Residency and tour 2025
HOLY WEEK
A week-long residency of eight international creators and a participatory performance tour through four countries on Central European Easter traditions.
HOLY WEEK is a project of PAIKKA, a Budapest-based platform for impermanent collectives working at the intersection of art and science, run by the I.T.E.M. Foundation.
In 2025 PAIKKA hosted eight creators – ethnomusicologists, performers and artists from Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Palestine, Ukraine and Taiwan – to research pagan, religious and secular traditions related to Easter in Central Europe.
From a week-long residency in Hungary emerged a participatory, multisensory performance, rooted in the seasonal energy of spring and the impulse to renew. Over the Easter holidays it toured four countries, conjuring a temporary community through collective actions: spring cleaning, shared meals, sound-making and tactile encounters.
Tour
- 13 April 2025 – DDK Węglin, Lublin (PL)
- 15 April 2025 – Terén, Brno (CZ)
- 16 April 2025 – LOM, Bratislava (SK)
- 17 April 2025 – 1111, Budapest (HU)
Funding
The project is co-financed by the governments of Czechia, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia through Visegrad Grants from the International Visegrad Fund. The mission of the fund is to advance ideas for sustainable regional cooperation in Central Europe.