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TRANS-DISCIPLINARY & TRANS-NATIONAL FESTIVAL OF ART & SCIENCE

FACTT 20/21

IMPROBABLE

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FACTT 20/21 Improbable Times

These are improbable times. A year ago we started to feel the first effects of an event – a change that would come in a form of a pandemic. Our daily routines were completely put on hold and we were forced to rethink, remake and adapt in order to respond to such an altercation. Lives were, indeed, put on hold. These are (im)probable times and the consequences reach beyond the health crisis. It became clear that humans, as a collective living system, have certain fragilities that linger throughout time and that right now, have to be rethought more than ever.

Cultivamos Cultura and Arte Institute in collaboration with our worldwide partners provide and actively promote conditions to foster the creative response of artists towards these new challenges. Together we develop a series of activities within FACTT Festival 20/21 which result from a complex network of social and environmental interactions. Together we plan remote, face-to-face, local and international public engagement activities, by bringing to the forefront the work of artists from all over the world. We plan to present artworks and creative outcomes in a hybrid space entangling the virtual and physical; a space that desires to break the limits of access to culture, to collaboration, to the experience of art.

Following the idea of humans as a collective, living and breathing system, it’s difficult not to think how our individual actions affect the course of the whole. In this FACTT we propose to reflect about Art in a loose but strong parallel to the times we’re living. We have a larger impact than what we might think at first and all our actions have consequences not just for humanity but for the non-human systems. We can think of this collective system, in which we are all involved, as an organism, and like other organisms we work in distinct and complex scales. Our extended community has bloomed through fragility, and our choices have now a bigger, heavier influence on what will be the aftermath of this crisis.

Through FACTT20/21 we wish to think deeply and creatively together about the (im)probable times we are living in, by developing collaborative new strategies to face the rapid and sudden transformations our lives and environment. This year’s FACTT is more than ever an ongoing research process of adaptation, constantly rethinking itself into becoming a profound and richer experience for all, without exceptions, beyond art.

FACTT 20/21 Improbable Times

Improbable Times

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Events

BLOT | Q&A with Simona Deaconescu and Vanessa Goodman

BLOT at FACTT 20|21

Meeting our FACTT 20/21 artists II

Proximal Spaces by Joel Ong and Elaine Whittaker + Poetry Reading

Meeting our FACTT 20/21 artists

Online Empathy 5.3 – Oniris, or the awakening of the lucid body By Bioscénica

Third Sonorous Body (Tercer Cuerpo Sonoro) By Arte+Ciencia

«Void * ambience: Latency» By Joel Ong, Michael Palumbo and Kavi

"As geography becomes digitally remapped into data sets, access to territories merge the urban with the rural, the contaminated with the pristine, and even the retreating glacier with the desert, eliciting a world view without political and tribal borders."

"We need to rethink the way in which we inhabit the others as well as our own subjectivity."

“How can a place that is not here show itself? Can a landscape include me as a part of it?”

"I am looking for preserved but adjusted versions of relationships in anatomy."

"Life Hack is a work of satire, in which I demonstrate reconstructing the wounded flesh to the best of my ability, with a practical calmness that de-personalizes the “patient” and slowly desensitizes the viewer to the severity of the wound."

"We are interested in the multi-dimensionality and intersubjectivities of time folded in the instance of an online conference; and in the temporal zones of the pandemic, developing site-specific projects that connect to prevailing stages of lockdown in Toronto."

"The deceiving moment happens when it is perceived that the aseptic inside contrasts with the touchable and breathable outside."

"We need to rethink the way in which we inhabit the others as well as our own subjectivity."

"Askos: The Wind Repository is an interactive sound installation that uses the concept of the wind with the aim to investigate the idea of tangibility and its opposite: the intangibility"

Partners

China Central Academy of Fine Arts

Sensorium

Arte+Ciencia UNAM

Cultivamos Cultura

InArts Lab – Ionian University

DesignTO Festival

Artsci Salon

BIOSCÉNICA

School of Arts, Media, Performance and Design (AMPD)

SVA NYC

Ectopia

Adaptation sounds like an evident thing. Everything adapts to a context, a space, a circumstance. What there is, is always in relation to the space, the territory, the environment in which it inhabits. Is it?