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  Hatikva | 2014

The Hope is a temporary public audio-monument, which has been produced in a collaborative way. During the official Holocaust Memorial Year in Hungary (2014) I sent a request of collaboration to 23 Hungarian radio stations asking them to broadcast a special recording of the Hatikvah song (a 19th century song, since 1897 the anthem of the Zionist Movement and since 1946 the national anthem of the state Israel) on the same day, at the same time. Fragment from the request letter: „The different groups of the Hungarian society interpret differently the historic events of the past, the grievances they suffered, the deprivation of their rights, their humiliation or even the gravity of their failures and sins. (...) therefore the fragmentation of the collective memory augments further, which cannot and will not be absolved by any political remembrance act practiced by the state. The citizens of Hungary do not form a community of memory.” Because of the socio-political controversies around the Memorial Year only two stations joined the project by broadcasting the song in time, two stations broadcasted it at different hours, the rest of the stations either replied negatively with various excuses, or didn’t reply at all. Sequences of 8 broadcasted recordings of the given day and time are played synchronized in the installation. ◼︎ Shows ◼︎ 2016 2B Gallery, Budapest ◼︎ 2013 Private Nationalism, Pécs M21 Gallery (HU) ◼︎ Ostrale’14, Dresden (DE) ◼︎