160515 Human is a Revolution

A Budapest performance / performative environment in which Samotryas instruments assembled from a branch, part of a wooden chair and a decomposed electric guitar were activated in the exhibition space; the assembled objects become instruments inside the situation of listening, distributing musical agency across instrument, environment and listener rather than concentrating it in a performer.

15.05.16
performance / performative environment
First Samotryas instrument appearance

Authorial Comment

Marika and Anton left the office they lived and worked in Budapest for two months as a performative environment open for friends and whip away hoping to reach Vienna via hitchhiking. However, in Hungary it doesn't go easy; having driven 120 kilometers, they got stuck in Győr for infinity. Forced to come back to Budapest Aliens spent within own installation one more month.
Art can be created anywhere, from whatever, and anytime: only an artist is required. By creating the Ready Made, Marcel Duchamp pointed out the essence of an artistic act as a mechanism endowing any object with a special ontological status. By this act, an artist constitutes a general blank space (place for being) that can be occupied by any object.
Using the big branch, part of a wooden chair, decomposed electric guitar artists built two electronic monochords which they named the Samotryas, which proved to be perfect for performative sound investigations.
Marika and Anton reduced the technology of musical performance to the extreme to remove a musician from music, thus establishing a meeting point of environmental, performative, and objective art. What remains is active musical experience non-existent without one who listens.

— Apple Notes — Revolution; the artistic-act passage is attributed there to Anton Kryvula.

Detail

Marika and Anton left the office they lived and worked in Budapest for two months as a performative environment open for friends and whip away hoping to reach Vienna via hitchhiking. However, in Hungary it doesn't go easy; having driven 120 kilometers, they got stuck in Győr for infinity. Forced to come back to Budapest Aliens spent within own installation one more month.

Human is a Revolution. After the end of the office working term, the space became an exhibition, and then it was restored at the Art Budapest 2017 fair. Some of the exhibition items were stolen by unknowns.

Samotryas

Related Works

160320 Budapest RoomA room in Budapest in which Marika Krasina and Anton Kryvulia lived and worked during the 2016 Budapest period, turning the living and working space into a performative installation open to friends. The room was the environment in which Human is a Revolution and the early Samotryas work were made. After the initial residency period, the artists returned to the room and continued living inside the installation for another month.