Namur (Belgium) will receive over fifty creative minds of today who are designing the world of tomorrow at the ninth edition of Kikk Festival, taking place from October 31 to November 3. Under the theme Archipelagos of Fragility, the festival will feature debates, conferences and workshops about the destructibility of our planet and how technology can ironically help to solve today’s problems, as well as having installations across the city, a marketplace and an area especially aimed at professionals.
Kikk is the celebration of new technologies, art and design, architecture, 2.0 media, science and even business, and will explore all these fields with a packed programme. So, how can we assimilate that much content? The festival makes it easy for everyone to learn more in a fun and interactive way. First of all, you can start with Kikk in Town, a non-centric art exhibition that will take over the Belgian city in more than twenty different locations. Furthermore, this year’s edition puts a special focus on the African continent, as the festival collaborates with Ker Thiossane and The Dak’art Biennale with curators Delphine Buysse and Marion Louisgrand Syllat to show a selection of artists from Africa and the diaspora.
For example, Moroccan artist Younes Baba-Ali presents Paraboles, which explores the physical and metaphorical relationship between migrants and their host communities through satellite dishes. South African artist François Knoetze will showcase Core Dump, a piece exploring a hypothetical crash on the capitalist system around the world (set in four chapters happening in four different cities: Dakar, New York, Shenzhen and Kinshasa). Or other artists will talk about borders, limits, cartography and immigration, like Senegalese artist Abdoulaye Armin Kane with his artwork 100 Frontières, or Egyptian artist Magdi Mostafa with the piece The Surface of Spectral Scattering.
After enjoying the several artworks and installations across the city, head to the conference theatre. More than forty conferences will be your best source of knowledge to discover how people in the fields of science, technology, art or engineering are shaping the future. Creative coding, data visualization, VR/AR, machine learning, bio art, design, research… The themes are as wide and varied as their speakers. Among them, we will be able to meet prestigious Memo Akten, who’ll be presenting a talk titled Waves & Gods: Rituals for the Future – he also has the installation Body Paint as part of the Kikk in Town programme; Martin Messier, an audio-visual artist from Montreal speaking about his personal experiences; Giulia Tomasello, working at the intersection of design, biology, wearables and healthcare, who’ll be presenting the project Future Flora, consisting of underwear with bacteria that prevent vaginal infections; or Darsha Hewitt, whose work demystifies the systems hidden in technology through the deconstruction of obsolete domestic technologies.
After enjoying the several artworks and installations across the city, head to the conference theatre. More than forty conferences will be your best source of knowledge to discover how people in the fields of science, technology, art or engineering are shaping the future. Creative coding, data visualization, VR/AR, machine learning, bio art, design, research… The themes are as wide and varied as their speakers. Among them, we will be able to meet prestigious Memo Akten, who’ll be presenting a talk titled Waves & Gods: Rituals for the Future – he also has the installation Body Paint as part of the Kikk in Town programme; Martin Messier, an audio-visual artist from Montreal speaking about his personal experiences; Giulia Tomasello, working at the intersection of design, biology, wearables and healthcare, who’ll be presenting the project Future Flora, consisting of underwear with bacteria that prevent vaginal infections; or Darsha Hewitt, whose work demystifies the systems hidden in technology through the deconstruction of obsolete domestic technologies.
For example, Moroccan artist Younes Baba-Ali presents Paraboles, which explores the physical and metaphorical relationship between migrants and their host communities through satellite dishes. South African artist François Knoetze will showcase Core Dump, a piece exploring a hypothetical crash on the capitalist system around the world (set in four chapters happening in four different cities: Dakar, New York, Shenzhen and Kinshasa). Or other artists will talk about borders, limits, cartography and immigration, like Senegalese artist Abdoulaye Armin Kane with his artwork 100 Frontières, or Egyptian artist Magdi Mostafa with the piece The Surface of Spectral Scattering.
After enjoying the several artworks and installations across the city, head to the conference theatre. More than forty conferences will be your best source of knowledge to discover how people in the fields of science, technology, art or engineering are shaping the future. Creative coding, data visualization, VR/AR, machine learning, bio art, design, research… The themes are as wide and varied as their speakers. Among them, we will be able to meet prestigious Memo Akten, who’ll be presenting a talk titled Waves & Gods: Rituals for the Future – he also has the installation Body Paint as part of the Kikk in Town programme; Martin Messier, an audio-visual artist from Montreal speaking about his personal experiences; Giulia Tomasello, working at the intersection of design, biology, wearables and healthcare, who’ll be presenting the project Future Flora, consisting of underwear with bacteria that prevent vaginal infections; or Darsha Hewitt, whose work demystifies the systems hidden in technology through the deconstruction of obsolete domestic technologies.
After enjoying the several artworks and installations across the city, head to the conference theatre. More than forty conferences will be your best source of knowledge to discover how people in the fields of science, technology, art or engineering are shaping the future. Creative coding, data visualization, VR/AR, machine learning, bio art, design, research… The themes are as wide and varied as their speakers. Among them, we will be able to meet prestigious Memo Akten, who’ll be presenting a talk titled Waves & Gods: Rituals for the Future – he also has the installation Body Paint as part of the Kikk in Town programme; Martin Messier, an audio-visual artist from Montreal speaking about his personal experiences; Giulia Tomasello, working at the intersection of design, biology, wearables and healthcare, who’ll be presenting the project Future Flora, consisting of underwear with bacteria that prevent vaginal infections; or Darsha Hewitt, whose work demystifies the systems hidden in technology through the deconstruction of obsolete domestic technologies.
Kikk Festival will take place from October 31 to November 3 across different locations of Namur (Belgium).
