We are happy to announce the full programme for FIBER Festival 2020. With the theme 'Instability' we invite a new generation of interdisciplinary makers and thinkers, who each offer a new perspective on the relationship between humans and their environment. They create stories and experiences that invite us to question our position within the planet, addressing climate change and geological activities in new ways. Join us, IRL or online. FIBER Festival 2020 presents a hybrid conference, as well as an exhibition.

↳ Hybrid conference
FIBER Festival 2020 presents a two-day hybrid conference with talks and conversations for everyone interested in art and research that push boundaries and intertwine technology, ecology and society. The focus during these two days is not to demonstrate the planetary state of emergency, but to explore strategies and possible scenarios to adapt or achieve desirable futures.

Over 5 sessions, we invite a multitude of perspectives – from artists, activists and scientists – that allow us to look at environmental crises and related social challenges in new ways. Each session consists of 2 hours, includes 2-3 speakers and closes with a Q&A. All sessions are moderated by Michelle Kasprzak.

With: Abdelrhman Hassan; Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg; Anab Jain; Anca Benera & Arnold Estefan; Angela Chan; Arif Kornweitz; Bayo Akomolafe; Darko Lagunas & Theun Karelse; Holly Jean Buck; Kim Stanley Robinson; Michaele Büsse; Ruben Jacobs; Sébastien Robert; Suzanne Dhaliwal; Tega Brain; Yara Feghali & Viviane El-Kmati.

► Register via https://fiber1.typeform.com/to/odRHbs

↳ Exhibition
With the festival exhibition Instability, FIBER Festival presents a range of emerging artists who respond to the transformative impact humans have on earth. Climate change, ecological crises and the underlying social and economic inequalities are causing global living environments to rapidly change into uninhabitable areas. Slowly the absolute necessity for change is becoming more accepted, but what do these changes look like? And most importantly, what adjustments to our thinking about the planet – including thinking about ourselves – are needed to change course? The exhibition aims to contribute to this matter through artistic thoughts, experiences and imaginations.

With: Luiz Zanotello; Irene Stracuzzi & Alice Wong; Sissel Marie Tonn; Thijs Ebbe Fokkens; Tivon Rice; Tom Burke; Sébastien Robert; Vanessa Opuku & Lion Sauterleute; Whitespace (Anni Nöps & Casimir Geelhoed).

► Get tickets & claim your timeslot via: https://fiber.stager.nl/exhibition/tickets

↳ Performances [SOLD OUT]
A selection of two premiering audiovisual performances concludes the 2020 programme. Live visuals and sound explore the changing landscape of the La Araucanía region in south-central Chile while the dramatic effects caused by receding coastlines around the globe are the focus for wailing odes to an environment at risk. The FIBER Festival 2020 performance programme showcases experimental image-sound experiences that bring the transformations of the planet to life in a complete audible sensory experience.

With: Mark IJzerman & Sébastien Robert; Wanderwelle.

↳ Masterlass
Linked to our festival theme to rethink extractive systems in an honest and sustainable way, we present the masterclass 'Interdependence' with musician and artist Mat Dryhurst. The masterclass is aimed at musicians - and digital artists who depend on networked platforms and large institutions - who want to alter their thoughts on social, alternative and resilient ways of organizing practices. Mat Dryhurst will critique the notion of independence in music. In the platform economy, everyone is rendered as isolated independent agents. Interdependence is in fact a more accurate and hopeful way of describing a challenge to the status quo. Interdependence is a research project and podcast series in collaboration with musician Holly Herndon.

► Get tickets via: https://fiber.stager.nl/web/tickets/111008548

More information: https://2020.fiberfestival.nl