What happens to poetry when it is set free? In the second episode of the Poetry Performance series at Trafó, the creative laboratory turns its attention to Kamilla Vida’s recently published Demographic Summit. This time, poetry encounters historical re-enactment, theatre and current political urgencies.

On 11 April 2026, the Day of Hungarian Poetry, a new volume of poetry was published. The following day, parliamentary elections took place in Hungary. The proximity of these two dates provides a particular frame for the poems in Demographic Summit, which explore, among other things, the legacy of the 1989 regime change, the unresolved questions of historical justice, and the contradictions of Hungary after the socialist era.

For the generation born after 1989, the first regime change is already history – a history whose consequences have shaped the world they grew up in. Yet the political turning point of 2026 is something they experience as their own. What does it mean to be born after a regime change, only to become part of another one as an adult? How do we confront the questions left unanswered by previous generations? Is it possible to deliver justice decades later, and what, in fact, do we expect from historical reckoning?

Two Wolves Live Within Me is at once an act of remembering and a call to remember. It revisits the stories of the 1989 regime change, while looking back at them from the perspective of the present and the experience of the transformations unfolding in 2026. At the same time, it explores what it means today to be a young adult, a woman, an intellectual and an artist in Hungary. How can one create, think and exist in a country where historical and political changes repeatedly become deeply personal questions?

Launched in 2025 with Noémi Noya Szántusz’s performance based on István Kemény’s Lovag Dulcinea, Poetry Performance returns in autumn 2026, transforming Trafó’s Cabin into a performance laboratory that brings together artists from different fields to create something new and unrepeatable.