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Свързване на колекции

The collection of photographs by Croatian conceptual artist Tomislav Gotovac presents four performances (Reading the Newspapers, Listening to the Radio, Watching Television and Telephoning) from the 1980 and 1981 in which the artist awaited the death of Yugoslavian President Josip Broz Tito, thus underscoring the social and media psychosis of that moment. The work used a subversive strategy by which the artist indirectly drew the public and socialist regime into the performance, leaving them to think: what is the artist showing?

The István Darkó Legacy – Péter Egyed Private Collection, beside the documentary material of unconventional childhood activity and the sole appreciable Transylvanian Hungarian radio play of the Romanian communist regime, contains writings that – in form of fantastic stories, evading the censorship of the time – made possible the representation of an “Other“ world completely different from the Party ideology.

The collection reveals the life and work of the famous Lithuanian theatre director Jonas Jurašas. He was expelled from the position of director of the Kaunas State Drama Theatre in 1972. Jurašas did not agree to work under the proposed conditions of ‘Soviet theatre director’. He expressed his own view of what kind of working conditions and rights artists, and specifically theatre directors, should have. His terms were rejected by Soviet cultural administrators. Jurašas became unemployed, and had to endure poor living conditions. He and his family were among the first people in Soviet Lithuania to request permission to emigrate to the West, and received it from the Soviet government.

Колекцията, която представя живота и творчеството на Севдалина Панайотова, показва всекидневната и последователна опозиция срещу лицемерието на структурите на държавния социализъм, срещу статуквото, на една учителка по литература, ръководителка на драматичен състав, общественичка и гражданка. Севдалина Панайотова, учителка и културна деятелка, не е известна писателка и режисьорка, нито популярна дисидентка, но целият й живот и творчество са бунт срещу опита на социалистическата държава да наложи щампи, срещу псевдо морала и псевдо художествеността, срещу  принципите на социалистическия реализъм в литературата и театралното изкуство.

Колекцията от книги, сценарии, снимки от постановки, интервюта, давани от Севдалина Панайотова и интервюта за нея, публикувани статии, показва една всекидневна гражданска и културна опозиция. Опозиция чрез критична към системата тематика при преподаването на литература и в театралния състав, както и чрез използваните иновативни изразни средства - съпротива срещу налаганата художествена форма.