by admin | Sep 6, 2024 | ENGLISH, PLACCC 2024 en
In the heart of Budapest, facing Keleti railway station, lies a rare field where time stands still – a liminal space where the ghosts of architectural archaeology coexist with nature’s persistent growth. This urban green void, protected by a fragile...
by admin | Aug 29, 2024 | ENGLISH, PLACCC 2024 en
G.Z.: I got my faith from Grandma. She enrolled me in religious education: just in time, because I wanted to play the role of victim to someone. The Lord of All proved to be perfect: from then on, I held God accountable for suffering. Since then, I have been more...
by admin | Aug 29, 2024 | ENGLISH, PLACCC 2024 en
Shift: work done in a specific period of time. The period of time when workers are assigned to the same slot. A group of people working at the same time. There is day, night or even weekend shift. The title refers to the...
by admin | Aug 28, 2024 | ENGLISH, PLACCC 2024 en
Being made out of water means belonging somewhere. By drinking a glass of tap water, we are not only connected to the network of sewers that run through Budapest, but also to the thousands of square kilometres of the Danube catchment area – with all its history...
by admin | Aug 28, 2024 | ENGLISH, PLACCC 2024 en
Rita Hoofwijk is a Dutch artist affiliated at SoAP – Space oriented Artistic Practice. Her work takes place in various locations and contexts and attentively explores these spaces that define her practice. What emerges is site-specific work of varying form and scale,...
by admin | Aug 25, 2024 | ENGLISH, PLACCC 2024 en
PLACCC Festival launched the Artist as Curator initiative in 2023 with the aim of making the programme selection more horizontal by including at least one project each year which is proposed by artist(s) who regularly collaborate with PLACCC. Last...
by admin | Aug 25, 2024 | ENGLISH, PLACCC 2024 en
Following the presentation of Igor Shugaleev’s and Sergey Shabohin’s The body you are calling is currently not available at PLACCC 2022, the Belorusain artists are back in Budapest wiht their new autobiographical monoperformance-manifesto. A week before...
by admin | Aug 25, 2024 | PLACCC 2024 en
Tamás Rojik’s youth novel Drought is the starting point of our project. The novel is set in 2050 and presents a dystopia focusing on global warming. The author projects the consequences of this on Budapest and Hungary, e.g.: the streets of Budapest are no...
by admin | Aug 25, 2024 | PLACCC 2024 en
Underpasses are characterised by emptiness due to the lack of aesthetics and personality, and emptiness is uncomfortable. You cannot relate to it. Yet, paradoxically, the lack of identity and the emptiness that we experience in these places can bring us closer to...
by admin | Aug 25, 2024 | PLACCC 2024 en
One of the important challenges of our time, especially for the metropolitan way of life, is to reconnect with the complexity of our inherent analog nature, to rehabilitate the richness of perception and emotional relationships. Digital stimuli involve fewer senses,...
by admin | Aug 25, 2024 | PLACCC 2024 en
The various urban developments are determined and planned by the values of current economic policy, and these values can be read on our public spaces. If our visible world is the tip of the iceberg, what do our public spaces say about our society, our shared values...
by admin | Aug 24, 2024 | ENGLISH, PLACCC 2024 en
In 2021, PLACCC launched Sensing the City, a series of experimental micro-interventions by participating artists responding to pressing environmental issues. This year’s series of events will take place from 3 to 8 September 2024 in various...
by admin | Aug 24, 2024 | PLACCC 2024 en
Is something missing from your people-centred cultural bubble? Are you triggered by new ways to get intimate with your surroundings? Would you discover the joys of invisible togetherness with individuals hiding within arm’s reach? Micro-cruising will lure you...
by admin | Aug 20, 2024 | ENGLISH, PLACCC 2024 en
What do a handful of soil, the forest, city greens, or some invisible creatures have to do with the health of our human and more-than-human bodies? Microbial Futures Lab is a traveling laboratory, a constantly expanding collection of future medicines,...
by admin | Aug 19, 2024 | ENGLISH, PLACCC 2024 en
We invite you to come together and experience the body experience based exercises that have been key elements of our work so far. We will create interactive and experiential stations where we will mix and deepen our relationship with our environment / the Danube / the...
by admin | Aug 19, 2024 | ENGLISH, PLACCC 2024 en
What fits in a standard sized suitcase? How does journeying affect our body and mind? Is mobility really connecting Europe or did it become an addiction, exhausting relocation,that brings just as much separation as community? Journeying is an ongoing artistic research...