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PLACCC Csepel

The 7th PLACCC Festival will be organized between 30 May and 4 June 2013 in Csepel!

This well-established event aims to present and promote site specific and public art works and projects, which are removed from the usual art-related spaces. PLACCC festival, a favorite with its audience, and highly acclaimed by the profession both nationally and internationally, transforms public urban locations into artistic space. We chose the district of Csepel as this year's focus (a district of Budapest located on an island in the Danube, famous for its former metal works and the workers' housing estates). We invite our adventurous audience and the residents to join us on an unusual voyage of discovery and a journey through time. Actors, visual artists, architects and game designers will use the architectural, historical, social and cultural potentials of the area as inspiration for their exciting new work.

The (pseudo)documentary theatre production of the Dutch-Hungarian company Space, on the grounds of the former Csepel Works, will take the audience back in time to the 1970s with the help of earphones and iPads. The coproduction of Artus and Stereo Act will have the audience sat on a bus, transforming them into urban tourists of destiny as they join a theatrical journey among real-life settings. The young architects of Studio Nomad will conjure up an oasis in the middle of the Csepel housing estate, the team of Budapest Wanderers will be organizing quiz games and competitions at various points of Csepel. And finally, in the building of the former Pipe Factory's management, the final year curator students of the University of Fine Art will organize an exhibition of works by young artists.

Between 30 May and 4 June Csepel is the place to be!

PLACCC 2012
Image, sound, design, game

Just a couple of weeks left till PLACCC 2012 Festival – which will be more colourful than ever.
The festival offers varied programmes this year: site-specific film, sound installations and urban game, up-cycling design and visual art projects.
Dates: 21-30 September 2012
Location: around the city.

Photo: Anna de Manincor

Preliminary programme:

ZimmerFrei (IT): Temporary Eighth (site-specific film)
Szövetség’39 (HU) - Crucible Studio (FI) - Ravensbourne & Stream (UK): City Noises (sound installations)
TOTEM(D/F) - Fraunhofer FIT (D) - Michael Straeubig (D): Tidy City (urban game)
ReFunc (NL): Garbage architecture (up-cycling design)
Balázs Antal – László Hatházi – Zoltán Fodor (HU): Fix Corner (visual art project and community programme in public space)
H3T Achitekti (CZ): Sauna (urban installation)

Season's Greetings!

PLACCC 2011 - Hidden Dimensions
Discover the hidden dimensions of Budapest at the 5th edition of PLACCC Festival!

From 23 September till 2 October local and international artists present cutting edge site-specific work in well-known public spaces and special locations around the city. The Brussels-based company CREW equips the public with video-goggles and takes us on an extraordinary quest to the South Pole, inviting us to explore our own minds during a multi-sensorial performance experience. The Invisible Playground collective from Berlin sets up a field office at Nyugati Square and transforms this bustling public space into an arena for site-specific urban games designed on the spot. The Austrian duo Matsune & Subal sells performance products in their Store in city centre, don’t miss a chance to make a good bargain. The visual arts programme of the festival draws attention to detail and challenges our "spatial blindness". We gain entry into one of the legendary Lotto Houses and can also map a nano invasion of urban details on the streets of Budapest.

Once again the artists invited by PLACCC transform our everyday urban experience and not only use the city as a stage and setting for their work, but also re-interpret often unnoticed urban details and objects.


Photo: Stefan Dewickere