as sources on the new international art trends of the past 40 years. Holdings include: correspondence, notes, plans, ideas, interviews, writings, works of art, photo documents, catalogs, invitation cards, bibliographies, chronologies, diagrams, video and sound documents, CD-ROMs, etc.

Artpool covers: Fluxus, performance, sound poetry, visual poetry, artists' bookwork, mail art, artists' stamps, artists' postcards, artists' periodicals, copy art, computer art, video art. The Hungarian "non-authorized" art of the `60s, `70s, and `80s (including alternative art scenes and groups, contemporary music, underground art magazines, the work of Miklós Erdély, etc.). Documentation of life-works related to Artpool's special topics: Miklós Erdély, György Galántai, Ray Johnson, Ben Vautier, G.A. Cavellini, Monty Cantsin, ASA, etc. The archive is augmented by the Library and the Collections which have material related to the special topics.

Publications

Periodicals

  • Poolwindow / Pool-Letter, 30 issues, eds. György Galántai and Júlia Klaniczay, 1980-1982. Design, layout and production: György Galántai. Single-page mail art newsletter. 1980: 1-5, 1981: 6-18, 1982 :19-30. A4, photocopy. (English),(Hungarian)
  • AL (Aktuális / Alternatív / Artpool Levél) [Actual / Alternative / Artpool Letter], 11 issues, 1983-1985. Nos. 1-9, A5, photocopied; Nos. 10, 11, A4, photocopied with offset cover, rubber stamp, with a circulation of 300-500. Bookwork-like samizdat art magazine with several inserts and supplements and with English summaries for each issue. (Hungarian),(English)
    • AL (Artpool Letter) 1-11, 1983-1985, Budapest: Artpool, 2004. Boxed edition, published in 15 copies. Assembled from the leftover original inserts and sheets (some missing pages were reprinted from the original template using the same photocopy technique).
  • Radio Artpool, 8 issues, Budapest: Artpool, 1983-1987. Cassette releases.

Bookworks (1979-1989)

Design and production: György Galántai.

  • The Artpool, 1980, 18 pp. A6, offset, foldout bookwork. Appeared as the first issue of the Poolwindow newsletter.
  • Textile Without Textile, Budapest: Galántai–Artpool, 1980. Original works in an A4 format silk-screened folder, in a variety of techniques by 54 artists from various countries, 300 numbered copies.
  • ART + POST, 1981. A series of four A6 booklets in an envelope, offset, ca. 200 copies. The series contains Hungarian translation of articles and studies about correspondence art. Published on the occasion of the first exhibition of Hungarian mail artists. The fourth booklet served as the catalogue of the exhibition. [1]
  • ART-UMBRELLA, 1981. Bookwork-catalogue, A6, offset, with color foil cover, 97 numbered copies. 104 works by 33 Hungarian artists.
  • Artpool’s Ray Johnson Space (I-III.), Budapest: Artpool, 1983. Bookwork, 4-4 copies.
  • Artpool’s Ray Johnson Book / Four Letters, 1985. A4, 120 pages, photocopy, 10 numbered copies.
  • To live in a negative utopia, 1982-1987, 34 pp. A5 booklet, photocopy, 100 numbered copies. An edition of selected “answers” by 32 artists to Ray Johnson’s second “add to” letter.
  • Everybody with Anybody, Budapest: Artpool, 1982. A5, offset, rubber stamp, in a plastic bag, 300 numbered copies. Bookwork-catalogue with photos, original rubber stamps and articles by György Galántai, Miklós Erdély, Albert Kováts and György Szemadám in Hungarian and in English. Catalogue of a rubber stamp event, 1982 (supplement to the catalogue: call, invitation and poster).
  • Stamp + Rubber Stamp, Budapest: Artpool, 1982. 17x15 cm, silk-screened, offset, collage, rubber stamp, cardboard cover, folder-like, 125 numbered copies. A publication compiled and conceived by György Galántai to honour 22 Hungarian artists who participated both in Artpool’s artistamp and rubber stamp project.
  • World Art Post, eds. György Galántai and Júlia Klaniczay, Budapest: Artpool, 1982. A4 landscape format, offset, silk-screened plastic foil cover, ca. 900 copies. An album of 27 sheets (28 stamps each) of stamps designed by 550 artists from 35 countries - with essays and studies on artistamps in English by Peter Frank, E. F. Higgins, László Beke, etc., along with a comprehensive bibliography. Published on the occasion of the World Art Post exhibition, 1982.
  • Commonpress 51, “Hungary”, Budapest: Artpool, 1984. 15 copies (cover: silk-screened plastic foil and a color offset tourist prospectus, inside: photocopy). Catalogue of the exhibition Hungary Can Be Yours! / International Hungary.
  • Commonpress 51, “Hungary”, Budapest: Artpool, 1984-1989. 300 copies, offset. Printed version of the original catalogue.
  • The Artpool - Documentation 1979-1984, ed. György Galántai, Budapest: Artpool, 1984-1988. A4, ca. 70-80 pages, photocopy with collaged photos, artistamps, rubber stamp prints. 1984: series I-IV (5 copies each), 1985: V (10 copies), VI (6 copies), 1986: VII (6 copies), 1987-88: VIII (22 copies).
  • Intermámor'88 / musaillance transactiviste, 1988, 28 pp. Catalogue of the sound poetry festival at Club MM, Almássy tér, Budapest. (English)
  • Galántai, 1988, 25 pp. Catalogue for György Galántai's exhibition at the Görög templom (Greek temple) in Vác, 2 October-10 November 1988.
  • Galántai, 1989, 30 pp. Catalogue for György Galántai's exhibition at the daaadgalerie, Berlin, 2 September-8 October 1989.

Yearbooks

  • Artpool 1992, 1992. A4 spiral bound, with original documents, photocopy.
  • Artpool 1993, 1993. A4 spiral bound, with original documents, photocopy.
  • Artpool 1994, 1994. A4 spiral bound, with original documents, photocopy.

Booklets

A5 booklets with Hungarian translation of source texts.

  • Ken Friedman, Fluxus 1992, Budapest: Artpool, 1992, 20 pp.
  • Network utópiák. A mindenüttlevés művészete. Részletek az 1993-as On Line szimpózium anyagából [Network Utopias. The Art of Being Everywhere. Excerpts from the On Line Symposium, 1993], ed. Robert Adrian X, Budapest: Artpool, 1993, 16 pp.
  • Válogatás Ben Vautier írásaiból [Texts by Ben Vautier, a selection], Budapest: Artpool, 1993, 36 pp.
  • George Maciunas, Írások, diagramok [Writings, Diagrams], ed. Annamária Szőke, Budapest: Artpool, 1993, 24 pp.
  • Hangköltészet [Sound Poetry], ed. & intro. Endre Szkárosi, Budapest: Artpool, 1994, 42 pp.
  • Allan Kaprow, Assemblage, environmentek & happeningek [Assemblage, Environments & Happenings], ed. & afterw. Annamária Szőke, Budapest: Artpool, 1996, 42 pp.
  • Hyper text + Multimédia, ed. & afterw. János Sugár, Budapest: Artpool, 1996, 64 pp; 2nd ed., corr., 1998.

Catalogues and project documentations

  • Artpool's Faxzine, ed. György Galántai, Budapest: Artpool, 1992, 24 pp. A5, photocopy. Booklet documenting the Networker Congress Budapest event. Designed and produced by György Galántai. (English)
  • Flux Flag / Fluxus Zászló, ed. György Galántai, Budapest: Artpool, 1992, 94 pp. A4, monochrome and color photocopy, printed in 100 numbered copies. Publication designed and produced by György Galántai with the use of the artists’ documents and photographs of the exhibited fluxus flags,
  • Networker Post, Budapest: Artistamp Museum of Artpool, 1992-1993, 100 pp. A4, photocopy, folder, 150 copies. Stamp sheets, with 5x4 artistamps each, by 100 artists.
  • Fluxmost, 1993, 4 pp. A4, offset. Test issue of a planned review.
  • Polyphonix 26 - Budapest, Budapest: Artpool, 1994, 16 pp. A4, offset. Catalogue of the Sound Poetry Festival organized by Artpool and Polyphonix Association (Paris) in Budapest, 1994, with biographies and photos of the participating artists. (English)/(Hungarian)
  • Networker Bridge, Budapest: Artpool, 1994. A5 booklet assembled from 8+1 A4 sheets folded in two, b&w and color photocopy. 64 tarot-card images, a bookwork by György Galántai in homage to the networker friends of Artpool.
  • Sajnos István szövegei [István Sajnos texts], Budapest: Artpool, 1995, 44 pp. A5, photocopy. Booklet documenting the sajnos [alas] project. (Hungarian)
  • Video-Expedition in the Performance-World, ed. Júlia Klaniczay, Budapest: Artpool, 1995, 32 pp. A4, offset. Catalogue of the performance-video festivals organized by Artpool and summary of the Year of Performance including description of, and information on, the videos, photographs, brief introductory notes by some experts of the topic, with index. Designed by György Galántai. (English)/(Hungarian)
  • Monument Square Postcards, Budapest: Artpool, 1997. An edition of 56 cards selected from the 134 works received for the project to transform a postcard showing Budapest’s Heroes square.
  • The Year of Installation at Artpool: Installation Project 1998, Budapest: Artpool, 1999, 32 pp. A4, offset. Catalogue of the project and the events held during “The Year of Installation”. (English)/(Hungarian)
  • Marcel Duchamp Szimpozion 1987 [Marcel Duchamp Symposium 1987], Budapest: Artpool, 2007, 62 pp. A4, digital print. Publication with the “Five minute lectures” held at the symposium in 1987 by 21 leading Hungarian artists and art critics. (Hungarian)
  • Hommage à Marcel Duchamp, Budapest: Artpool, 2007, 143 pp. A4, color digital print, 100 copies. With an insert of English summary of the “Five minute lectures”. A bookwork-catalogue, an imprint of the website documenting the event (symposium, concerts and exhibition) “In the Spirit of Marcel Duchamp” organized by György Galántai (Artpool) and Péter György (Department of Aesthetics at the Eötvös Loránd Univ.) in 1987.
  • Robert Watts: Flux Med, Budapest: Artpool, 2008, 48 pp. Exhibition catalogue with essays by Francesco Conz, Larry Miller and Geoffrey Hendricks. (English)/(Hungarian)

Books

  • György Galántai, Júlia Klaniczay (eds.), Galántai, Életmunkák / Lifeworks 1968-1993, Budapest: Artpool, and Budapest: Enciklopédia, 1996, 318 pp. (English)/(Hungarian)
  • Allan Kaprow, Assemblage, environmentek & happeningek [Assemblage, Environments & Happenings], ed. & afterw. Annamária Szőke, Budapest: Artpool, Balassi, and BAE Tartóshullám, 1998, 75 pp. (Hungarian)
  • Márton Koppány (ed.), Idegen az ajtóban [Stranger at the door], Budapest: Artpool, and Budapest: Balassi, 1999, 124 pp. [2] (Hungarian)
  • Annamária Szőke (ed.), A performance-művészet [Performance Art], Budapest: Artpool, Budapest: Balassi, and Budapest: Tartóshullám, 2000, 346 pp. (Hungarian)
  • László Beke, Anna Bálint (eds.), Poipoi, Budapest: Artpool, and Budapest: Műcsarnok, 1998, 40 pp. (Hungarian)
  • Annamária Szőke (ed.), Diagramok: Gondolat-térképek [Diagrams: Mind Maps], Budapest: Artpool, and Budapest: Műcsarnok, 1998, 51 pp. [3] (Hungarian)
  • József Havasréti, Zsolt K. Horváth (eds.), Avantgárd: underground: alternatív. Popzene, művészet és szubkulturális nyilvánosság Magyarországon [Avant-garde: Underground: Alternative: Pop Music, Art and Subculture in Hungary], Budapest: Kijárat, Budapest: Artpool, and Pécs: Művészetkutató Központ - PTE Kommunikációs Tanszék, 2003, 239 pp. [4] (Hungarian)
  • Júlia Klaniczay, Edit Sasvári (eds.), Törvénytelen avantgárd. Galántai György balatonboglári kápolnaműterme 1970-1973 [Illegal Avant-garde: The Chapel Studio of György Galántai in Balatonboglár 1970-1973], Budapest: Artpool, and Budapest: Balassi, 2003, 460 pp. (Hungarian)
  • Parastamp: Four Decades of Artistamps, from Fluxus to the Internet, intro. Peter Frank, Budapest: Szépművészeti Múzeum, 2007, 108 pp. Catalogue of the exhibition from the artistamp collection of Artpool Art Research Center, with an essay by art historian Kata Bodor and an interview with György Galántai, organiser of the exhibition. (English)/(Hungarian)
  • Júlia Klaniczay, Annamária Szőke (eds.), Fluxus. Interjúk, szövegek, események-esetek [FLUXUS. Interviews, Texts, Events], Budapest: Artpool, and Budapest: Ludwig Múzeum, 2008, 350 pp. (Hungarian)
  • József Havasréti, Széteső dichotómiák. Színterek és diskurzusok a magyar neoavantgárdban [Dichotomies Falling Apart. Scenes and Discourses in the Hungarian Neo-avantgarde], Budapest: Gondolat Kiadó, Budapest: Artpool, and Pécs: PTE Kommunikációs Médiatudományi Tanszék, 2009, 256 pp. (Hungarian)
  • Károly Tamkó Sirató, A Dimenzionista Manifesztum története. A Dimenzionizmus (nemeuklidészi művészetek) I. Albuma. Az avantgárd művészetek rendszerbe foglalása [The History of the Dimensionist Manifesto. Album I of Dimensionism (non-Euclidean arts). The Systematization of Avant-Garde Arts], ed. & notes Júlia Klaniczay, postf. László L. Simon, Budapest: Artpool, and Budapest: Magyar Műhely, 2010, 198 pp. Book supplement: Manifeste Dimensioniste, 1936, 2 pp (reprint of the French original). (Hungarian)
  • Artpool 30 kronológia 1979-2009 [Artpool 30 Chronology 1979-2009], ed. Júlia Klaniczay, Budapest: Artpool, 2010, 100 pp. (Hungarian)
  • Péter Abajkovics, Ákos Székely (eds.), Leopold Bloom Planetoida, Budapest: Artpool, and Budapest: Magyar Műhely, 2012, 240 pp. Publication documenting the Bloomsday festivals (1995-2009) and the 23 issues of the international bookwork magazine Leopold Bloom. (English)/(Hungarian)
  • György Galántai, Julia Klaniczay (eds.), Artpool: The Experimental Art Archive of East-Central Europe, forew. Kristine Stiles, Budapest: Artpool, 2013, 535 pp. 21 x 29.7 cm, with approx 1500 b&w and color illustratons, index of names, softcover, published in 500 numbered copies. [5] (English)
  • The Mukhina Project: Interpretations of Being in György Galántai's Oeuvre / A Muhina projekt. Létértelmezések Galántai György életművében, ed. Júlia Klaniczay, Budapest: Vintage Galéria, 2018, 144 pp. Text: conversations about the Mukhina Project with György Galántai. 180 illustrations, 20x26 cm, published in 600 copies. (English)/(Hungarian)

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