Symposium Day 1
Spread over two days, the festival symposium acts as a meeting place for adventurous thinkers, artistic makers and anyone looking for ways to approach and deal with urgent topics in today’s culture and society. The programme consists of artist talks, inspiring discussions and critical reflections rooted in artistic creation and research. Short performances and a spatial sound installation enrich the programme, next to a visit to the festival exhibition. Day 1 of FIBER’s symposium programme will focus on artistic practices. You will hear from the creators, performers and researchers as they share their work, methods and visions. We will delve into themes such as digital culture, music and sound art creation.
Programme
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Below the Surface - Fragile and vulnerable ways of producing powerful electronic music
This session is curated and presented in collaboration with Resident Advisor.
11:30 - 12:50, de Brakke Grond (Grote Zaal)
Speakers TBA soon
In the post-COVID era, demand for hard music grew exponentially, with the 4/4 hard techno boom serving as a prime example of maximalist outwards tension. At the same time, while being forced to go inwards in the lockdown days, other listeners were drawn to a very different continuum: the emergence of a dormant convergence of various music genres: psychedelic electronica, powerful ambient, trip-hop, and glitchy, sub-murged organic (poly)rhythms.This session is a conversation between music producers and DJs who focus on a form of spiritual energy and the way in which they strike a balance between speed and fragility.
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Multidimensional Dancefloors - Spatial sound and new modes of listening within night culture
This session is curated and presented in collaboration with Resident Advisor.
13:10 - 14:30, de Brakke Grond (Grote Zaal)
Speakers TBA soonWe’re currently experiencing a shift in electronic music and club culture, where audiences, producers, DJ’s and promoters are increasingly focusing on listening events or unique sonic experiences. While clubs are struggling to stay alive with regular club nights, the attention for listening contexts and spatial/immersive sound experiences has an enormous momentum.
In this panel we try to explore and envision how these developments will influence the future dancefloor or electronic music performance space. Where are we now? What access do the artists have to access the current wave of immersive sound developments? And how can a focus on new listening cultures potentially change the production and experience of music and sound?
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Fragile Territories
15:40 - 17:00, de Brakke Grond (Grote Zaal)
Speakers: Mariana Berezovska (lecture), Louis Braddock Clarke (artist talk)The ‘Fragile Territories’ session focuses on how visual and sound artists tell urgent stories about environmental damage and its consequences for both human and non-human lives, caused by invasive forces. They explore the often overlooked aspects of the extraction industry, ecocide and war crimes through audiovisual performances and music.
Mariana Berezovska researches and presents collaborations between artists and scientists who create audiovisual projects about the extensive environmental destruction caused by russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. She will talk about the projects Echoes of the Earth and Disturbed Ground (a collaboration between Kyiv’s ∄, u2203 and CTM Festival).
A very different kind of invasion is about to unfold around the world, as numerous deep-sea mining companies are assembling their forces on the borders of unknown deep-sea ecosystems. Artist Louis Braddock Clarke introduces us to his practice at the intersection of sound, geopolitics, geology and disrupted ecologies. Highlighting his newest long-term project Roving Rare Earth.
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Keynote & Conversation: Dean Spade (remote)
17:30 - 18:30, de Brakke Grond (Grote Zaal)
More info coming soon
