Delicate Balancing of a Twig
Dávid Somló (Hungary)Delicate Balancing of a Twig is a minimalist movement meditation practice exploring collective presence through a single shared gesture: balancing an ordinary twig on the tiniest point of one’s knuckle. This radically simple act invites care, sensitivity, and deep attention toward an utterly familiar yet often overlooked object, while creating a strong sense of relationality with the environment in which it is practiced (e.g. public space, forest, black box). Practiced together, it becomes a gentle performance – a ‘community without communication’, responding to our era’s longing for quiet, symbolic, and nonverbal ways of being together. In this delicate connection, the question arises: Who is balancing whom?
About artist
Dávid Somló is a Budapest-based performance maker and sound artist working with spatial-relational practices. He creates participatory performances, sound choreographies, and site-responsive installations using simple materials and instructions. Central to his artistic language is spatial sound, composed with a toolkit of portable speakers to craft flexible, immersive sonic environments.
Somló’s works often unfold in public or unconventional spaces – from foot tunnels and forests to Turkish baths and abandoned offices – inviting audiences into shared acts of presence and subtle attentional shifts. His pieces explore how nonverbal, collective experiences can deepen our relationship with our surroundings and each other.
Participation plays a key role, offering open-ended frameworks where there are no right or wrong actions – just human responses.
His works have been presented internationally, including at Festival d’Avignon (FR), Prague Quadriennale (CZ), Passage Festival (DK), FiraTàrrega (ES), D-CAF (EG), Sonorities (NIR), and Placcc Festival (HU), among others.
Credits
Concept and performance: Dávid Somló
Co-producers and supporters: The Big Green Project, Green Streets of Europe, Placcc Festival, Trafó House
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Accessibility: good
The Station Square is accessible to everyone.
Notes
Participatory performance, anyone can join!
The performance is kid-friendly.