#faultline #gap.png #beep
Beeps and alphanumeric reports. Table-turning scéance on a geophilosophical plane. Point by point... Meanwhile, a projection appears. Like an occult photo album that would like to accompany the onlooker through the faultlines of the spectacle - an interrupted catastrophe, display of image-breakers, Namazu's back, unacceptable portraits, receding capital. Etc. As far as the eye can see.
In a 50-minute performance-installation's 'shining with absence and negativity' disposition is brought to life by an unattainable stage image in a composition of various fractured, cracked signs, constantly moderating the speculation growing in the viewer.
RAW Spell was created from the performances of the duo's internationally funded research-based art project (RAW Quakes; RAW) in 2024.
This event is part of the 5th edition of NEXTFEST, Trafó's very own mini festival, with which it celebrates new forms, emerging artists and the joy of experimentation each year. Please find the full festival programme here, most events are English-friendly!
Haibo Illés (1998) is a puppet and set designer, and Richárd Melykó (1994) is an intermedia artist. They are a Budapest-based interdisciplinary artist duo experimenting with the temporal extension of performance, while responding to the exhaustion of imagination with scenic poeticism. Since 2020, they have been exploring the weak points of the spectacle with their performative tools, experimenting with artistic trends such as relational aesthetics, choreopolitics, or anthropocene critical hydrofeminism. Currently, their art-based research is detecting the melancholic intersection of realist magic and agrarian magic. Their practice is characterised by a fusion of performance-installation and performatively 'receding' physical and digital materials, which they embrace as an ongoing test of courage in the 'failure of presence'.
Haibo Illés and Richárd Melykó are active internationally and have presented their work at A4 - Association for Contemporary Culture in Bratislava, CO.LABS in Brno, HELLERAU - Europäisches Zentrum der Künste in Dresden, Alfred ve dvoře and Palác Akropolis in Prague, and participated at the 3rd International Forum of Performance Art in Drama, among many other art venues in Budapest.
Concept, performed by: Haibo Illés & Richárd Melykó
Dramaturg: Ádám Czirák
Special thanks to: Zsuzsa Berecz
Cover photo: Laura Virág Szekeres
A4 - Associations for Contemporary Culture, HELLERAU - European Centre for the Arts, Goethe-Institut Budapest, Visegrad Fund, Workshop Foundation
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Goethe Intézet |
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Műhely Alapítvány |
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Visegrad Fund |
