‘Infermental’ curated by George Clark and Dan Kidner, surveys the ‘first international magazine on videocassettes’ initiated by Hungarian Filmmaker, Gábor Bódy in 1981 and is the first significant presentation of the project in a UK gallery. A specially built screening room and three viewing platforms, designed by artist James Richards, host three of the eleven issues of the ‘magazine’ that were produced over a ten year period, between 1981 and 1991. Bódy pitched Infermental – a compound word made up of the words ‘international’, ‘fermentum’ and ‘experimental’ – as a project that would promote ‘new experiments in our information culture’ and build bridges between ‘media islands’. His idea to build an ‘Encyclopaedia of Recorded Imagery’ was realised with boundless energy and a visionary zeal. These qualities lived on in the project long after Bódy’s early death in 1985; his widow, Vera Baksa-Soós continued to manage, promote and distribute the editions until 1991.


