Editor: Mirna Belina
Copy Editor: Jason Coburn
Design: The Rodina
320 pp., 700 g, 17 x 24 cm, English, February 2019
ISBN: 978-90-823216-5-4

This book draws from our quarter-of-a-century festival ‘celebration’ in 2019, but it is not dedicated to ‘looking back’ on the way Sonic Acts, along with the world, has changed. Rather, it is devoted to finding ways of confronting and surviving the brutality of now. It contains a rare selection of critical essays on contemporary political and climate realities, colonial legacies of European projects, and racial and gender biases of contemporary technologies. Visual and textual contributions highlight an evocative approach to writing, merging field notes and memoir, to accurately capture the processes of making work fuelled by research. It also contains tender contributions that embed modes of discourse within the visual, in order to gauge the complexities and interconnections of this crisis and re-imagine a different reality.

Published with the support of Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

Contents

Introduction – Mirna Belina

The Anamorphic Politics Of Climate Change – Jodi Dean

Confronting Fascist Banalities on the Centenary +10 of The Futurist Manifesto – Gregory Sholette

Entropik Archive – Clausthome, Mārtiņš Ratniks

The Coloniality of the Algorithm – Flavia Dzodan

The Tongue Twister – Rana Hamadeh

The Social Imaginary of Microorganisms – Susanne M. Winterling

The Unfolding of Life in a Spiral – The Living and The Dead Ensemble

The Sounds of Toxicity, The Stubbornness of Survivance – Elizabeth A. Povinelli

Salvaging the Salton Sea – William L. Fox

Accidental Geopoetics – The Rodina with Lukáš Likavčan

Never Odd or Even - On Palindromes and Metaphors – Sasha Litvintseva, Beny Wagner

★ Jacques Rancière: On the Borders of Fiction – In Conversation with Stoffel Debuysere

[This Page Left Intentionally Blank] – Emma Wolukau-Wanambwa

Humble Derives From Humus – Filipa César

New(S) Note(S) Cycle(S) – Ephraim Asili

The Informals /Неформалы: On Escapist Spatial Narratives and Improvisation As a Mode of Production – Polina Medvedeva, Andreas Kühne

Filming The Dark – Ana Vaz

★ Jennifer Walshe: Dinosaurs, Trauma and AI – In conversation with Arie Altena

BJ Nilsen: ORE – Arie Altena

★ The Acousmonium: Another Utopia, Devoted to Pure Listening – Victoria Douka-Doukopoulou

★ 25 Years Of Sonic Acts: 1994–2019 – Arie Altena, Lucas van der Velden