doomsday (b)rain checkradical crisis management

Opening speech by Márió Z. Nemes, poet, aesthete

The climate crisis, the energy crisis, the raw materials crisis, the water crisis, the viruses are all seemingly insurmountable problems of our time. Since the 2000s scientists have been warning more and more loudly about the problems we face. Today some problems are beyond reversal and pessimistic scientists believe that our modern technological civilisation in its present form will collapse within a few decades. Even more moderate techno-optimists believe that if humanity does not change some of its habits and take action to stop waste and environmental degradation, the consequences could be truly catastrophic in the near future...

Of course, we didn't want to narrow our thinking so much to these global problems of our planet that we have highlighted, our focus is mainly on radical crisis management.

During the duration of the exhibition on 2 designated days the artists of the exhibition and the MAGMA Contemporary Art Exhibition Space will present a mini-festival. They will give lectures on the current situation of Hungarian and Romanian contemporary art in Transylvania, present their renowned education programme and give art education lectures for young people and adults. The evenings will close with noise music concerts.

The exhibition is open: 9 April 2023.

Curators: Gábor Áfrány, Ágnes-Evelin Kispál, Attila Kispál

partners:
The Municipality of the City of Veszprém 

The Municipality of the City of Sfântu Gheorghe

The exhibition is supported by the National Cultural Fund and VEB2023 Veszprém-Balaton European Capital of Culture.