Marek Kundlák (1981) studied theatre dramaturgy and works across a wide spectrum of artistic expression – from writing librettos, texts, and translations to theatre dramaturgy and directing, performing, composing music for theatre, film, and concert settings, playing experimental instruments, as well as cooking, gardening, and woodworking. He has created and performed in Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Austria, Germany, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, Hungary, and Italy. He has worked with the Opera of the Slovak National Theatre and is currently a music dramaturg for spoken-word programming at Slovak Radio.

The title Facto(h)ry plays on words and can be loosely translated as games in a factory. The factory lies deserted, barely recalling the cacophony of sounds that once brought it to life day after day. Machines, people, weather – everything once resonated within like a symphony. What could be more adventurous for youngsters than to explore an old factory and discover how it sounds? The children bring along instruments of their own making, built from construction materials; just as they’ve given new life to plastic pipes or metal bins, they now attempt to reawaken the remnants of the inventory and the long-abandoned spaces of the factory.

The concert forms part of the Tuning the City project, through which the ooo collective collaborates with elementary art schools in the Trenčín region in 2025–2026 to foster creative approaches to music education. Together with the pupils of these schools, they are preparing a large-scale participatory sound performance to be held on 22 May 2026 in Trenčín.