Lecture workshop / free school only in Hungarian.

How can we form part of a community even if the others are strangers? From January to May interdisciplinary artist Dávid Somló invites us to a five-session free school: a participatory research, or as he calls it ‘lecture workshop’ that explores the nature of ritual in our everyday lives. In the second part of the series, we will examine and experience rituals of self-help and self-development, boredom challenges, and forms togetherness based on shared attention. The sessions can be visited indidvidually, but the free school can also be followed as a whole.

In the second session, ritual togetherness appears not as a means, but as an end in itself—as non-productive time: a practice that temporarily suspends the logic of performance, usefulness, and self-optimization. In this sense, the ritual is not a solution, but a subtle form of resistance to the often invisible constraints of capitalism.

For the second session, Dávid Somló has invited András Cseh and Csilla File as guests, who playfully explore the possibilities of reviving withering (proto-)human capacities within the framework of their (pseudo-)movement Offline Reserve.

About the series:
How do rituals create a community without communication? What happens to our attention and perception of time when we no longer have methods for pausing or closure?

In his five-session lecture workshop series, Dávid Somló explores what remains—or what is missing—from community rituals in the accelerated everyday life of contemporary society. The artistic and theoretical starting point for this shared reflection is Byung-Chul Han's book The Disappearance of Rituals, while its practical form is inspired by elements of Somló's participatory art practice. The sessions unfold between thought-provoking theoretical discussions, participatory exercises, and impulses from invited guests (artists, researchers and others) on the topic.