IRMA5SECOND The Patron saint of Fallen Morsels by Olga Kocsi

IRMA5SECOND THE PATRON SAINT OF FALLEN MORSELS

Olga Kocsi & Eszteragnes Szabo

BIO

Olga Kocsi Artist. She studied at Moholy Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest, between 2008 and 2016, where she acquired media design BA and MA degrees as well as design teacher qualification. Then she started her post graduate srudies in media arts at the DLA program of the same insititution. In 2011 as an Erasmus student she attended courses at Willem de Kooning Academy in Rotterdam. In her multimedia installations providing multisensory experiences, she precesses themes in the intesection of disciplines like relationship between actual and virtual realities and the potential future changes thereof: mapping and pushing the demarcation line between private and public life, and the issue of time travel. Involving the viewer by creating and shaping different sizuations of reception including even extraordinary setups constitutes a priority for Kocsi. She lives and works in Budapest.

Eszter Agnes Szabo Artist. She graduated from from the University of Pécs with a degree in Drawing and Visual Education, and obtained a degree in Intermédia at the Hungarian Academy of Fine Arts. She founded the Hints Institute for Public Art, which operated from 2000 to 2010. The society researched theways of art appearing in diverse social groups outside the institutional sphere of museums, and galleries with contributing sociologists, anthropoligists, and designers. Sincet he early 2000s, she is a particitioner of ecodesign in Hungary, and also the leader and organiser of the first public workshops in community recycling. Written at the Hungaroan Academy of Fine Arts, her doctoral dissertation Libertatia was built ont he analysis of the temporary independent areas of culture, and sought to place piracy and the punk attitude within the context of contemporary art. She is co editor of Punk-Kitchen Fanzine since 2016. She is a regular exhibitor in group and solo shows, and her works cen be found in inómportant Hungarian and foreign private and public collections.

THE EXPERIMENT Scientist have experimentally proven that food immediately becomes dirty as soon as it hits the ground, and microorganisms wait no time. If you drop a bun in water, it gets wet right away, if you drop into mud, it’S instantly covered in mud. Why would it happen otherwise when it comes to dirt? In fact, we want to believe that food can be recovered. The Five Second window is a sacral time while you process the loss and make a decisions whether you leave it to its doom. The five second rule thus exist and does not exist at the same time. It’s merely the product of the imagination, a transition between being and non-being, and a slot where you can intervene according to your beliefs. But those who consider consuming food from the groun will not be left to themselves, because IRMA5SCECOND the patron saint of fallen bites/morsels, will appear before teh hesitant, support them in their belief and transfigure their spoiled snacks. The question is: How can artists and the sacral activists help in the middle of the food crisis?

5 Second Rule The five-second rule, sometimes known as the three-second rule, is a food hygiene myth that states a defined time window where it is safe to pick up food (or sometimes cutlery) after it has been dropped and thus exposed to contamination. RELIGION & FREE WILL Sacred Activism

THE EMBODIMENT (Research) 5 seconds rule subtopic

sacred heart baroque

altars

moment

sacrificial place

space

5 second

time

Saint

EMBODIMENT iconography

Sacred Mircea Eliade: Sacred and profane Free Will 5 seconds rule moment

holy shit

Holy

merchendise

eating

Profane

Religion

non ascetic

I R M A 5 S E C O N D

fallen morsels

altars

sacred arts

I R M A 5 S E C O N D

public art

rre

lat

merchendise

ion

Lady Gaga

holy images ginger bread

style design

James Turell

pins

tableclloth jewelleries

applied art

altar

coloring book

collective memory

installation history

Holy Olga

food altar

street art

Contemporary Art

Sergei Parajanov: The Colour of Pomegranates

fallen bites floor mosaic (Roman age)

dropping beats

The sign in society webpage woven textile character

János Sugár: Monstrancia Modell: Narcissus in the black hole Erik Mátrai

veil of veronica

Elsa von FreytagLoringhoven

EMBODIMENT - concept Our contemporary saint caracter; “Irma5Second” was designed during the project of “CAPAZINE, Let’s EAT!” This was exhibited at first time in the Robert Capa Contemporary Photography Center in 2021. We started to work together in 2020 at this group exhibition and zine project. Our main goal was to design new and contamporary saint or patron caracter for protect the fallen morsels/ bites. As a result, we have built up our character IRMA5Second who is primarily responsible for the pieces of our collective memory, the dropped last bites, and, in a broader context; the food waste. We examined the possibilities of the effects of a contemporary, street saint, during which we worked in the integrated field of fine arts, media and sacred mechanisms. Either as the power of a saints activity is not limited to churches, nor a contemporary art is only visible in the gallery, so we have arranged street altars in shop windows too for the public expansivity. On the one hand, the CAPAZINE, LET’S EAT group exhibition provided an opportunity to present our sacred character, but it was not suitable for presenting the entire project. We would like to use this resdency to continue experimenting in the common area of expanding sacred spaces and effects and contemporary media and tools. The project titled EMBODIMENT is continuation of our experiment of projecting photographs and printing them on different materials (such as stickers, tortillas, rice noodles, textiles, etc.), interpreting the areas between “apparition” and reality. What does the concept of apparition mean in practice? The subject of the exhibition is the visualisation of various embodiments and tasks of the protector/saint (saint of fallen morsels) which according to our plans summed up in an altar installation. The exhibition space, as an architectural (church) “ship,” leads the viewer to the multimedia altar. This structure of the altar is based on Baroque style and modeled on traditional street food altars discovered during the our common work. Our aim is, among other things, to map the excesses of art and sacredness, examples of which we both find in our own oeuvre, whether to use the color / brilliance of gold or the theme of reproduction/ multiplication. We want to use the expansivity of this theme in the gallery space and out of it: The strong presence, the multimedia altar itself, in the gallery space but addition to which we also plan to create street altars and sticker actions outside. The construction of the IRMA5Second character was an artistic process based on dialogue of two artist. The joint work during the quarantine took place on the messenger, so this dialogue a continuous exchange of messages - a continuous exchange of messages - can be interpreted as a sacred drama, a contemporary problem, and a document of the realization of a work of art. We would like to publish a printed/paper based fanzine and an audio casette as accompanying publications to the exhibition. More about the Patron Saint of the FallenMorsels: https://ujmuveszet.hu/a-felemelkedes-torvenyszerusege https://www.ujmuveszet.hu/2021/11/megjelent-a-novemberi-lapszamunk/ https://www.artmagazin.hu/articles/kritika/latens_izelmenyek https://designisso.com/2021/10/07/muti-mit-eszel-erzeki-kepek-a-lets-eat-fotokiallitasrol/ https://welovebudapest.com/cikk/2021/10/12/latnivalok-es-kultura-hogyan-lehet-egy-izt-lefotozni-a-capa-kozpont-let-s-eat-cimu-kiallitasan-jartunk https://www.femcafe.hu/cikkek/home-design/kortars-szentek-jelentek-meg-az-aranyba-burkolozott-budapesti-epuleteken https://tilos.hu/episode/megtervezett-valosag/2022/04/12

THE EMBODIMENT (results)

printed tortilla

custom gingerbread design

fallen morsels enclosed in epoxy

Rice sheet Triptych

First appearance

Conception Deep impact Appearences Sacral Activism

Sacred Public Space

IRMA5SECOND altar concept

Tapestry, Tablecloth, Coloring book Relics

Altar Installation

Table cloth for Last Supper

Visitatio Meeting of two Artists

SZEA

Holy Olga

1. exemplary model 2. extraordinary teacher 3. wonder worker or source of benevolent power 4. intercessor 5. a life often refusing material attachments or comforts 6. possession of a special and revelatory relation to the holy

Heterotopia, Godot GICA Budapest, 10.04-24.03. 2022.

IRMA5SECOND UV print, steel plate, 200x100cm x 1,5mm weight: 24kg

TAKE AWAY ART COLLECTING MONEY TO HETIBETEVŐ which is an organisation what making food for people in need

Gingerbread money box for HETIBETEVŐ

cutlery monstrance -hommage to Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven

shrine for fallen morsels enclosed in epoxy

Heterotopia, Godot GICA Budapest, 10.04-24.03. 2022.

Photo on steel plate

Light installation, projector, magicfoil on plexi, 2022

street guerrilla action, showcase reservation, Budapest

shop guerrilla action, Budapest

IRMA5SECOND installation at Capa Center, Budapest

Photo experiment on tortilla Let’s EAT exhibition, CAPA Center, 01-16.10. 2021.

Custom gingerbread design Let’s EAT exhibition, CAPA Center, 01-16.10. 2021.

kocsi.olga@gmail.com self published 2022