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  Identity correction | 2013

The legislative steps since the year 2010 in Hungary point towards an authoritarian transformation of the institutional structures and funding system of cultural life, by giving an ultra conservative artist group close to the rightwing government an unassailable position of power. As a result of these decisions, the government has endangered the long term autonomy, professionalism and democratic procedures of Hungarian contemporary art. Hungary’s most important exhibition venue, the The Kunsthalle Budapest was also given to the above mentioned group. Since the beginning of the year 2013 a weekly series of artistic interventions has started, which expresses the indignation and protest of some of the most important Hungarian contemporary artists. ◼︎ intervention: on the two poles which stands in front of the cultural institution there use to be two flags, a national one and the one of the EU since 2004, the year in which Hungary has joined the EU. Following the above mentioned cultural takeover the EU flag was exchanged with a second national flag, displaying thus two of them on the both flagpoles. On 21 November, 2013 I replaced one with the EU-flag, as a protest intervention against the conservative and nationalistic cultural policy of the actual government which outlaws the critical art.