alternativni način života i otpor svakodnevnih, alternativni oblici obrazovanja
avantgarda, neoavantgarda
cenzura
demokratska opozicija društveni pokreti državni nadzor
emigracija/ izgnanstvo
etnički pokreti
film filozofski/ teorijski pokreti
književnost i književna kritika kritička nauka
likovna umetnost
manjinski pokreti medijska umetnost
mirovni pokreti muzika nacionalni pokreti narodna kultura
naučna kritika
nezavisno novinarstvo
pokret za ljudska prava
popularna kultura
preživjeli progona pod autoritarnim / totalitarnim režimima
prigovarači savesti
religiozni aktivizam
samizdat and tamizdat stranački disidenti
studentski pokret
theatre and Performing Arts underground culture
visual arts
women’s movement
youth culture zaštita prirode
artefakti
drugi drugi umetnički radovi
film
fotografije
grafika memorabilija
muzički snimci
nacrt i karikature
nameštaj
odeća
oprema
pravna i/ili financijska dokumentacjia predmeti primenjene umetnosti
publikacije rukopisi siva literatura
skulpture
slike
snimanje glasa
video snimci
The collection of Oral History Archive (OHA) of the KARTA and the History Meeting House strives to show Polish and Central European modern history from the individual, everyday life perspective. It consists of thousands of biographical interviews and family photographs which witness to the ambiguity, richness and different modes of lifestyles before, during, and after the World War II. First interviews of the OHA were recorded in the 1980s.
From the agents’ reports about the Orfeo-group, one gleans insights into one of the most unique alternative theatre companies in Hungary. These accounts were based on personal meetings and recollections of the performances. The secret police was interested in members’ political views, and they wanted to know how their ideas were presented in the plays and the talks and debates held after the performances. These documents are preserved at the Historical Archives of the Hungarian State Security (ÁBTL). The folder with the cover name “Community” shows how the political police created a picture about a group of “hostile” artists, who were perceived as dangerous to “the existing social order.”
The members of Orfeo built a semi-detached house in Pilisborosjenő (15 kilometers from Budapest) between 1972 and 1974, when they wanted to improve the conditions under which they worked. The first house became the home of the actors of the Orfeo Studio. The Orfeo Group constructed a commune, while also holding theatrical and musical performances and creating artwork and photos. The creation of a collection on their work is the result of ordinary activities and an alternative, opposition-cultural lifestyle, which was, in turn, embodied in a house and objects. The inner spaces, the furniture in the house, and the uses of the furniture themselves are artistic works. The houses were spaces of the alternative theatre work and alternative lifestyle of Orfeo, which was condemned by the state authorities as violating the norms and morals of social coexistence.
Materials of the Original Videojournal collection constitute hundreds of hours of uncut videos that captured fragments of alternative culture, dissent movements and news reports about developments in Czechoslovakia in the late 1980s. Samizdat audiovisual magazine was founded in 1987 at the instigation of Václav Havel. The Original Videojournal aesthetic and style remotely resembled television news in state media. This established form of news allowed it to target a wide audience while at the same time criticising the restricted view of the official media.