The 2025 Festival of Transformation, and its exhibition, is an attempt to extend empathy to other species and natural phenomena. The act of feeling with entities as different from us as bacteria, insects, trees, rivers or oceans would be a utopian task, a manifestation of a naive romanticisation of nature. Therefore, instead of postulating fellow feeling in its literal sense, we propose the eponymous being-with, referring to the conscious inhabitation and co-creation of a shared ecosystem.
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ARTIST TALK : THE ART OF FINE-TUNING, OR WHAT NATURE IS BUZZING ABOUT.
Guests: Marco Barotti, Azael Holtz, Anne Marie Maes, Sefa Sagir, Robertina Šebjanič, Kuai Shen
Hosted by: Rafał Kosewski, Curator of the Festival
Saturday 4 October 2025, Time: 6.15 PM – 7.15 PM, Cafetaria, Level1

Let us immerse ourselves in acoustic seascapes, Amazonian jungles and urban grasslands, listening to what has hitherto buzzed or pulsed beyond the human radar. We will talk about how diverse species communicate about their well-being and threats (through resonances, chemical impulses or forms of organisation) and about the role of art in bringing their hidden speech closer to humans. The protagonists will be ants, corals, bees and sea urchins. All of them are the main focus of the art projects presented at the festival exhibition.

Still from observation video ‘Variation Games’; prototypes for Guerrilla Beehive with Sensorial Skins; still from video ‘Variation Games’ (pollen); Glossa (bee tongue) – jaquard tapestry