Art Always Has Its Consequences: Artists’ Texts is a collection of manifestos, critical texts, and writings addressing public issues written by artists and artist groups from Eastern Europe between 1947 and 2009. (Engl.)

The reader is result of an international curatorial research collaboration of four organizations: What, How and for Whom/WHW, Croatia; New Media Center_kuda.org, Serbia; Museum Sztuki in ŁódÅź; and tranzit.hu.

With texts by Gábor Altorjay, Dimitrije Bašičević Mangelos, Dunja Blažević, Ákos Birkás, Włodzimierz Borowski, Zbigniew Dłubak, Goran Đorđević, Orshi Drozdik, Stanisław Dróżdż, Róza El-Hassan, Miklós Erdély, EXAT 51, Group February, The Group of Formalist Artists, Tibor Hajas, horrorkatze, György Jovánovics, Tadeusz Kantor, Lajos Kassák, Tamás Kaszás, Boris Kovač, KwieKulik, Siniša Labrović, Led Art, Vlado Martek, Slavko Matković, Teresa Murak, Orange Alternative, Andrzej Partum, Ewa Partum, Jerzy Rosołowicz, Tamás St.Auby, Mladen Stilinović, János Sugár, Tamás Szentjóby, Josip Vaništa, Peđa Vranešević, Branko Vučićević, Workers in Culture, Andrzej Wróblewski, Želimir Žilnik, and Artur Żmijewski.