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Part of Trafó’s transdisciplinary focus Artificial Realities / Daily programme / Full focus programme
A dark room is always a place for becoming.
Hollow embodies the shared hallucinations of dancer-choreographer Viktor Szeri, media artist Tamás Páll, and curator and writer Gyula Muskovics. The three artists have been creating immersive performances, experiences and installations in theaters and galleries in Budapest and across Europe since 2018, merging the methodologies of contemporary dance with live-action role play, cutting-edge technology, and media art.
In Baby, they reflect on the art collective they formed seven years ago. At the center of the piece is their virtual offspring, inviting the audience on a journey to Phoenix, an imaginary darkroom where Hollow was born. In other words, Baby takes us back to the very first moment, where everything is still formless and can become anything. It is the latest in a series of projects that view art-making as world-making. In addition to revealing the complex universe of Hollow, the performance imagines how a work of art might speak to its creators if it could.
A dark room is always a place for becoming.
Hollow embodies the shared hallucinations of dancer-choreographer Viktor Szeri, media artist Tamás Páll, and curator and writer Gyula Muskovics. The three artists have been creating immersive performances, experiences and installations in theaters and galleries in Budapest and across Europe since 2018, merging the methodologies of contemporary dance with live-action role play, cutting-edge technology, and media art.
In Baby, they reflect on the art collective they formed seven years ago. At the center of the piece is their virtual offspring, inviting the audience on a journey to Phoenix, an imaginary darkroom where Hollow was born. In other words, Baby takes us back to the very first moment, where everything is still formless and can become anything. It is the latest in a series of projects that view art-making as world-making. In addition to revealing the complex universe of Hollow, the performance imagines how a work of art might speak to its creators if it could.
Created and performed by: Viktor Szeri, Tamás Páll, Gyula Muskovics
Contributors: Creamcore Cakes, Klaudia Januško, András Molnár, Réka Oberfrank, Ramóna Takács
Sound: Mate Elod Janky (featuring music by András Molnár and Tamás Marquetant)
Voiceover: Tanya Marquardt
Production partners: Magnum Production, Katlan Group
Supported by: MODINA, KIM, Creative Europe program of the European Union
This event is part of MODINA (Movement, Digital Intelligence and Interactive Audience), an international project, which pairs creative technologists with choreographers to work together on projects with a focus on developing and integrating technology in dance practice, particularly computational creativity and/or audience interaction, with an emphasis on exploring artificial intelligence (AI). www.modina.eu
MODINA is co-funded by the Creative Europe programme of the European Union.
The opinions and statements expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the official position of the European Union or the European Education and Culture.
Hollow-interjú. (Recorder)
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Creative Europe Programme HU |
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KIM – Kulturális és Innovációs Minisztérium |
“The charged energy of community and the presence of cold darkness concurrently linger around the complex artworks of Hollow. (...) The collective aims to create liminal spaces between real life and the digital realm, present and future. They do so by balancing on the threshold of theories of dystopia and utopia. Playfully creative yet sublime performance pieces emerge from an ever-changing dynamic of such dichotomy.”