SIMULTAN FESTIVAL ed. XV
UNSEEN
17 Sept — 2 Oct 2020 / Comenduirea Garnizoanei, Timișoara
EDITION WEBPAGE
SIMULTAN Festival’s XVth edition is a reflection on the meaning and potential of art in the current context of the global pandemic.
Bearing the title ‘UNSEEN’ the 2020 edition alludes to and explores how artists respond to today’s major challenges, that slowly infiltrate into the spectrum of the collective memory and perception, under the sign of uncertainty.
The present-day world is multifaceted. New meanings and dimensions are added, changing boundaries, the terms and conditions of coexistence, reverberating, and evolving through the means of complex communication systems over time. Theories regarding the future try to provide explanations and synoptic descriptions of the state of affairs and fundamental trends, each trying to capitalize as many followers, resources, and power, in a state of amplification and mutual development. Both forces contradict themselves yet engage in collaboration. We provide endless assumptions to complex stories, kaleidoscopic opinions, tutorials for tomorrow, and social movements as forms of expression of different paradigms. Eventually, these manifestations will collide in this process, violently yet creatively, aiming for reconciliation.
Where are we? What does the future hold for us? And where are we heading for in this unseen war?
PARTICIPANTS
– LIVE
Rozi Mákó / Fausto Mercier / Thy Veils / serotom-scotom / Psihodrom / Sillyconductor / Makunouchi Bento / Simina Oprescu / Diana Miron + Laurențiu Coțac + Sian Brie / Iancu Dumitrescu / Peter Kutin / Usvrper Rising / ASMR / Mr. H (dj set)
– VIDEO
Darko Aleksovski / Valeria Barbas / Jason Bernagozzi / Pamela Breda / Sarah Buckius / Methas Chantawongs / Clara de Cápua / Michael Dietrich / Celia Eid & Sébastien Béranger / Iulia Enkelana / Marina Feldhues / Milad Forouzandeh / Duda Gambogi / Ileana Gherghina / Ian Haig / Alex Halka / Constantin Hartenstein / Alexander Isaenko / AUJIK / Markus Keim & Beate Hecher / Abel Korinsky & Petya Stoykova / Vilmos Koter / Kamila Kuc / Vishal Kumaraswamy / Arnaud Laffond / Cezar Lăzărescu / Fu Le / Florencia Levy / Laura Luna Castillo / Ciołkowska Marta / Ruxandra Mitache & Andrei Mitache / Niladri Mukherjee / Smaragda Nitsopoulou / Marie Ouazzani & Nicolas Carrier / Sliaupa Paulius & Elia Claessen / MЫК – Polina Kardymon & Vladimir Bocharov / Janaina Politi Wagner / Laurian Popa / Nuno Sá Pessoa & Jose Cruzio / Alexandre Silveira & Ticiano Monteiro / Elena Solis & Daniela Solis / Calum Stamper / Eszter Szabó / Kent Tate / Anamaria Tatu / Kosta Tonev / Isabel Val & Josep Gutiérrez & Anna Hierro / Roland Wegerer
– INSTALLATIONS
Ioana Vreme Moser & Dan Perjovschi (Virus Diary – Sound Drawings) / Apparatus22 (V series, The Howls Are Not What They Seem, Urgent message from The Department of Art Investments) / Andreea Anghel (Deep dream composites) / Irina Bujor (Shield no. 11) / Sillyconductor (Fixlent)
– TALKS
UNEARTHING +/- ‘89, discuție panel Mimo Obradov, Emanuel Copilas, Mihai-Laurenţiu Fuiorea, Andra Chitimuş și Octav Avramescu /
Iancu Dumitrescu în dialog cu Octav Avramescu
– CONNEX
Utopian Cities, Programmed Societies / CO-Laboratory 1.0
Photo’s by Petru Cojocaru, Alex Boca, Daliana Iacobescu
Co-financed by AFCN – Administration of the National Cultural Fund, Timișoara City Hall and City Council, Timiș County Council.
Partners: Timisoara 2023, Timis County Direction for Culture, Goethe Institut, German Cultural Centre in Timisoara, Shape Platform, Uh Fest, 2580 Association, Indecis – artists run, Rezidența21