The exhibition features 98 billboards, 20 videos and 26 statements ? the best of more than a thousand submissions.
Péter Geszti, one of the exhibition?s three founders, notes that Hungarians demonstrate mainly for political reasons, although demonstrations against social ills are equally justified. ?This year's exhibition is meant to serve as an example of how to make people face certain issues in a context other than politics," he says.
The theme of open eyes is communicated in typical ARC fashion in the poster for the show. The poster shows the exhibition?s three founders with weirdly open eyes; but, at second glance, one realises they are in fact closed and only made up to appear as if they were open.
For the first time this year, the show?s organisers involved visitors in a demonstration against indifference on the opening evening, offering anyone who wished to participate signs with open eyes.
"We have been working on providing a space for interface and demonstrating against problems that might otherwise be ignored for seven years. Returning visitors make up a large share of our audience, so it was time to involve them too," said Barna Fatér, another of ARC?s founders.
In addition to the demonstration, the opening of the exhibition featured performances by Romano Drom, Anima Sound System, Kistehén Tánczenekar, Heaven Street Seven, Colostar, and The Madách Musical Dance School. Visitors also heard statements on responsibility produced by Hungarian writers especially for the occasion.
Source: Hungarian News Agency (MTI)
