“In H. Bergson’s view, the body is a medium: “It is then the place of passage of the movements received and thrown back, a hyphen, a connecting link between the things which act upon me and the things upon which I act, - the seat, in a word, of the sensori-motor phenomena."*

On 16th June 2021, Trafó House of Contemporary Arts opens its doors with an extraordinary three-day event.

As the lockdown ends, Trafó’s redesigned spaces finally reopen to visitors, who will be welcomed by an audiovisual experience that can be shaped in real time by the movement of everyone present. As a result, a so-called “post-representative space” (N. Sternfeld) comes into being, where we unwittingly become participants in a game and actors in an event. Driven by her programmed formulae, Villő Turcsány’s pendulum sculptures across the space move to peculiar rhythms. 

The dramaturgy of forming space allows our biological and intellectual essence to be visualised via abstract forms. The pulse rates of our bodies, our systolic and diastolic pulsations constitute the first of multiple “voices”. Walking down the narrow path of a corridor, we slowly enter a polyphonic system created by pendulum motions in the theatre space, accompanied by the rhythm of our movements converted into signals. The rhythm pattern of the impulses created by the pendulums as well as the abstract and continuously moving signal structures of individual movements visualised as dots or lines will appear simultaneously on an enormous screen. The random presence of the viewer thus generates signals in the space, which will be synthesized and converted into “motion pictures” by a software-based system.