Synaesthesia – Interdisciplinary Performance (II.)
The “Synaesthesia” interdisciplinary performance invites audiences to an evening of live painting, music, and poetry readings. At this second edition, visual artist Anka Arnóth will create the visual experience using an overhead projector, while the music selection will be provided by Balázs Pándi through jazz records. Complementing the performance, Ágoston Endrey-Nagy, Orsolya Fenyvesi, and Péter Závada will read from their poems.
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Synaesthesia — “a secondary sensation accompanying an actual perception of a different kind (e.g. seeing colors when hearing sounds)”; also “a poetic expression evoking this phenomenon,” such as velvet rustle or blood-red scream.
The Artists
Anka Arnóth graduated from the Painting Department of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 2025. In her artistic practice, the boundaries between figurative and non-figurative forms create space for associative interpretation. She works with charcoal, sand, acrylics, spray paint, and light-sensitive materials, exploring themes such as self-awareness, body consciousness, sexuality, and isolation. She draws inspiration from the vocabulary of gestural painting, as well as from the dynamics of music and dance. At this event, she will create live visuals in response to the readers’ texts using an overhead projector.
Balázs Pándi (Budapest, 1983) is a drummer, journalist, concert organizer, and collector. He is currently the drummer of Beton.Hofi, while also participating in numerous noise music, jazz, and free jazz projects. One distinctive branch of his art-collecting interest is the oeuvre of Dezső Tandori.
Readers
Péter Závada
(1982) — poet and playwright. He received his PhD in Aesthetics from Eötvös Loránd University in 2022 and has been teaching there ever since. His most recent poetry collection, Éngép, was published in 2025 by Jelenkor Kiadó. His plays have been staged by Örkény István Theatre, Katona József Theatre, and Trafó House of Contemporary Arts.
Orsolya Fenyvesi
Born in 1986, she studied art history at Eötvös Loránd University and currently works as a publishing editor while also translating poetry and children’s literature. She is co-owner of Két Hold Kiadó. One of her notable literary translations is Autobiography of Red by Anne Carson. She has published four poetry collections, most recently Mindig kezdetben (“Always in the Beginning”) in 2022. Her poems have appeared in German, English, Croatian, Serbian, Turkish, and Romanian, and she has participated in several international literary festivals. She is also the author of the children’s books Ősvarázserdő and the Miri series. In 2018 she received the Móricz Zsigmond Literary Scholarship, in 2021 the Junior Szépíró Prize from the Szépírók Társasága, and in 2024 she was awarded the Sziveri Prize. Her first novel, A minótaurosz és én (“The Minotaur and I”), was published in 2024, while her latest prose volume, Nem fogsz belehalni (“You Won’t Die From It”), appeared in 2025.
Ágoston Endrey-Nagy
Born in 2002 in Mór, he is a recipient of the Málik Roland Prize, literary editor of KULTer.hu, and a series editor for the Association of Young Writers. In 2025 he received the Ferencváros József Attila literary grant for his forthcoming first poetry collection, and in the same year won the professional grand prize of the Pestext competition. His writings have appeared in publications including Alföld, Élet és Irodalom, Jelenkor, Látó, and Litera. He is currently an MA student in Literature and Cultural Studies at Eötvös Loránd University.
Date: June 6, 2026, 7:00 PM
Venue: Freedom