A participatory, multisensory performance series emerges from a week-long residency in Hungary, shaped by the shared practices of eight international creators. Rooted in the seasonal energy of spring and the impulse to renew, the piece blends ancestral memory, contemporary urgencies, and embodied gestures to form a living ritual.

The work is a traveling performance unfolding across four countries, where a temporary community is conjured through collective actions: spring cleaning, shared meals, sound-making, and tactile encounters. Rather than following a fixed narrative, the performance acts as a responsive organism—rhythmic, layered, and unpredictable. Dirt and cleanliness, winter and spring, tradition and transformation pulse alongside one another, neither resolved nor opposed.

This series is part of HOLY WEEK, a project initiated by PAIKKA, a Budapest-based platform for impermanent collectives working at the intersection of art and science. The project gathers creators from Slovakia, Czechia, Poland, Hungary, Palestine, Ukraine, and Taiwan in a collaborative reimagining of Eastern traditions through rituals ahead of the Easter season.

ARTISTS: Jana Ambrózová (SK), Jeries AbuJaber (PS), Csilla Bartus (HU), Magdalena Franczak (PL), Kasha Potrohosh (SK/UA), Maciej Polynko (PL), Yu En-Ping (TW)

Facilitator:
Bíborka Béres

Co-ordination:
Sanna Bo

Graphic design:
Dániel Kophelyi

Initiated by:
PAIKKA

Partners:
Združenie ooo
Cross Attic
DDK “Weglin”

The project is co-financed by the Governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.