For almost three decades, Sonic Acts has sought to celebrate new developments in electronic and digital artforms. We're excited to now reveal Sonic Acts Biennial 2022, staged across various locations in October, interweaving three weekends of exhibition openings, a sound programme, symposium, installations, artist presentations, workshops and more to be announced.
The biennial international festival has gained prominence since 1994 as an intensive art, theory and technology gathering that is motivated by changes in the ecological, political, and social landscapes. Sonic Acts is back in full force this year, stretching beyond its standard format. Already a leading platform for international projects, research and the commissioning and co-production of new artworks, this edition reaffirms its dedication to supporting artists in ever-changing circumstances. Through artistic investigations and research, the organisation advances experimentation and provides a podium for dynamic perspectives, which can in turn be tools for discovery, growth, development, and emancipation.
This year’s edition of Sonic Acts’ biennial emphasises collaborative knowledge creation, as well as experimental sound and moving image that attunes and responds to ecological thinking. Through thought-provoking interventions, the biennial asks how we can care, collectively and despite exhaustion of energies, for what we cannot see or understand. The three weekends around which the biennial revolves provide a slow immersion into the environmental humanities and contemporary art practices responding to the urgency of pollution