Fluid Formations brings artists, researchers, practitioners and audience members together in a free two-day gathering of communal listening and thinking.
Invited artists engage with the multispecies ecologies we are part of, and the histories that continue to resonate with and affect us today. The programme asks how to listen to our environment against the background of ongoing geopolitical crises and an accelerating climate emergency. How to understand ourselves as ‘fluid formations’?
Over the two days, participants will engage with different listening positions, while addressing questions around music and migration, environmental listening, and the voice as a (political) instrument. Alternating between conversations (confluences), listening sessions (tributaries), screenings (streams) and radio interviews (waves), the programme asks how gathering around music and sound can encourage empathy and solidarity with others, especially in the present difficult times.
Fluid Formations is presented in collaboration with Rewire festival, the annual international festival for adventurous music in The Hague, and is curated by Katía Truijen. The film programme is curated by the international film festival MIRAGE in Oslo. The programme will be held in English. Participants include Andreas Kühne, Anne Hytta, Ash Kilmartin, Berno Odo Pölzer, Chris Watson, Giada Dalla Bontà, Fatemeh Ekhtesari, Jana Winderen, Katya García-Antón, Lucia D’Errico, Margrethe Pettersen, Marialena Marouda (The Oceanographies Institute), Megan-Leigh Heilig, Nischal Khadka, Pouya Pour-Amin, Radna Rumping, Rasha Nahas, Raven Chacon, Polina Medvedeva, Tony Myatt, Sarah Zahid (and more tbc).
NB. The complete programme will be announced in August on Ultima’s website
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