2024

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,...

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...

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...

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 transparent fence,...

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,...

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...

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...

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 and...

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...