Hungary’s derelict ex-communist INOTA power plant has come back to life on Aug. 31, powered by music and light shows, as thousands of festivalgoers marvelled at its three huge cooling towers illuminating the late summer sky.
The coal-fired thermal power plant was one of Hungary’s largest industrial sites in the 1950s and was shut down in 2001. Now it is being re-powered this weekend by dozens of artists, including Berlin-based pianist, composer and producer Nils Frahm, whose sonic alchemy of experimental textures and atmospheric electronica is trying to capture the true ambience of the place, he says.
Hilda Carlsson, 33, and her friends came from Sweden to Hungary largely to see Frahm at the INOTA festival. They went on a guided tour of the vast 225,000 square metre site lit up by light installations over four days. Carlsson said it was even more interesting for her generation, which has few industrial workers because “now there are robots for everything.”
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Very cool
It's an upcycling of architecture with a bleak past.