Sziget Festival: In Between the Acts

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Labyrinth

We start our walk in the "Museum Quarter", where festival-goers can find a place to rest in the shade. Giant pillows offer an ideal place to sleep off the sounds of the previous evening, but the programmes start at noon.

 
 
Debrecen's Modern and Contemporary Art Centre (MODEM), which is at the Sziget for the first time this year, offers visitors a peaceful place bathed in soft music during the day - ideal for browsing through exhibition catalogues -- and fantastic light in the evening.
The MODEM tent

At the Szentendre Open-Air Museum's tent, visitors can return to their childhoods with the help of giant furniture and oversize clothing. The Moholy-Nagy Art University (MOME) is capturing the island's special and ordinary moments one day and presenting them again the next day. And the Petőfi Literature Museum is showing the history of Hungary's most influential journal, Nyugat, in a converted bus.

 
The Octopus Multi-Art Site and Labyrinth, the brainchild of Medence Csoport, is again one of the premiere attractions at the festival. Visitors can listen to concerts in the Medusa Tent or lose themselves in a bamboo and canvas maze.
 
Luminarium
 
 

The talent of several foreigners can also be seen among the attractions on the festival grounds. Patrice Hubert, from France, has set up a kinetic statue park, and Alan Parkinson, from the UK, has created an 800-square-metre Lumniarium that is sure to create a meditative state in festival-goers.

 

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Patrice Hubert's kinetic statue

Author: Eszter Götz