Tamás St. Auby
Tamás St. Auby (also known as Tamás Szentjóby, Staub, Stjóby, Stauby, Emmy/Emily Grant, St. Aubsky, T. Taub, Turba, St. Ruby etc.) began his non-art-art activity with the end of his art activities – in 1966 he wrote his „last metaphysical poem“. Since then, he has created an extensive oeuvre made up of actions, happenings, objects, concrete/visual/action-poems, images, compositions, sculptures, photos, videos, mail art, email art, etc. Disseminating happenings and Fluxus he deems himself a Neo Socialist Realist. St. Auby founded the International Parallel Union of Telecommunications (IPUT)
under the cover-name of Parallel Course / Study Track in 1968 in Hungary. The aim of IPUT is the realization of the Subsistence Level Standard Project 1984 W (SLSP1984W). It was introduced by a lecture in 1975 in the Budapest Club of Young Artists, entitled “Make a Chair! – Hommage à George Brecht” and was based on the mutation of “non art as art” according to Marcel Duchamp, exceeded by Fluxus artist George Brecht to “non-art as art as non-art-art”. In 1974, St. Auby was arrested for participating in the Samizdat movement in Hungary. In 1975, he left Hungary and settled in Geneva due to his dual Hungarian-Swiss citizenship. There, after long years of illegality in Hungary, the headquarters of IPUT were reopened. Following the Hungarian State prank IPUT moved back to Hungary in 1991, where it opened the Near-East-European Homogenous Affiliate from where it controlled the phase of the Myth-Correction. IPUT also founded other parallel institutions, such as the Near-Eastern-European Free University for Unemployed Western Europeans with Astronomy-, Rock & Roll-, and St.rike- faculties in Geneva inthe late 1970s. IPUT organized the first Non-art-art Strike at the Musée Rath, Geneva in1980. In 1987 St-Aubsky opened the Ruine (Ruin) Gallery based on the theory and practice of “Noprofile, No professional, No profit”, which was operated in a ‘heterarchic’ manner (the exhibiting artist was his/her own gallery manager). After his return to Hungary, St. Auby opened the Neo Socialist Realist IPUT’s Global Counter-Art History Falsifiers Front in the name of Myth Correction in 2001. In 2003 he realized the “Portable Intelligence Increase Museum - Pop Art, Conceptual Art and Actionism in Hungary during the ‘60s – 1956–72,” an archive including about 70 artists and art-groups’ digitized works with more than 1200 items. Since 1991, Tamas St. Turba has lectured at the Intermedia Crèche of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts Budapest under the title “Parallel Course / Study Track II. – Anatomic Immortality” (or the difference between the Catholic M. Duchamp and the Protestant G. Brecht). D.H.
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