7:30 p.m. Trevoga (NL): 11 3 8 7 [Rebody] - dance, performance - Merlin
9:00 p.m. Opening speech: Júlia Keserű / Jan Rozman (SI/DE): (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ screamage - multimedia performance - Trafó Main Hall
10:30 p.m. RESIDENCY - guest curator: Áron Lődi, participating artists: conceptual drive-by / panka154 / borsos lorinc af te r / trevoga / twilight ghoul - transdisciplinary party series - Club

On the opening night of Trafó’s Artificial Realities focus, we start out in a dystopian shopping mall and end up in a strange DIY workshop, where pieces of the online world lie scattered around. We travel not only in a sensory sense, but also physically, as we move between two different venues—Merlin and Trafó—during the evening.

The program opens at Merlin with Trevoga, a young Amsterdam-based collective and the Hungarian debut of their internationally touring performance 11 3 8 7 [Rebody]. Reminiscent of an AI-generated TV show or an eerie dream, three avatar-like figures draw us into an alternative, yet strangely familiar universe. Inspired by the lavish fantasies we fabricate online and their conflicting relation with the increasingly hostile reality around us, Trevoga invites us into their world of bold artistic experimentation and dystopian imagination. 

From here, we move on to Trafó, where Júlia Keserű, activist and researcher working at the intersection of technology and justice, will hold the focus’ opening speech. This is followed by (╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻ screamage, a multimedia performance by Slovenian choreographer Jan Rozman, who blurs the boundaries between physical and virtual reality. Working with the absurdity of meme culture and cutting-edge humor, he translates the logic of the Internet into physical form and tangible action. Trafó’s main stage is transformed into a subversive DIY workshop where Rozman and his accomplices take the digital world apart piece by piece.

The evening comes to a close with Trafó's new transdisciplinary party series RESIDENCY, with visual artist Áron Lődi as its first guest curator. Participating artists are conceptual drive-by / panka154 / borsos lorinc af te r / trevoga / twilight ghoul.