Motonation: Situations was concieved during a residency at Art Quarter Budapest, and performed at Happy Nation: an evening of performance, sound and transnational alliance co-curated with Tamás Pall (Hollow) and András Molnár (Stanley Maneuver, Folyékony Máshol) at AQB, organised around two site-specific performances created by Jelena Visković and the artist collective Hollow (Tamás Páll, Gyula Muskovics, Viktor Szeri), featuring performers Marija Iva Gocić and Chad Spence aka. Čedo .

Interview about the project with Borsos Lőrinc

The project is supported by UNESCO, through the "Culture and Creativity for the Western Balkans", a project funded by the European Union that aims to foster dialogue in the Western Balkans by enhancing the cultural and creative sectors for increased socio-economic impact.

Expanding the space of the film Motonation through the the backstory of the counterculture movement Happy Nation, a setting where the film begins, the performance traced a world interwoven with AQB’s real-life social dynamics as an independent artist-run space.

Rather than proposing speculative “other worlds” or distant futures we cannot meaningfully predict, Happy Nation insisted on staying with the present: a moment defined by overlapping crises, technological saturation, and political exhaustion, but also by stubborn forms of hope and collective imagination. The all-night long continous night of performance and music connecting people across a hard-EU border treated the present as a shared performative space to inhabit and negotiate.