16 April – 15 May / 6 June, 2026 Budapest
InterFÉSZEK // Nursery of Interfaces is a collective artistic research project exploring forms of connection and contact. Its point of departure is that human beings are defined by their relationships: by the ways they connect to themselves, to others, and to the more-than-human — material, technological and natural — world. Initiated jointly by Petra Ardai (SPACE) and Ágnes Karolina Bakk (MOME), the project invites artists working at the intersections of performance, visual art, media, design and theory, and who are engaged with experiential reception and immersivity ( embodies, interactive, situated, sensory…. storytelling). The project’s base and partner is ADAPTÉR, a creative technology knowledge hub.
The participating artists create performative situations and mini-installations — interface sketches — that are activated through the presence of the audience and make the experience of connection itself tangible. A key aim of InterFÉSZEK is encounter, experimentation and learning from one another.
During the residency, the initiators, mentors and invited experts offer insight into their research topics, findings and artistic practices through a series of impulse days. Zsófia Lévai’s workshop, Project Kaláka, creates interactive sculptures through the participatory tools of “social crafting.” Ágnes Karolina Bakk’s research-based artistic practice maps the relationship between body, perception and technology, while investigating the notion of the interface. Through her project The Last Human, which examines the threshold conditions of human existence, Petra Ardai introduces her performance practice and invites participants to recalibrate their perception, as well as their relationship to time and to the human and more-than-human worlds.
Beáta Sosity works with the bodily dimensions of perception and the possibilities of inclusivity through the concepts of somaesthetics and accessibility. Zsuzsa Berecz and Zsolt Benedek offer insight into community-based and urban artistic practices developed under the umbrella of Internép, while museum educator Ildikó Schopp introduces participants to the borderland between art and representation through relational power dynamics in a guided tour of Albert-László Barabási’s exhibition From Formula to Image | The Art of Dataism. On the impulse day dedicated to more-than-human perspectives, Dr. István Parádi, assistant professor at the Department of Plant Physiology and Molecular Plant Biology, Faculty of Science, ELTE, introduces participants to the world of plant and ecological relational systems.
The outcomes of the research — the participants’ interface sketches, or prototypes — will be presented in an interactive pop-up exhibition at Adaptér between 9 and 15 May, and again on 6 June InterFÉSZEK Józsefvárosi kirepülés – Adaptér on the Move, as part of the Nyitva Festival.
The four-week residency programme is initiated by SPACE, and based at Adaptér, an urban laboratory. The facilitators and mentors of the process are Petra Ardai (theatre-maker and artistic director of SPACE), Ágnes Karolina Bakk (researcher at the MOME Future Care Lab) and Lévai Zsófia (interface artist and researcher). The project is supported by Fonds Podiumkunsten.
Participants:
Rita Eperjesi / gergő d. farkas / Luca Hidegkuti Kardos / Boldizsár Hordós
Maja Juhász + Luca Kovács / Bálint János Kiss / Bálint Ligeti / Zsófia Móró /
Beáta Pántya / Dániel Szapu
Contributors / Crew:
Bence Bodó / Adaptér, Program Organizer
Judit Böröcz / Curator
Luca Kövécs / Creative Producer
Sophie Leferink / Business and Artistic Policy SPACE
Zsófia Mihály-Geresdi / Graphic Designer
Orsolya Fodor / Freelance Theater Producer – test audience
Szandi Vass / Dramaturg, Theater Director – artistic documentation of the project
Supported by Fonds Podiumkunsten
Programme of the Impulse Days
17 April 2026 – Impulse Day 1
The joint opening day led by Ágnes Karolina Bakk, Zsófia Lévai and Petra Ardai offers a theoretical and practical introduction to experience, analogue and digital immersivity — and the transitions between them — as well as to questions of interface and performativity. At Feneketlen Lake, Petra Ardai introduces her performance practice through The Last Human, inviting participants to recalibrate their perception and their relationship to time, and to the human and more-than-human worlds.
20 April 2026 – Kaláka Workshop
In Zsófia Lévai’s Project Kaláka workshop, we create interactive sculptures (interfaces) through the participatory tools of “social crafting.” Shared making and experiential work.
22 April 2026 – Impulse Day 2
In the morning, a meet-and-greet with MOME interaction design students led by Adaptér; in the afternoon, the programme continues at Műcsarnok/ Contemporary Art Hall, where museum educator Ildikó Schopp’s workshop, combined with a guided tour of Albert-László Barabási’s exhibition From Formula to Image | The Art of Dataism, explores the borderlands of art and representation, as well as the formation of different relational systems.
24 April 2026 – Impulse Day 3
Internép Lab with Zsuzsa Berecz and Zsolt Benedek, connected to the ongoing processes on Népszínház Street. Public space as interface. A shared reflection on the possibilities of connection at the intersection of participatory art and activism; insight into Internép’s urban and community-based practice.
27 April 2026 – Impulse Day 4
Beáta Sosity’s lecture and workshop on the relationship between body and object, designing with the body, somaesthetics and questions of accessibility, complemented by short project presentations.
4 May 2026 – Impulse Day 5
Opening toward more-than-human perspectives. Dr. István Parádi, assistant professor at the Department of Plant Physiology and Molecular Plant Biology, ELTE Faculty of Science, speaks about above-ground and below-ground plant and ecological relational systems, as well as mechanisms of plant communication and defence.
What the Nursery of Interfaces produces (this edition, and beyond) This project is a beginning of a trajectory and mission. SPACE works towards new presentations and a sustainable learning and exchange format between tech and arts, between performance artist, visual artists, (inter)media artists and creative art -tech innovators—a repeatable pop-up / masterclass-to-showcase trajectory, in search of a shared vocabulary on reframing ‘immersivity’, and “the how is the what.”
