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TWO ARTISTS – TWO CURATORS - Attention Recycling - In mid-2001 some of us had the impression that concerning contemporary art something was missing in our place of residence, in Budapest. For a long time, the lack of an infrastructure supporting contemporary culture and encouraging its reception seemed natural, and it also seemed acceptable that the art scene could only be developed from underneath, through the organic categories of kitsch, commerce, saleable – in other words, one would just have to wait until the market players would be able to finance the unconventional, not easily digestible, not light and easy type of culture. However, this recognition had not yet dawned, and the art scene fragmented according to irrelevant categories. Moreover, today’s condition is long not that naïve and optimistic consumption-centred, upon which an earlier contemporary art/culture, characteristic of Cold (aka propaganda) War alignment, could be built in the West. The situation changed, and in this new situation the value system of the popular and the elite have been overturned; the popular, become dismal terrain of the the political and commercial marketing manipulations; and the previously rightfully scorned elitism is rendered progressive, locally capable of resisting the manipulations, of a positive value. From the popular will be manipulative demagogue and commerce; while from the elite there is direct, i.e., non-mediated (sensory, real- time), experience that can only be directly lived through. If practically everything has become effectively transmissible, then everything that is not – that is beyond this – is rendered of serious value. Art, for instance. In such a situation we would like to manipulate the local art scene – moreover, with one single effective tool. For a predetermined period of time we would like to establish spaces in which we introduce artworks and artistic strategies on the basis of simply motivated, individual decisions. Our initiative is realised via the inmediate, informal contacts it is built upon, and the collaboration evolving in transit situations, and it is precisely for this reason that it is not success, but the process that is the principal aim, so that the participants may be accomplices in the process that reacts critically to the manipulations. In form, then, we consciously reach back to the strategies of the previous decades, when the artistic movements that were subsequently judged to be important appeared on the periphery of general attention, on the blind spots of the era, and only later became perceptible to the majority.

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TWO ARTISTS – TWO CURATORS

- Attention Recycling -

In mid-2001 some of us had the impression that concerning contemporary art something was missing in our place of residence, in Budapest. For a long time, the lack of an infrastructure supporting

contemporary culture and encouraging its reception seemed natural, and it also seemed acceptable that the art scene could only be developed from underneath, through the organic categories of kitsch, commerce, saleable – in other words, one would just have to wait until the market players would be

able to finance the unconventional, not easily digestible, not light and easy type of culture. However, this recognition had not yet dawned, and the art scene fragmented according to irrelevant categories. Moreover, today’s condition is long not that naïve and optimistic consumption-centred, upon which an earlier contemporary art/culture, characteristic of Cold (aka propaganda) War alignment, could be built

in the West.

The situation changed, and in this new situation the value system of the popular and the elite have been overturned; the popular, become dismal terrain of the the political and commercial marketing

manipulations; and the previously rightfully scorned elitism is rendered progressive, locally capable of resisting the manipulations, of a positive value. From the popular will be manipulative demagogue and commerce; while from the elite there is direct, i.e., non-mediated (sensory, real-time), experience that can only be directly lived through. If practically everything has become effectively transmissible, then

everything that is not – that is beyond this – is rendered of serious value. Art, for instance.

In such a situation we would like to manipulate the local art scene – moreover, with one single effective tool. For a predetermined period of time we would like to establish spaces in which we

introduce artworks and artistic strategies on the basis of simply motivated, individual decisions. Our initiative is realised via the inmediate, informal contacts it is built upon, and the collaboration evolving in transit situations, and it is precisely for this reason that it is not success, but the process that is the principal aim, so that the participants may be accomplices in the process that reacts critically to the manipulations. In form, then, we consciously reach back to the strategies of the previous decades,

when the artistic movements that were subsequently judged to be important appeared on the periphery of general attention, on the blind spots of the era, and only later became perceptible to the

majority.

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Paradoxically, in our city, within a single organic institutional system live simultaneously and complementarily the retarding and deadening symptoms of the all-muffling Socialist (totalitarian)

dictatorship, together with the decisive speed that crushes and overwhelms the content and works of globalised power structures. Thus, as opposed to the slowness of the apparatus, the artists are

compelled to create up-to-date institutional ideas as a service. The artwork presented to the audience prevents a series of compromises. Due to the tight deadlines, often five minutes are

allotted to bringing about one decision regarding these events. Ten years after the changes in the political system, most of the art professionals are still not clear regarding curatorial work, they do not consider collaboration between artists closely pertaining to it. Curatorial work is encumbered

by the fact that there were no systematic changes on an institutional level, the institutional framework, thus, of contemporary art operating the slowing symptoms of the old mentality.

Thus, this is why our idea occurred, so that we could stretch back to the simplest strategies. The novelty is that we do this not in a saturated, thoughtful medium, but rather we would like to

render a chaotic and inattentive medium concerned with the method in which private property and studios are opened to colleagues, interested parties and thus the public. We wait with curiosity to

see how this method will function in the shadow of the current institutional structures.

Budapest, 2001 október

El-Hassan Róza, Hegyi Dóra, Sugár János, Süvecz Emese

[email protected]

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KÉT MűVÉSZ – KÉT KUR ÁTOR reciklált figyelem

2001 október 19: Laura Kavanaugh & Ian Birse kanadai vide óperformer páros

október 26: Várnai Gy örgy (1921 – 1992) karikat úra művész

november 2: Vadim Fishkin (Moszkva /Ljubljana)

november 9: Paksa Ottó festôművész

november16: TNPU archivum

november 23: Bruce Chesefsky fotóművész, Cleveland + Fia-Stina Sandlund svéd performer

november 30: Román György (1903 – 1981) festményei

december 7: Bodó Nagy Sándor videója

december 14: Ádám Zoltán szobra + két belgrádi videó: Nikoleta Markovic / Zsolt Kovac, Vera Vecanski / Vladimir Nikolic

2002január 4: Reuben & Maja Fowkes bemutatja Danko Friscic , Frane Rogic , Denis Kraskovic zágrabi művészeket

január 11: KsPál Szabolcs / Julien Maire , Strasbourg

január 18: Diana Kingsley , fotóművész, New York

január 25: Diana Kingsley encore

február 1: Sebe ö Talán apróhirdetések 90/91-bôl

február 8: Tamás Katalin 1982-es szociófotói

február 15: Timár Katalin bemutatja Stefan Nikolaev (Paris) 4 videóját

február 22: Cesare Pietroiusti, Roma, kiállítása

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március 1: Jaan Toomik , Paul Rodgers, Jaan Paavle, észt videók

március 8: Black Books , budapesti grafittimûveszek vázlatkönyvei

március 22: Várnagy Tibor kiállítása-júl–szept. Invesztálni a j övôbe, Budapest Box kiállítás, Ludwig Múzeum

július 12. Goran Djordevic elôadása, FKSE

aug. 23. SF film / Christian Bruno , vetítés, BBS

szept. 20. David Wilkinson kiállítása

szept. 29. Panaszláda bontás, Budapest Box ki állítás Ludwig Múzeum

okt.11. Tömérdek encore + beszélgetés

okt. 17. Kodol ányi Sebesty én kiállítása

okt. 24. Uglár Csaba kiállítása

nov. 1. Ericka Beckman I. , vetítés, BBS

nov. 8. Guy Debord , vetítés, BBS

nov. 15. Peter Callas , vetítés, BBS

nov. 22. Ericka Beckman II. , vetítés, BBS

nov. 29. Guy Debord encore, vetítés, BBS

dec. 6. Stefan Decostere , vetítés, BBS

2003jan. online panaszl áda

ápr. 4. Román György Népbírósági rajzok, 1949

július 12. KMKK Franchise, Balkan Konsulat, Graz, Rotor

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Das Manifest von KMKK (zwei KünstlerInnen, zwei Kuratorinnen), wurde im Herbst letzten Jahres verfasst und verkündete einige der gegenwärtigen Probleme der ungarischen Kunstszene. Es prangerte vor allem das Fehlen einer effektiven Infrastruktur an, sowie die politische und kommerzielle Manipulation einer Massenkultur, Probleme der Rezeption und Unterstützung von Gegenwartskunst. Weiters wurde auf die Ignoranz des institutionellen Kunstapparates, Missverständnisse zwischen KünstlerInnen und KuratorInnen und das Fehlen eines Marktes für nichtkommerzielle Kultur verwiesen. In ihrem Programm fordern KMKK einen lebendigen und fairen Austausch der Ideen zwischen KuratorInnen und KünstlerInnen sowie eine Rückkehr zu Strategien der Avantgarde, die bewusst die Grenzen öffentlicher Aufmerksamkeit tangieren, um das Interesse einer gezielten Kunstöffentlichkeit zu erwecken. Während des anschließenden Winters und Frühling organisierte KMKK wöchentliche Atelierevents, bei denen die Arbeiten der lokalen und artist-in-residence KünstlerInnen in informeller Umgebung präsentiert wurden und auch für GastkuratorInnen Raum geschaffen wurde: 'Wir warteten gespannt darauf, wie diese Methode im Schatten der institutionalisierten Strukturen funktioniert.' /.../ Zusätzlich zur Präsentation in den KMKK Studios wurde eine neue Installation geschaffen, die auf die Relevanz des Projektes hinweist. Sie besteht aus einem Teppich, auf dem eine original ungarische Wahlbox platziert wurde. Die MuseumsbesucherInnen werden gebeten, die Probleme der ungarischen Kunst aufzuzeigen, die unter den Teppich gekehrt wurden. Am Ende der Ausstellung wird die Box bei einem allgemeinem Event geleert und die Themen öffentlich diskutiert. Wir fragen uns ständig, ob diese Installation im Zentrum der Ausstellung den Höhepunkt der Budapest Box darstellt.Ein Bericht von Maja und Reuben Fowkes, publiziert in Umelec (Prag) Herbst 2002. http://www.reubenfowkes.net/contemporary/article4.htm

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http://www.year01.com/issue11/europe2.htmlTWO ARTISTS - TWO CURATORS-Recycled Attention-

Two artists - Two curators, has been established in 2001 in Budapest, Hungary by Roza El-Hassan, Dora Hegyi, Janos Sugar and Emese Suvecz. Exhibitions are open for one evening on Fridays between 19:00 and 22:00h and topics range widely. Between the summer of 2001 and 2002, events were presented weekly. On September 20, 2002, London based, David Wilkinson's small porcelain figures were on show, obtained from flee markets. Last November Vadim Fishkin, internationally known artist presented his work and views - just to name two examples. The audience numbers on the average thirty to forty people, but the importance of these events is much better reflected in other projects and shows which were informally initiated at these weekly meetings. Up till now most of the events were shown in the studio of Janos Sugar - from now on nomadic plans are developed for other sites. "I feel that the open discussion and presentation of issues which have been "swept under the carpet" is the most important feature of our activities" - said Janos. These activities were recently featured in the Budapest Box exhibition focusing on "the artist as curator" and presenting alternative Hungarian cultural projects since 1989 in the Ludwig Museum of Budapest/ Museum of Contemporary Art. This exhibition, curated by Dora Hegyi and Katalin Timar was unique in many ways. I was most impressed by the curatorial process which involved the active participation of the exhibiting groups and individual artists.

Emese Süvecz works as an independent curator and writer. Trained as an art historian, in her postgraduate studies she focused on gender related issues.

Dóra Hegyi, art historian works as a curator at the Ludwig Museum of Budapest/ Museum of Contemporary Art.

Roza El-Hassan, artist works with installations, videos, sculpture and has shown her work internationally. Roza has been instrumental in developing collaborative projects between Central European artists.

János Sugár studied sculpture at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts in Budapest (1979-84) and worked with Indigo, the interdisciplinary art group led by MiklÛs ErdÈly from 1980-86. His work includes installations, performances, as well as film and video. He has been teaching art and media theory in the Intermedia Department of the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts since 1990, and has exhibited widely throughout Europe and beyond. http://www.icols.org/pages/JSugar/JSugar.html.

The interview with Janos Sugar was conducted over e-mail and by personal conversation on September 25, 2002.

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Nina Czegledy: You have initiated the 2 artists 2 curator project less than a year ago. How and why did this initiative become such a successful reality in a city full of galleries and cultural events?

Janos Sugar: It started, as every well functioning concept starts, as a series of ad hoc, random, occasional, informal talks among friends. We all worked already together in several forms and contexts, Roza El Hassan, Dora Hegyi and Emese Suvecz. With Roza we exhibited several times together, we both used to work with the Vienna gallerist, Hans Knoll; Dora is a curator of Ludwig Museum/Contemporary Art Museum, Budapest; and Emese was the director of the Budapest branch of Knoll Gallery, Vienna. And we all draw similar consequences from our different activities, namely something is missing in the art scene: attention to a living dialogue.

In 2000/2001 the artist group _Kisvarso_ started discussions in their studio, called _Artwork of the Week_. It turned out a huge success, every second week Wednesday evenings 40-50 people discussed one particular artwork. There were other signs that talks, discussions became important, like a new underground movement. The institutions are clumsy, disoriented, or politically manipulated, and, of course, under financed-in the worst case all at the same time. There is no active art criticism; the visual arts are presenting a sort of a blind spot for the general audience. The professional audience suffers in a sort of an attention deficit disorder, there is no systematical critical activity, most of the art history of the last 50, 60 years remains undiscovered. In this aspect the situation did not change in comparison to the eighties in Hungary: contemporary visual art is not part of the intellectual discourse. Meanwhile cultural activity is remarkably strong and colorful. It is a strange contradiction in a country, where the literary scene is rich and professional.

NC: I have been very impressed by the spontaneous events you organize. Can you describe these activities and your aims?

JS: Between October 19. and March 22. we organized every Friday from 7 to 10 PM one-night exhibitions, all together 30. Originally we planned other sites as well, but since we had a cold winter the venue was my studio, where I have heating. My studio is rather small, the exhibition area is about 30 sqm, but it is in a good location: on the ground floor in a backyard in the center of the city. We exhibited artworks/artisticstrategies which we liked and considered important to think about. I call it _attention recycling_. We showed a broad range of artists from well known painters to Estonian videos, from cartoon artist to the black books of graffiti artists, etc. So, there was always an interesting small show, and with such a background most of the discussions centered on art. And we made another important decision, that instead of the low quality, so called gallery wine, we tried to offer some better wine, this was our main investment. We organized chairs too, so people could just sit and hang out. I consider the whole thing rather paradigmatic, as the role of art is changing the _real life_ aspect of art becomes important.

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NC: Please tell me about your audience

JS: We deliberately didn't want to reach masses, we were curious to see if the _mouth propaganda_ works. We sent out only e-mails, which is a very low key solution in the competitive "invitation-card" world. We attracted about 40 regulars, mainly artists and curators. Soon the whole thing developed into an informal weekly meeting point for them, for us. There were several projects, initiatives starting from a discussion at the studio to a small show in the Budapest Ludwig Museum/Contemporary Art Museum, curated by Dora Hegyi; and an online newsletter (editor Katalin Timar).

NC: You are a practicing artist. Can you tell me about your work in more detail?

JS: I am in-between smaller and larger shows, and yet uncertain projects. I just had a gallery show in Rome (CafÈ Europe, Center for Contemporary Art). The video I made in the last year (Typewriter of the Illiterate, DV 8Min) is purchased by the Frankfurt Museum of Modern Art. This video will be shown in an itinerary exhibition entitled "Without emergency exit", organized by MECAD of Barcelona. Now I am just looking for post production support of a nearly finished feature length film, Faust Again.

NC: What are your plans for the future?

JS: There will be a large exhibition called _Budapest Box_ in the Budapest Ludwig Museum/Contemporary Art Museum, curated by Dora Hegyi and Katalin Timar, and the theme is: Artists as Curators. The show tries to present all the artists initiated galleries, independent programs of the nineties. The KMKK will of course participate. And we plan to go further with the KMKK idea - maybe in other forms.

Nina Czegledy 10.02

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Two Artists Two Curators (KMKK) H

KMKK Franchise, Graz, 2003

Als wir die Einladung zum Budapester Teil von <rotor>’s Balkan Konsulat erhielten, war das Einzige, das wir vorab wussten, dass wir nicht bloß Teile unserer

Ausstellungspraxis „exportieren” wollten (Einzelabendshows, die wir 2001/02 wöchentlich veranstalteten), sondern unser Konzept als Franchising Ware anbieten.

Róza El-Hassan, Dóra Hegyi, János Sugár, Emese Sü[email protected]

KMKK (H) Transferred Attention(Cooperation with the Gallery Bleich-Rossi, Graz)

KMKK (H) Beschwerdebox/Graz, 2003

Talán Sebeö (H): Philo Advert Network, (2OO3, Fundgrube, Graz)

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Transferred Attention

(Cooperation with the Gallery Bleich-Rossi, Graz)

Bei unserem ersten Aufenthalt in Graz entschlossen wir uns, die Kunstszene der Stadt zu entdecken, in dem wir die Lager diverser Galerien durchstöberten. Gleich nach unserer Ankunft fiel uns das Buch Aktuelle Kunst in Graz in die Hände. Das Statement einer Galerie fiel uns besonders auf, das es das polemischste und doch

inspirierendste war, was uns dazu bewegt, die Galeristin Gabriela Bleich-Rossi anzurufen. “In den letzten Jahren wird das Wort Galerie oft verschämt hinter Wörtern wie Projektraum oder Laboratorium versteckt. Der Grund dafür ist, dass in den großen Kunstzentren wie New York oder Berlin die Szene an einen

Punkt gelangt ist, wo die Programme der Galerien oft verknöchert und in einer selbsterzeugten Musealität verfangen und dies in einem höheren Maße als in do manchen großen Institutionen... Die Galerie Bleich-Rossi

hat von ihren Anfängen ein etwas anderes Konzept entwickelt, da sie mehr als so manches Museum eine Vermittlerfunktion zwischen internationalen Entwicklungen und den spezifischen Entwicklungen der Stadt Graz mit den ihr eigenen Avantgarden im Bereich der Literaturen oder der Architektur übernommen hat. Es geht und ging dabei niemals um einen einfachen Transport verschiedener künstlerischer Positionen, sondern auch immer

um eine Kontextualisierung verschiedenster Praktiken vor Ort... Die Galerie und ihr Programm ist ein gutes Beispiel dafür, wie eine private Institution Dialoge anstiften und führen kann, die im übrigen Ausstellungswesen

so nicht zugänglich sind. ” (Martin Prinzhorn)Und es war so, die Galerie Bleich-Rossi war die erste, die wir besuchten, und dieser Besuch bestätigte unseren

ersten Eindruck.

Martin Kippenberger August Michael Krebber und Dan Graham

Ingeborg Gabriel Jörg Schlick

Hubert SchmalixSiegfried Anzinger

Jutta Koether

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Beschwerdebox/Graz

Innerhalb der Kulturen hat die Beschwerde immer ihren genauen Stellenwert. Es ist sogar nach gewissen Normen messbar, wie die Beschwerden verteilt werden. Man sagt zum Beispiel, dass

sich die Ungarn ständig beschweren, ähnlich wie die Berliner.Das Kunstbetrieb in Ungarn funktioniert seit langem nicht so, wie es wünschenswert wäre - ob es

eine Beschwerde oder eine Feststellung ist, hängt vom subjektiven Urteil ab. Auf dieser einfachen Aussage basiert die Initiative der Aktionsgruppe "Zwei Künstler - zwei Kuratoren". Sie sammeln die Beschwerden und messen ab: ist es viel oder wenig, wichtig oder unwichtig? Vor mehr als einem Jahr anlässlich einer Ausstellung sammelten sich die anonymen Fragen und

Beschwerden und sie wurden vor der breiten Öffentlichkeit publik gemacht. Die breite ungarische Öffentlichkeit war wie gewohnt (Beschwerde) nicht besonders offen und nicht besonders weit.

Die minimale Öffnung und Verbreitung war das Ziel, als die Fragen des Publikums in der von mir redigierten Internetzeitschrift in drei Gruppen verteilt erschienen.

(http://exindex.c3.hu/index.php3?inc=panaszlada.html) Auf diese Fragen haben wir zusammen mit den Organisatoren von Kuratoren und Künstlern Antworten gesucht. Die Beschwerden

erhielten eine Struktur und einige Antworten haben die Möglichkeit für das minimale Weiterdenken eröffnet. Ist es viel oder wenig, wichtig oder unwichtig ist auch nur subjektiv zu beurteilen. Aber wenn jemand ein nächstes Mal anfängt zu jammern, dann weiß er, dass er

längst nicht der einzige ist. (József Mélyi)

Es handelt sich hier um eine Anonymisierungsmaschine, einem Aufruf für radikale Ausdrucksweisen in einer scheinbar harmlosen Form, eine Situation die Provokationen

provoziert: Man kann alles fragen und einen Beitrag zur Schlusspräsentation liefern sowie Koautor der Schluss Sprech-Oper werden!

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Talán Sebeö: Philo Advert Network

Kunst mit gesellschaftlicher Munition entwickelt in einer demokratischen Gesellschaft andere Formen, als in einem repressiven Umfeld. Talán Sebeö ist wahrscheinlich die wichtigste unbekannte Figur der gegenwärtigen

ungarischen Kulturszene: Künstler, Aktivist, Schriftsteller, Organisator. Als radikaler Vertreter der Gemeinschaftskunst hat Talán Sebeö seit Anfang der achtziger Jahre Gemeinschaften ins Leben gerufen. Er

begann mit der Publikation von Csere (Austausch), der einzigen philosophischen Samizdat (Untergrund Publikation), und neben vielem anderen ist er Initiator der Titanic Gesellschaft.

Mitte der 80er wurden mit den politischen Veränderungen auch Kleinanzeigen frei von Zensur. Bis dahin waren auch Kleinanzeigen bestimmten Regeln unterworfen. Talán Sebeö wurde von der Liberalisierung dieses Genres

inspiriert und startete eine grossangelegte Werbekampagne. (zB: Time Patroulle gesucht) Er publizierte Anzeigen mit einem provokativen, poetischen Inhalt, der sofort das sehr gemischte spezielle Publikum der

Zeitschrift inspirierte. Einige Leute antworteten und Talán antwortete ihnen, worauf in kürzester Zeit eine neue Community gebildet wurde. Sie nannten sich die "32er" da sie die 32. Spalte der Zeitschift verwendeten. Neben der Philosophenhaftigkeit der Austauschfolge und der Titanic vertreten in seinem Schaffen die 32-er den Alltag

der Unideologischheit So entstand eine sehr interssante Kommunikation, manchmal sinnnlos, manchmal komisch, die witzigste Kommunikation entstand zwischen Leuten, die sich persönlich nicht kannten, da sie unter Pseudonymen inserierten. Sie verwendeten gleichzeitig mehrere Alter Egos, und die Identität wurde grundlegend

von der Kohärenz der publizierten Mitteilungen bestimmt. Durch die freundliche Unterstützung des deutschen Verlegers (Wolfram Helmle) dieser Anzeigenzeitung Hirdetés (Annoncen) füllten die 32er regelmässig zwei

Seiten mit ihren Messages. KMKK stellte Sebeö im Februar 2OO2 mit seinen Anzeigenaktivitäten der frühen 9Oer aus.

Die 32er sind eine Anfang der Neunziger generierte Bewegung, die auch heute aktiv ist, und mit der Vergleichbares erst ein halbes Jahrzehnt später in den virtuellen Gemeinschaften der online-Welt entstehen

sollte. Schon die Konzeption des Anzeigenblattes beruht auf direkten Beziehungen, als ein Forum, wo Verkäufer und Käufer durch das Ausschalten von Vermittlern aufeinander treffen können. Die das Blatt füllenden Anzeigen ergeben ein eigenartiges, aber authentisches Spiegelbild der Zeit. Die vernetzte Gemeinschaft der 32-er erinnert an eine online-Korrespondenzliste, die zugleich eine riesige und heterogene Leserschaft hat: all derer, die etwas

suchen oder anbieten.

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http://exindex.c3.hu/media/kommunike.htmlhttp://exindex.c3.hu/media/index.php3?mediafile=kmkk.html

http://exindex.c3.hu/media/index.php3?mediafile=kmkkx.html

http://exindex.c3.hu/index.php3?inc=panaszlada.html

http://www.year01.com/issue11/europe2.html

http://kulturserver-graz.at/kalender/2003-07-08.0336.e