Makovecz Imre (Toronto, 1991)

CONTENTS ABOUT THE LOSS OF PRESENCE SELECTIONS FROM THE WRITINGS AND INTERVIEWS OF IMRE MAKOVECZ Diary IL Details. About the loss of presence Reflections about the Hungarian words of construction House of false historic recognition Published as an exhibition catalogue in Zalaszentgrót, 1980 Message to the Survivors, Orwell-Year 1984. Environments by invited artists in Graz, Schlossberg. Published in Architekturvision, Graz, 1984 What has happened and what could have happened. Open lecture, 1986.Published in different catalogues in Hungarian and in German Interview by Judit Osskó in the Hungarian Television. Details. 1988 Exhibition poster, Zalaegerszeg, 1989 Introduction to the catalogue of the exhibition in Rotterdam.Published by the Architectural Museum of the Netherlands, 1989 November, 1989. Published in ORSZÁGÉPÍTŐ 1990/1 Interview by Nigel Hoffmann, 1990. Details. Published in Transforming Art magazine, Sidney, 1991 Introduction to the catalogue of the Hungarian National Pavilion at the Sevilla World Exhibition 1992. Under preparation. We trust more in adventure, in travelling than in work perhaps because we hope for a challenge to change ourselves. We trust in changing the participants, in mental and physical faithlessness because the result of the desired transformation can be performed in it in advance: not only we ourselves but also our environment is changing. We spend hours sitting in front of the televison to replace the lack of our inner storms of pictures with something. The long history, the fight for the true possession of our personality seems to have become more serious again. A new world seems to arise from oblivion and omissions, an organized world of illusions in which there is no need for our participation. What do we forget? To greet each other, to stand straight, to look face to face, to give way to the person coming toward us, to shake hands, to tell tales to children, to sing, to work and we forgot to be alone because in our houses it is impossible to stay alone. That is we forgot to be present. The neglect of being present may be the most characteristic symptom of our age. I feel this kind of nearly physical oblivion identical with destruction. The picture of mankind that forgot itself is equivalent with the picture of the died out earth. I cannot get away from the picture that the oil-fields beneath the surface of the earth are not only forests of the past but the vestiges of people, animals and towns from a total destruction. Today the smoke of burnt bodies of the mankind of old times rises to the air through the exhaust-pipe of our cars. Wasn’t that old tragedy perhaps preceded by a universal loss of presence? The one who forgets does not forget personal experiences, but forgets the fact that in thinking, the world can turn into reality because the spirit was originally a living part of an inexpressible human unity. The personal rememberance is a step towards the “whole”, while its existence “uncontrolled” and without personal consciousness may be the essence of oblivion. The word precedes birth, it stands calmly on the borders of existence following things beyond it. Memory, like a characteristically shaped body is waiting there unconsciously for the word before the life which is wait­ing for it. Body coincides with memory and memory co­incides with the word and the word coincides with a body beyond existence. Oblivion loses a previous body. The denial of the personal ancestors, the extinction of the progeny outside love and multiplication may be equivalent in the world beyond existence with a volley on the condemned. Bodies coinciding with the unexpressible are means of the magic of a life friendly with those beyond existence. Perspective view to the first alternative 1987 Enlargement project Witten (Germany) Waldorf teachers seminar.

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