Aura
by Hollow
2023
Hollow embodies the shared hallucinations of choreographer Viktor Szeri, game designer/media artist Tamás Páll and curator Gyula Muskovics. The three artists have been creating immersive performances, experiences and installations in theaters and galleries in Budapest and other European cities since 2018.
In Aura, the artists explore the relationship between theatre and reality, as well as the world-making potential of shared imagination. The performance also raises the question of what can emerge within a group beyond the sum of its individual members. As in Hollow’s previous works, audience members do not remain outsiders but are drawn into an imaginary journey, where story, landscapes, and characters take shape through poetic language, media art, contemporary dance, role-play, experimental electronic music, and singing.
The performance grew out of an international research project in which the artists investigated the ways grassroots communities in Eastern Europe function and create shared worlds. Throughout this intuitive, experience-based process, they experimented with the creation of a collective body and shared consciousness, while also seeking to reconsider and reinterpret the dynamics of their own group.
Created by Gyula Muskovics, Tamás Páll, Viktor Szeri
Music: Thea Soti, Yinna
Performers: Márton Glaser, Imola Kacsó, Gyula Muskovics, Tamás Páll, Viktor Szeri, Thea Soti, Yinna, Imre Vass
Light design: Kata Dézsi
Production partner: Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Katlan Group Public Benefit Association
Performed at Trafó House of Contemporary Arts, Budapest; radialsystem, Berlin
Special thanks to: János Borsos, Fanni Hegedűs, Bence Kálóczi, Marcell Kálóczi
