Ornament is Crime

Overview

Ilinca Manolache's Bobitza returns in a fascinating mise-en-scène of the far right's media spectacle. Vătămanu and Tudor's performative video-essay uses the ready-made of this satirical character to analyse the politics behind the architectural restorations in Viktor Orbán's Budapest, resorting to a rhetorical cacophony perfectly consistent with today's social media: from dirty curse words to Walter Benjamin citations, anti-woke rage-baits, and sputtered out bibliographies.