more about placcc

PLACCC Festival was launched in 2008 with the aim of introducing the genre of site-specific performance to the Hungarian public and to inspire local artists to create site-specifically.

Artists draw inspiration from well-known sites and objects of our everyday urban existence in order to transform them and re-define them in a refreshing way. They use the city as a stage and invite us to re-discover it with them.

In the first edition of PLACCC in 2008 spectators ‚learned to fly‘ in the courtyard of the former Socialist Party Academy, were taken on an exciting bicycle journey into their inner realm of thoughts and memories and joined the search for love in a shopping mall.

2009 brought other forms of artistic thrills: an opera in slang in the underground labyrinth of a cave, concrete mixer trucks were transformed into giant urban disco balls, derelict basement doors were re-decorated in vibrant colors and algae was used to clean smog-infused city air, while the passers-by themselves could participate in building ‚community couches‘ from recycled material in one of the popular squares of Budapest.

In 2010 PLACCC is back to show that the city is more than a setting or a stage, it is an inexhaustable source of inspiration and play.

If you are convinced that you know Pécs and the places that you pass by daily, PLACCC Festival is here to prove you wrong and invite you to look at the city with a fresh eye.

Come, re-discover and enjoy.