The Manual is conceived as a haunting dreamscape unfolding in three acts—Paradise, Purgatory, and Inferno—through an accessible yet provocative metaphor, the performance critically examines our fragile human condition in an era marked by polarization and escalating conflicts, exposing how human...
Invisible is a game that takes you into public spaces to participate in a shared, collective experience. In a small group of 8 to 12 people, and starting from a short score and account of a past experience, you carry...
In the harshest and most difficult environments, living beings develop the ability to adapt, evolving and adjusting their defences to survive as long as possible. Among them is the cactus, which grows in the desert wrapped in a layer of...
Two performers armed with—or trapped in—a single scene. A customer orders a drink from a waiter, and then things go awry. Played again and again, the scene starts spinning out of control. Nightmarish spiral or grotesque farce? Roles flip back...
Composer Rozi Mákó and media artist Bori Mákó have been working together since 2018. Based in Budapest, the sister duo’s work includes 360-degree projections, concerts, video installations and digital painting animations. Their reflective imagery and soundscapes invite audiences into a...
The D-CAF Festival has historically presented performances in public spaces until the late 2010s, when increasing difficulties made it no longer feasible. Public space, however, remains a vital setting to bring art into everyday life and society. As part of...
This workshop aims to explore cultural projects and methods capable of building social connections and highlight interdependencies between research, creation, production, and audience experience. Participants will be introduced to various research-theatre creation methods developed by Ishyo Arts Centre and its...
What does writing for the performing arts involve? Collecting memories, rephrasing nightmares, conducting interviews, transcribing rehearsals? Working with archive material, descriptions of photographs, lists, lyrics, manifestos and speeches? A real or imagined life, a multitude or a single point of...
Acinetobacter baumannii is one of the most antibiotic resistant pathogens, estimated to kill between 50,000 and 100,000 people annually. This interactive work draws on biography and science to create a speculative but possible near future, exploring the causes and dangers...