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<div><i><b>PST (Public - Street - Tactical). The Public Art
Practice of Janos Sugar</b></i><b>,</b> published by tranzit. hu
in Budapest, is launched on March 14, 2017 in Budapest. <br>
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<div><b>Time:</b> March 14, 2017, 7 pm </div>
<div><b>Venue:</b> Mayakovsky 102, the open office of tranzit.
hu, 1068 Budapest, Kiraly utca 102.</div>
<div><b>The book is presented by</b> Beata Hock, cultural
historian </div>
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The Hungarian and English language book <i>PST (Public - Street
- Tactical). The Public Art Practice of Janos
Sugar,</i> published by tranzit. hu, endeavors, on the one hand,
to contextualize Sugar's public art activity within an international
framework, considering also local specificities. On the other hand, it
looks at all of his initiatives that connect to the umbrella term PST,
reinterpreting also such works from the 1980s as<i> Fast
Culture</i> or the <i>Persian Walk</i>. </div>
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<div>The story of the book on the public art practice of <b>Janos
Sugar</b> goes back to 2006, and even earlier, to 1993, to
his <i>Sztriptiz </i>[Striptease] project. His plan to cast
in bronze the graffiti Sztriptiz -spayed on the wall of a building
in Budapest, most probably in the 1980s-was made first in 1993 for
the exhibition <i>Polyphony: Social Commentary in Contemporary
Hungarian Art</i>. After it fell through,
Sugar's <i>Sztriptiz </i>project was the winner of tranzit.
hu's open call <i>Unrealized Art Projects</i> in 2006.
Yet, due again to the failed attempt to obtain the necessary
permissions, the plan remained unrealized in the 2000s as well. After
this, the idea of a book emerged that collects Sugar's works and
projects, which-similarly to <i>Sztriptiz</i>-are made
primarily not for an art public but the urban, public space. </div>
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<i><b>PST (Public - Street - Tactical). The Public Art Practice of
Janos Sugar</b></i><br>
Hungarian and English <br>
<b>Authors</b>: Dora Hegyi, Sandor Hornyik, Janos Sugar, Eszter
Szakacs, Andrea Tarczali </div>
<div><b>Edited by</b> Eszter Szakacs</div>
<div><b>Published by</b> tranzit. hu, Budapest </div>
<div><b>Year:</b> 2016<br>
<b>Pages:</b> 136</div>
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></span>t-tactical</a><br>
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The book can be ordered from tranzit. hu by email at <a
href="mailto:office@tranzitinfo.hu">office@tranzitinfo.hu</a>. <br
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tranzit. hu, Budapest <br>
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