On Building Nations .<\/a><\/p>\nwith texts by Edit Andr\u00e1s, Zolt\u00e1n K\u00e9kesi, Szabolcs Kissp\u00e1l, Edit Moln\u00e1r and Marcel Schwierin<\/p>\n
254 Pages, with illustrations<\/p>\n
Design: KissPal Szabolcs<\/p>\n
Funded by: Goethe Institut, Stiftung Niedersachsen, ERSTE Stiftung, Nieders\u00e4chsisches Ministerium f\u00fcr Wissenschaft und Kultur<\/p>\n
Hungarian, English and German<\/p>\n
From Fake Mountains to Faith (Hungarian Trilogy)<\/em>, examines the complex and shifting relationship between the authoritarian turn and development of \u2018illiberal\u2019 Hungarian state policy and the political and cultural philosophy that operates as its ideological basis. The project takes Hungary as a case study of the global emergence of this particular philosophy. The narrative demonstrates how the current re-emergence of irredentist symbolism and the discourse of \u2018revisionist nationalism\u2019 and reconciliation hold a sustained and systematic place in politics. Through counter-fictionalisation (operating as the \u2018potential to deconstruct the myth from within\u2019) as its methodology, the docu-fiction project presents an analysis of the formation of national mythologies, their persistence and changing role in both political and everyday representation. With an interest in the relation between ethnicity, nation formation, and nationalism, the author\u2019s approach is corrective to past and present intellectual orthodoxies. It also addresses the main issues of national religion\u2014that syncretic mix of elements from folk Christianity and Neopaganism\u2014and their penetration into all aspects of everyday life.<\/p>\nFrom Fake Mountains to Faith (Hungarian Trilogy) <\/em>is made up of two docu-fiction videos: Amorous Geography <\/em>(2012) and The Rise of the Fallen Feather <\/em>(2016), and an installation The Chasm Records <\/em>(2016) that presents a fictitious museum setting. Within a larger historical and cultural framework, the work establishes interconnections between the three major elements of the state philosophy in question: the symbolism of the \u2018ethnic landscape\u2019 and political geography; the romantic historiography of national myths of origin; and Turanism, a re-emerging form of political religion.<\/p>\nThe trilogy is intended to be used as a documentation, a history book and a novel. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3379,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"class_list":["post-7275","publication","type-publication","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/edi-typ-24154.stage.sites.vh3-schrittweiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication\/7275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/edi-typ-24154.stage.sites.vh3-schrittweiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/edi-typ-24154.stage.sites.vh3-schrittweiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edi-typ-24154.stage.sites.vh3-schrittweiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/edi-typ-24154.stage.sites.vh3-schrittweiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/edi-typ-24154.stage.sites.vh3-schrittweiter.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}