Peter Forgacs
Bourgeois Dictionaries (Private Hungary 7)
1992;
49 minutes, color
Video Screening
Thursday, October 4
10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m., continuously
Handwerker Gallery
This event is free
and open to all.
 Peter
Forgacs was born in Hungary in 1950. He studied at the Academy of Fine
Arts in Budapest and was a researcher at the Hungarian Sociological Institute
of the Academy of Sciences. Forgacs has long been engaged in investigating
alternative historical and cultural narratives through the private documentation
of everyday lives. His works merge drama and anthropology, documentary
and diary. Forgacs's reclamation of amateur home movies and personal film
journals from the 1920s to the 1960s results in subjective histories,
outside of "official" histories, of wartime Hungary and communism.
His works have been
shown internationally at exhibitions including the São Paulo Biennial
in Brazil, the Flaherty Film Seminar; and the Centre d'Art Contemporain
in Geneva, Switzerland. His video works are in the collections of the
Museum of Modern Art, Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Pacific Film Archives
in Berkeley, California, and the Hungarian National Gallery in Budapest,
among others.
Forgacs lives in Budapest.
As part of the Handwerker's
ongoing commitment to contemporary art, we believe it is our
duty to introduce the public to what is arguably the most interesting
and innovative artistic medium today —
video art productions. More than ever before, art is conceived
as a global and heterogeneous enterprise, one that speaks across
the boundaries of a single and specialized medium as well as
across national and racial boundaries. Our Global Video series
welcomes difference and the endeavor to go beyond the very idea
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