The very first PLACCC Festival was organised in 2008 with the aim to popularize site-specific art in Hungary. Initially the participating artists were all coming from abroad, but since then more and more Hungarian artists present their groundbreaking public art work within the frame of the festival. This year, between 21st and 30th September 2012, the creative teams of the 6th PLACCC await the audience, yet again, with surprising, throught-provoking and enternatining acts at various points of Budapest. The motto of the 2012 event is: image, sound, design, game.

The festival program boasts a variety of genres. The Italian creative team, ZimmerFrei, shot an audio-visual city portrait during the summer, involving the local residents. The result is a site-specific film under the title of Temporary 8th, which will be screened at an ad hoc cinema set up in one of the community gardens of the 8th District.

Another project that promises to be hugely popular, is a location based urban game developed for smart phones by TOTEM (D/F), Fraunhofer FIT (D) and Michael Straeubig (D). With the help of GPS the players of Tidy City will have to solve riddles within the 9th District in a game that will help them explore or re-explore the hidden beauties and small secrets of the area.

The Dutch designers of ReFunc, Gergely Kukucska, the leader of the Hungarian D1618 Studio and eco-designer Juli Laczkó, will create experimental constructions out of garbage material at this year’s PLACCC. They give the used objects new functions in the spirit of environmetal awareness.

Members of the Hungarian Szövetség ’39 Association of Artists, the Finnish Crucible Studio, the British Ravensbourne and Stream Arts experiment with urban sounds and noises within the international collaboration entitled City Noises. Beyond being occasionally surprising yet entertaining at the same time, all four projects deal with social issues, such as homophobia, stereotypes, alienation and the lack of communication.

Fine artists Balázs Antal, László Hatházi and Zoltán Fodor celebrate an almost forgotten public sculpture and its creator in Váli Street, in the 11th District. They are creating a huge wall painting with the seldom used sgrafitto technique, and for the duration of PLACCC Festival they will transform the neglected garden between two residential blocks into a living, communal space.

The installation by the Czech H3T Architekti will certainly cause some sensation at this year’s festival. The architects will build a public sauna at one of the busiest points in Budapest, which the festival audience will be free to use.

PLACCC Festival – 21-30 September 2012, Budapest, different locations
PLACCC – Art That Takes You by Surprise

Source and details: placcc.hu

Ticket info

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You can buy your ticket at festival venues 30 minutes before the start of the programme.
Festival pass (to be purchased in advance): 2500 huf / discount price 2000 huf
Valid for the programmes Temporarary 8th by Zimmer Frei, Tidy City by TOTEM (D/F) - Fraunhofer FIT (D) - Michael Straeubig (D) and Sauna by H3T Architekti.