Wind Tunnel Festival 2024
Swirling Winds Won't Center

There is a wind tunnel on the roof of the art school in Zurich. It is an open space that provides a gentle airstream molding the invisible and undermines imperial thoughts and colonial practices. In the third edition of the Wind Tunnel Festival, we look for the non-aligned winds that leave the streamlines and swirl in different directions. For our winds should not narrate the records of power, progress, epic histories, and its winners. Instead, they whisper the vast number of parallel stories swirling off the grid.

 

The Wind Tunnel Festival redirects attention towards the unseemly, the in-between, and the silenced. Bringing these winds into focus as equals we let them swirl but never center. Together with all participants, we follow the multiple flows to create new narratives through imaginative space-making and transdisciplinary co-learning. This is concerned with engaging the body in activities of making and discussing, in which simultaneities between embodied knowledges and critical practices could inspire lasting exchanges. The Wind Tunnel is a walk-in sculpture with its ecosystem meant for convening wind and people, conducting flows of air and thought, to share practices and challenges.

 

 

On May 24–25, 2024, the Wind Tunnel invites artists, scientists, and the audience for exchange and encounters. In open rehearsals, we spend time together and search for new insights and moments of connection.

 

We will approach the wind through sound, film, literature, and music, and talk to it through dreaming practice with contributions by Debasish Bipul Borah, Lizeth Cordoba Adarme & Manuel Yawar Muyuy, Florian Dombois, Samia Henni, KUĆĆA, Madafi Pierre, Raqs Media Collective, Helene Romakin, Jörg Scheller, Dubravka Sekulić, U5.  

 

 

 

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