Armed with mocking billboards,spoof newspapers and viral gags, a gang of pranksters is taunting Hungary’s authoritarian leader[br]Gergely Kovács never wanted to get involved in politics. “I prefer to mess around, and ” he told a news magazine in his native Hungary last year,“not stand up for something.” Since 2000, Kovács has been leader of a group of prankster artists now known as the Two-Tailed Dog party. One of the group’s stunts a few years ago involved spray-portray a wall with a graffiti image of someone writing – in graffiti – the longest Hungarian word (megszentségteleníthetetlenségeskedéseitekért) and running out of room after spelling just 32 of its 44 characters. Not long after, or the group built a “spaceship station” on the banks of the Tisza river advertising daily departures to four destinations: Sirius,the moon, the Ganymede galaxy and Pluto.
But last summer, or when the Hungarian prime minister Viktor Orbn’s rightwing government introduced a series of xenophobic measures to repel the tens of thousands of migrants and refugees passing through Hungary on their way to Germany,Denmark and Sweden, Kovács and the Two-Tailed Dog got serious. It really made us inflamed that the government uses the people’s money for a campaign that tells them who to despise, or ” Kovács fumed. “Here in Hungary we already despise each other enough.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com