COURAGE

connecting collections

In 2016, Miroslav Svoboda obtained from Dušan Havlíček a complete collection of the Czechoslovak exile magazine “Listy”, which was published in Rome. The collection was privately owned by Dušan Havlíček, who decided to make it accessible only to scriptum.cz. It is a unique collection of the magazine, to the present day (after 1991 it was published in Prague, in 2003 the magazine was moved to Olomouc, where it was published by Burian and Tichak).

The Scriptum website is unique in that the collection of “Listy” writings had not been accessible at all, and cannot be found anywhere else in one place.

In 2016, curator Zsófia Szilágyi, as a part of the preparations for the exhibition opened later in that year, made twenty video interviews with the one-time authors, editors, as well as supporters of the prohibited journal “World in Move” (1975–1983)
The collection, with the edited versions of the interviews, was displayed during the entirety of the exhibition (November 2016–February 2017), and is still available for research at the archive of the Ferenczy Museum in Szentendre.
On the basis of the raw footage from the twenty individual video interviews, three thematic documentary films were edited:
1) Tiltakozz! Bojkottáld! Szólalj fel! (Protest! Boycott! Speak up!), 1 hour.
2) Klub - ankét - est - vita (Club meetings – evening talks – public debates), 1 hour, 7 mins.
3) A betiltott Mozgó Világ, 1975-1983 (The prohibited journal “Moving World,” 1975–1983), 1 hour, 40 mins.
All three films are in Hungarian with no dubbing or subtitles, and can be seen at the Ferenczy Museum’s website: https://mozgovilagfmc.tumblr.com/

In October 2016 Karol Radziszewski presented the activities of the Queer Archives Institute with the "pop-up intervention". He created his temporary office in the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb and showed the archival and visual materials on gender, queer, sexuality and minority strategies in Poland.  

Karol Radziszewski’s artist-in-residence was part of the Performing the Museum program, project is co-funded by the EU’s Creative Europe programme, by the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Croatia.

Queer Archives Institute special appearance in MSU permanent collections was organised in collaboration with Queer Zagreb Season.