Conflux Festival 2024
Happening across various locations in Rotterdam from September 19–22, 2024, Conflux returned for its third edition under the theme “Symbiotic Realities.” This year, Katoenhuis Rotterdam hosted the festival’s exhibition.
Dates
19.09 — 22.09.2024
Location
Katoenhuis Rotterdam
Conflux Festival exhibition at Katoenhuis
Perception is a vital conduit between the external world and our inner experience, shaping the very foundation of how we understand and construct reality. At the Conflux Festival, the exhibition invites artists to explore and challenge these processes by presenting works that offer alternative views on how our sensory systems mediate and sometimes distort our relationship with the world around us. Through abstract fields of light, immersive soundscapes, dynamic video patterns, and innovative interventions, the artists reimagine the boundaries of perception, reflecting on the festival's theme, "Symbiotic Realities."
"Symbiotic Realities" calls for a deeper reflection on the interconnectedness between human consciousness, technology, and the environment, suggesting that reality is not a fixed concept but a fluid and evolving experience shaped by myriad forces. In this spirit, the exhibition serves as a laboratory for sensory experimentation, where the audience is invited to experience how perception itself can be stretched, reconfigured, or augmented, forging new connections between the organic and the digital, the natural and the constructed.
Visitors find themselves immersed in a series of experimental light- and sound installations and artworks that challenge conventional ideas about how we perceive reality, encouraging them to engage actively with the sensory interplay that defines our existence in an increasingly interconnected world.
Artists
The exhibition featured works by Jeroen Alexander Meijer, Renzo van Steenbergen & Kristjan Pütsep, Macular, Mariska de Groot & Dieter Vandoren, Sabrina Ratté, Mint Park, Klara Ravat & Saåad, Alberta Balsam, Fronte Vacuo, Nicky Assmann & Joris Strijbos.
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