26th International Polyphonix Festival Budapest: the alternative poetry festival founded by Jean-Jacques Lebel in Paris is organised each year in a different city. After Paris, Naples, Rome, Marseille and Brussels Hungary hosted the event on two occasions. In 1988 the experimental artists arrived to Szeged, then in 1994 to Budapest. The Polyphonix Festival in cooperation with Artpool gave an insight into the Russian experimental poetry scene: Rea Nikonova and Serge Segay presented their unique sound poetry show of gesture, vacuum, topophonic etc. abstract poems. Besides the leading figures of the scene – Ernst Jandl, Julien Blaine, Timm Ulrichs, Bernard Heidsieck – for instance Piotr Rypson gave a performance of Polish Futurist Sound Poetry.