Summit
by Hollow
ongoing since 2019
Summit is an immersive performance that speculates on dark future scenarios. It foreshadows the obscure conditions of a planetary event that will radically alter life on Earth. Resembling a funeral where melancholia goes viral, it invites the audience on a journey to a land of eternal mourning. As a way of confronting our fear of the unknown, Summit offers an acceleration toward the inevitable end.
In this piece, Hollow (Viktor Szeri, Tamás Páll, and Gyula Muskovics) employs multiple apparatuses to stage a seemingly dystopian reality, where drops of unease dissolve into a stream of hazy and dark fantasies. The group combines dance and role-play with sound and augmented reality to create a gateway between the world of those present and the struggling bodies that inhabit the fictional environment of Summit.
What can be learned from the wretched? The performance leaves this question open. Rather than reaching an imagined end where answers might be found, it immerses the audience in an endless loop of speculation about what is yet to come. Paralyzed by the anticipation of the “Future Event,” the gathered audience is confronted with the contours of a place to which the dominant regimes of the present might ultimately lead us.
Created and performed by Gyula Muskovics, Tamás Páll, and Viktor Szeri
Guest performers: Darina Alster, Kaca Olivova, Kata Kállai, Ramóna Takács, Jenna Jalonen, Réka Oberfrank, Fanni Hegedűs, Júlia Vavra
Music composition and live performance: Tamás Marquetant and András Molnár
Performed at Donaufestival, Krems, AT; Sandbox Festival @MŰTŐ, Budapest, HU; Placcc Dance, Budapest, HU; MeetFactory, Prague, CZ; Y: Possible Futures, Divadlo X10, Prague, CZ; Ubik Eklektik Festival, Eger, HU; Under500 Festival, Budapest, HU; Public spaces of Budapest
Supported by the International Visegrad Fund, MeetFactory, Creative Europe - i-Portunus
