For the first time, the two creative duos Haibo Illés – Richárd Melykó and Maja Juhász – Luca Kovács collaborate on a new performance that maps the structures and tendencies of the Hungarian sex industry, and examines its contradictory relationship to labor. Drawing on shared fieldwork, they reflect on the experiences, internal conflicts, and ethical dilemmas they encountered, while actively confronting their differing perspectives.

“We are shaking the supporting structures of Hungarian sexual hegemony. Piece by piece, we dismantle them. With our bare hands, we create a documentary performance — because energetic performers are desirable labor, and their instincts are highly productive!

(From this point on, however, we are no longer entirely sure whether creating this research-based performance was truly our own choice. Just as we cannot be certain whether an apparently autonomous worker in the Hungarian sex industry today can genuinely act out of free will, or whether they, too, merely reinforce the patriarchal — more precisely, paternal — economy of pleasure.)

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The performance emerges from the encounter and fusion of two distinct artistic practices. While Maja Juhász and Luca Kovács, creators of the mostakkor performance series, are known for their honesty and humor, emphasizing active fieldwork and personal engagement, Haibo Illés and Richárd Melykó are characterized by performative research and sharp social and cultural-political observations rooted in research-based art.