I know Peti and Ricsi(Péter Mendel and Richárd Melykó) from the Freeszfe Association’s “Theater and Performance” department. I had the opportunity to admire both of their work at the 2023 Tokyo Sunrise Festival. “We would like to draw our dear audience’s attention” and “Massa Orbit” were both excellent, so I was very pleased when they asked me to create the visuals for their performance titled “MEME,” which was presented at the Under500 festival. The piece, not surprisingly, was about memes.
Nowadays, I tend to return to Trafó every year or so. This year, I was asked to do the visual for the Thury siblings’ play „Public Dangerous Workers”. A resounding success at the end of a long rehearsal process 🙂 So for the time being, we’ll keep on playing.
For almost a year, the creators and participants of the performance have been reflecting together on the relationship between work and leisure, the burdens and beauties of leisure, vulnerability, constraints, self-exploitation and burnout.
Drawing on the experiences of the research process and on archival material from the 1920s and ’20s, this presentation explores life situations in which the boundaries between leisure and work, work and private life are increasingly blurred, and which are so similarly different as to be worth addressing in community.