Mucsarnok/Kunsthalle, Budapest - is pleased to present e-flux video rental (EVR), a project by Anton Vidokle and Julieta Aranda, comprised of a free video rental, a public screening room, and a film and video archive. Its collection, selected in collaboration with over sixty international curators, artists and institutions consists of over 590 art films and video works, and is available to the public for home viewing free of charge.
EVR started in a small storefront on the Lower East Side in New York in 2004. Since then it has traveled to Portikus in Frankfurt, Kunst-Werke in Berlin, Manifesta Foundation in Amsterdam, Moore Space in Miami, Insa Arts Space in Seoul, and will soon appear at Pist in Istanbul, Arthouse in Austin and other locations. At Mücsarnok the original New York storefront has actually been rebuilt inside the kunsthalle.
For each of its new locations, EVR expands its inventory to include new selections by local curators invited jointly with the hosting institutions. In keeping with this, Mucsarnok has invited Franciska Zolyom, Zsolt Petranyi, Hajnalka Somogyi, Livia Paldi and Edit Molnar to select new artists.
The film and video works were selected by (listing to be completed): fernanda arruda, gabriel perez barreiro, regine basha, katrin becker, ariane beyn, daniel birnbaum, adam budak, cac tv, luca cerizza, binna choi, mariana david, catherine david, nikola dietrich, power ekroth, mai abu eldahab, hedwig fijen, elena filipovic, lauri firstenberg, susanne gaensheimer, and many others.
e-flux video rental contains works by the following artists (listing to be completed): 24/7 tv, a-clip, doug aitken, lucas ajemian, jennifer allora & guillermo calzadilla, paulo almeida, can altay, carlos amorales, andré amparo, vasco araújo, assume vivid astro focus, michel auder, sven augustijnen, miriam bäckström, lucas bambozzi, edson barrus, judith barry, yael bartana, taysir batniji, thomas bayrle, sarah beddington, and many others.
