Pauer, Gyula: Pseudo Works (1972)

At the chapel in Balatonboglár, at the initiative of László Beke, a meeting and exhibition took place on 26–27 August 1972 with the participation of Czech, Slovak, and Hungarian artists. The “conceptual event stemming from a Fluxus attitude” (György Galántai), whose “basic concept was to document a friendly gathering,” featured several actions initiated by László Beke in the spirit of artistic solidarity and political reconciliation (such as collecting synonymous words, a handshake action, and a tug-of-war). Building on this concept, Gyula Pauer carried out his own pseudo-action: he signed as his own the conceptual works created by Imre Bak, Peter Bartoš, Béla Hap, Péter Legéndy, László Méhes, Vladimir Popovič, Petr Štembera, Tamás Szentjóby, Péter Türk, and Jiří Valoch, and complemented them with the Czech translation of the Second Pseudo Manifesto.