This performance 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.
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.
Creators: Bíborka Béres (as facilitator), Jana Ambrózová, Jeries AbuJaber, Csilla Bartus, Magdalena Franczak, Kasha Potrohosh, Maciej Polynko, Yu En-Ping
Coordination: Sanna Bo
Graphic design: Dániel Kophelyi
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.