VÍZ and Tekla Valy: »I WILL NOT DISAPPEAR IN YOUR FEARS«

Drawing on Székely-Hungarian and Finnish folklore traditions, artists Tekla Valy and VÍZ (Réka Csiszér) create three shifting environments in which memory, myth, and subconscious impulses collide. Forests become living beings, houses begin to remember, and children’s games transform into ritual acts suspended between comfort and danger.

Inspired by horror cinema, oral traditions, and dream logic, the work unfolds as an interdisciplinary performance combining sound, moving image, and theatrical installation. Within a freely navigable performance space, voices emerge like transmissions from other realities, bodies appear and disappear through darkness and mist, and fragmented images blur the boundaries between presence and illusion.

This evening approaches folklore not as an object of nostalgia or historical reconstruction, but as a living psychological system – a space in which collective fears, desires, and inherited instincts continue to manifest in contemporary life. Hovering somewhere between opera, ritual, hallucination, and cinematic dreamscape, the performance creates an immersive sensory world where all realities blur and flow into one another.