7th September 2026 //
Unreal State is an immersive walking performance through the city, guided by an app on our phones. Participants navigate a digital map overlaid onto actual city locations, transforming the urban environment into both stage and game board.
The piece invites participants to move through streets, buildings, thresholds, and public spaces while listening to a voice that gradually reveals the existence of another territory: an unreal state layered on top of the world we already know and inhabit. This digital layer does not replace the city but reorganizes how we perceive, navigate, desire within, and make decisions through it.
Between speculative fiction, urban walk, and intimate audio guide, Unreal State explores the contradictory role of surveyance and digital technologies in contemporary life: systems and devices that connect us while isolating us, guide us while tracking us, and offer us agency while quietly shaping the conditions under which our choices are made. What begins as a personal journey through the city becomes a critical reflection on the systems that increasingly mediate everyday life, democratic institutions, collective imagination, and the fragile distinction between participation and control.
Can we get back our agency over our decisions while we are gradually exposed to the system’s closed nature?
The performance does not ask the audience to escape into the screen. Instead, it uses the screen to send them back into the city: to look at its surfaces, its infrastructures, its strangers, and the invisible systems that operate above, beneath, and around them.
Please bring a fully charged smartphone, headphones or earphones, make sure that you have a mobile internet access and you can enable GPS/location services and browser permissions, and we recommend wearing comfortable footwear suitable for walking through the city.
Accompanying program:
The participatory walking performance will be accompanied by an English-language lecture and discussion by Marcos Kripocivach on the 3rd September 2026.
More infos HERE
Credits:
Direction and script: Marcos Krivocapich (AR / ES)
Programming and dramaturgy: León Siewert-Langhoff (DE)
Sound design: Carola Zelaschi (AR)
International production and curatorship: Corrado Russo
Executive production: Centro culturale mobilità delle arti, with the support of Iberescena
Times and locations:
- Lecture and discussion:
Time: 6.30PM, 3rd September 2026
Location: Gólya rooftop, 1089 Budapest, Orczy út 46-48.
Language: English
The lecture is free of charge, but registration is required.
Registration: HERE
- Performance / participatory walk:
Time: 6PM, 7th September 2026
Meeting point: 1088 Budapest, Gutenberg tér
Length of the performance: 60-80 minutes
Language: English, Hungarian
The performance is a ticketed program.
Ticket purchase: HERE
Supported by:
A production within the framework of IN SITU Platform 2025-28 with the support of the Creative Europe Programme of the European Commission.
Special thanks for the locations: Dean’s Home Budapest, Gólya