Part of Trafó’s transdisciplinary focus Artificial Realities / Daily programme / Full focus programme

Artists: conceptual drive-by / panka154 / borsos lorinc af te r / trevoga / twilight ghoul

Curator: Áron Lődi

On this evening, Trafó launches its new transdisciplinary party series, RESIDENCY, where each time a guest curator — who may be a DJ, producer, light or sound designer, visual artist, choreographer — shapes the unique atmosphere through a liberating encounter between sound, space, and bodies. Trafó is the fixed point, everything else is variable and in motion.

“As algorithmic control, surveillance regimes, and corrupt tech companies infiltrate every aspect of our lives, both corporeal and virtual, the need for new emancipatory narratives is undeniable. Rather than dissecting systems through research or data, Refusal Model presents a night of collective disobedience, rendering the logics of control as something felt rather than explained. Through distorted sounds, unstable choreographies, and flickering visuals, the invited artists trace the symptoms of living under algorithmic rule: the confusion between freedom and automation, intimacy and exposure, signal and noise.
In Hungary’s increasingly surveilled and centralized technofascist landscape, where state power and corporate networks converge, the event proposes sensorial and poetic counter-worlds at the intersection of visual arts, contemporary dance, and rave culture. These performances do not illustrate resistance; they enact it. Refusal Model at Trafó Klub invites audiences to inhabit this unstable space of interference, where each gesture becomes a glitch, a refusal to comply with the metrics of visibility and efficiency that define our era.” (Áron Lődi)