8th Inter-format Symposium ‘On Rites & Terrabytes’ in Nida.

 

This time the 8th Inter-format Symposium at Nida Art Colony brings together over 50 artists, researchers, philosophers, scientists, ritualists, musicians and other kinds of practitioners to critically reflect on notions of indigenous culture today as well as reinvent traditional knowledges through Rites & Terrabytes.

 

‘Rites and Terrabytes’ refers to the peculiar situation where we increasingly feel or desire a connection with rituals and practices of old despite living in a profoundly mediated ‘post-contemporary’ world. In other words, to reconcile the imagined universes of archaic rites and the ubiquitous terabytes of digital information, we need some firm rooting and grounding (terra), whether in our surviving local indigenous culture or in some newly engineered indigeneity.

 

All are welcome to Nida to critically celebrate midsummer during longest days under the midnight sun!

 

The evening concert featured performances by Obelija, Skeldos, Two Moonwalkers from Księżyc (Robert Niziński and Paweł Romańczuk), and Sala.