Harvesting Operations

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The different colored circles represent higher and lower temperature... Attila ZEMLÉNYI (art journalist/writer) trying to get a sense out of the hard contemporary art tokens together with Szilvia NAGY (cultural anthropologist/curator). Miskolc Gallery, KORTÁRS BULVÁR exhibition opening

Harvesting or collecting firewood varies by the region and culture. Some places have specific areas for firewood collection. Other places may integrate the collection of firewood in the cycle of preparing a plot of land to grow food as part of a field rotation process. Collection can be a group, family or an individual activity. The tools and methods for harvesting firewood are diverse...

There is a statue of a dog in Miskolc which is quite popular amongst local preferences of public monuments. The name of the dog was Mancs and he is famous for his international activity as part of the Spider Special Rescue Team of Miskolc...
Our urban lumberjacking activity drives us into both the official and marginal places that form the city's cultural scene. We are not asked to clarify the things that make the different actors to stay apart from one another and therefore we'll do it. For a rōnin like us is important to maintain ethics in relation to all and find ballance in our actions in order to draw a fairly objctive thermal map. Therefore, we will tease very ethically... You are a samurai and you have a sword, but when no opportunity of performing your profession arises, there is no shame in measuring your skills on a firewood cut.

Anywhere we go, we ask all the people we meet about a person named Miklos KOVER or some group called "Holt Dog". All Miskolc is intrigued, though no barman (in this city most of them are women) can point his finger to the corner table where some listless, totally unsocial individual is just pouring the last drops of pálinka from the bottle into his glass.
All we found out by now is that holt means dead (in hungarian) and that the name appears listed only on the english wikipedia page for "Miskolc". In other words, it disappears if the same page is translated into hungarian. We don't know what is or is there any connection to the famous Miskolc dog that died of pneumonia in 2006, or is it just a lampoon on worldwide and specifically hungarian fast-food consumerism, but we are determined to find it all out...

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Urban lumberjacking is a term that defines a particular type of skipping or dumpster diving where the focus is to salvage wood either for home construction or for home heating.

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Seven Samurai - the Firewood Scene:
http://www.trilulilu.ro/tziganasj/78a5d0d471f1bd
The Spider Dog:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mancs

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KlubGaléria - FESTŐMÚVÉSZ flat exhibition opening. Szabolcs (with a glass of wine in the hand) is very modest in his speech...

Szabolcs KAKUK - "MADARAK"/"BIRDS"

KORTÁRS BULVÁR - "Andrew King"