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SENSE INTO NONSENSE
Poems of the City and Consumption

Projects 2024 | Round 14
 
Coproduction partners: Orsolya Török-Illyés (Hungary), Boglárka Börcsök (Germany), Andreas Bolm (Germany)

SENSE INTO NONSENSE | „Where is the f*ing commercial?“, 8th district, Budapest

„Where is the f*ing commercial?“, 8th district, Budapest | © Boglárka Börcsök

SENSE INTO NONSENSE | Underpass at Western Station, Budapest

Underpass at Western Station, Budapest | © Boglárka Börcsök

SENSE INTO NONSENSE | Revaler Straße, Berlin

Revaler Straße, Berlin | © Boglárka Börcsök

SENSE INTO NONSENSE (Poems of the City and Consumption) is a site-specific performance walk specially created for public spaces in Budapest. Inspired by the work of German Dada artist Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven (1874-1927), the project seeks to connect different temporalities and histories. It reflects on urban realities to critically investigate the current state of affairs in Hungary in terms of artistic freedom, consumerism and social exclusion within the neoliberal city.

Through a research-based process, the Hungarian-German transdisciplinary team—comprising actress Orsolya Török-Illyés , choreographer Boglárka Börcsök, and documentary filmmaker Andreas Bolm—aims to reintroduce Baroness’s rebellious art and her public appearances as an agent provocateur through artistic strategies of reenactment and urban interventions.

For the first time, the poems of the Baroness are being adapted and translated into Hungarian.

Projects 2024 | Round 14

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