“The foundational strategy of (Endre) Tót's conceptual oeuvre is this statement "I am glad if...", first found in a 1971 postcard reading, as noted above, "I was glad to print this sentence," and then in his early series of photo and video performances, Joys. In Joys, the artist proclaims his gladness at enacting the mundane or absurd-"I am glad if I can take one step," or "I am glad if I can stare at a wall." In the context of 1970s Hungary, these Joys were subtly subversive-when Tót's first Joys video performances were screened in the presence of a state censor, the film was confiscated and destroyed for its tongue-in-cheek gladness.

excerpted from 
Endre Tót, Gladness and Rain

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