Rotterdam Photo Festival 2020 / Syporca Whadal és GálosLászló performance

Opening performance for the exhibition of László Gálos at Rotterdam Photo Festival.

Videos shown during the performance:
1. Royal Hungarian Noisemakers - Time Cutter
original video available here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FGCBA...

2. Syporca Whandal Black Soup ZERO
video documentation-video performance
video and music by Syporca Whandal

3. László Gálos Subordinatio video performance
Video by Brownhandfilm Tamás Varga
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMiw...
Music by Syporca Whandal

Performers of opening ceremony at Rotterdam Photo Festival :
László Gálos L1-resident 2020
Syporca Whandal L1-member
Szilvia Daróczi
Facebook events:
https://www.facebook.com/events/19186...

Video documentation:
Camera: László Gálos
Video: Syporca Whandal
Photos: Áron Süveg.

Rotterdam Photo Festival is an annual photo manifestation that takes place during Art Rotterdam Week, where art lovers will have the opportunity to visit numerous art and design events. Located at Deliplein (Katendrecht district), Rotterdam Photo celebrates the wide spectrum of photography as it presents itself in our contemporary image culture. Together with the exhibitions at the Nederlands Fotomuseum and the fine art photography fair Haute
Photographie, the 'Kop van Zuid' will transform into the one-stop hub for photography fans from February 6th-9th, 2020.

Rotterdam Photo's theme of the year 2020 is TRANSITIONS.
For exhibiting Hungarian artist László Gálos will be performing “Collodion-transitions” during the launch of the festival.

With this performance, the artist aims to make it clear how fragile and illusory the relationship between the created artwork as a worldview, and the feelings, thoughts and gestures that it contains, even if it is considered to be primarily documentary. In addition, the performance studies how works of art influence our perception of life and of reality - not only in their finalized, polished state, but also during and throughout their creation process."

As one of the selected participants this year, he will also be showing his project “Collodion-archive”:

At best, one in every hundred makes it into an actual photographic image. The rest of them sink into oblivion, disappear without a trace, just like the moment that they failed to capture. Gálos shares a melancholic story. The depressing account of failed, unsuccessful, aborted and resumed images, of what was wanted and what was create