SONIC ACTS FESTIVAL 2019

21–24 February

Paradiso, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Muziekgebouw aan ’t IJ, De Brakke Grond, Arti et Amicitiae

Under the heading Hereafter Sonic Acts celebrates its 25 year history in 2019 with a festive anniversary edition. 

The first names to be confirmed are Ryoko Akama, Alobhe, Ramon Amaro, Thomas Ankersmit, Ephraim Asili, Bergsonist, Jonas Bers, Rosi Braidotti, Maeve Brennan, Zeno van den Broek, Filipa César, Clausthome and Mārtiņš Ratniks, Tony Cokes, Mieriën Coppens, Quay Dash, Jodi Dean, Stoffel Debuysere, Rick Dolphijn, Flavia Dzodan, Hugo Esquinca, HC Gilje, Rana Hamadeh, Louis Henderson, Lyra Hill, Christina Kubisch, Okkyung Lee, Lukas Marxt, Polina Medvedeva and Andreas Kühne, Yantan Ministry, Jin Mustafa, Charm Mone, DJ Nervoso, BJ Nilsen, Áine O’Dwyer, The Otolith Group and Annie Fletcher, Drone Operatør and Mette Rasmussen, Ulrike Ottinger, Oxhy, Lee Patterson, Nina Pixel, Elizabeth Povinelli, Dave Quam, Irit Rogoff, Ash Sarkar, Claude Speeed, Sasha Litvintseva and Beny Wagner, Divoli S’vere, M.C. Schmidt, Gregory Sholette, Petit Singe, Slikback, Streifenjunko, SUUTOO, Jung An Tagen, Ana Vaz, Olivier Marboeuf and Nuno da Luz, Verdensteatret, Vilde&Inga, Jennifer Walshe, Ji Youn Kang, Susanne M. Winterling, Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa, and YATTA.

▷ More participants will be revealed in the coming weeks!

HEREAFTER

With Hereafter, the festival will use its 25 year history to reflect on the rapid changes in our cultural and artistic relationship with technology, and share the enthusiasm, hope and concern that comes with it. Over the years, the festival’s perspective has also changed from challenging our understanding of audiovisual experiences, to exploring the interplay of humans and machines, and from experimenting with tools and technologies to questioning their social repercussions and their impact on our daily lives. 

Now, by reflecting on the entangled issues of power relations, neo-colonialism, technology, the rise of fascism and the implications of those practices for our environment, Sonic Acts wishes to address some of the pressing topics of our time. The festival will move through conversations with thinkers and artists at a three-day international conference, to multiple evenings filled with audiovisual performances, concerts, films, installations, an exhibition presented across several spaces in Amsterdam and club nights showcasing artists whose own nightlife operations explore some of the very same topics. 

www.sonicacts.com