2nd DUNAÚJVÁROS GARAGE FESTIVAL
Tehnika Schweiz ( Gergely László, Péter Rákosi)

Date: 18-19 September 2009.

Location: Garages on Béke tér, Dunaújváros

This year the second edition of the Dunaújváros Garage Festival takes place between 18-19 September at the same location, with an extended program (in- and outdoor concerts, DJ Garage, Radio Garage, Museum Garage, BMX Garage, Chill-out Garage, Electroacoustic and noise Garage ...) , and with the participation of some garage owners.
The highlight will be an unusual demonstration of the Festival participants (jugglers, BMX cyclers, the local brass band, etc.) - starting on 19 September at 3 pm - leading from the city hall to the garage-quarter.

The project was initiated by the artist duo Tehnika Schweiz (Gergely László and Péter Rákosi) who have started working on one of the largest garage-streets of Hungary, in Dunaújváros end of 2007. The garage-settlement is a union of 1200 garages on the side of the IRON-factory, upon which the development and construction of the entire city of Dunaújvros was built on in the early 1950s. These garages were only built in the late 1960s, for some workers of the factory. The garage-street, in a perfect grid, resembles the structure and masterplan of the city of Dunaújváros (former Stalinváros). Today, the garage-city is mostly a meeting-place for men, a location for escaping family life, or a scene of alternative youth culture. Large quantitites of locked garage-doors hide secrets, private spaces, hobbies and professions.

The project consists of four stages , so far. First, the artists started to take as many pictures of garage-interiors as possible, to understand the varieties of garage usage and to get to know garage-design better.
In the second phase of the project, the artists rented on of the garages. In this garage they started to install and stage ideas of what they , their friends and relations imagine to find behind a locked garage-door.
With the participation of almost all local amateur bands the 1st Dunaújváros Garage Festival was organized on 26 -28 September 2008. Beside concerts the artists rented 5 garages, which were used for the following purposes: garage museum, cinema, free stage, festival office and a bar.

Almost a year later, on 18-19 September 2009, the 2nd Dunaújváros Garage Festival took place.

Link:
www.garazsfesztival.com
www.garazsfesztival.blogspot.com

Collaborating partners:
Hungarian Institute of Culture and Art, Institut of Contemporary Art Dunaújváros


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