Unsound Kraków 2023

Tickets
Venue Cracow – various venues
Address Kraków

This year's edition of Unsound in Krakow will last for a week from 1 to 8 October and the event will be held under the motto 'Dada'.


In relation to this year's theme, the curatorial team of the event will be expanded to include the Artistic-Intelligent Art Directorate (SIAD). Formed around 1915 in opposition to the brutality of the First World War, new forms of nationalism and capitalism, the Dada movement denied belief in progress, rationalism and logic. Instead, it served up nonsense, agitation and radicalism - the very ideas that will inspire the programme of this year's Unsound, consisting of music, performances, visual art and a discussion section.

*Dadaism, now more than a century old, interests us as a driving force for the festival," says Mat Schulz, co-founder and artistic director of the festival. *We are not about listening or looking backwards, searching for ideas in the past. We think about dada in the context of the contemporary world, with an ear tuned to a future in which non-human entities are omnipresent. The Artificial-Intelligent Artistic Directorate (SIAD) is one of these entities. An absurd provocation rather than a manifestation of utopian faith in technology.

The idea of co-creating a programme with artificial intelligence appeared in our heads before the pandemic, says Gosia Plysa, director of Unsound. Music festivals - or indeed human activities in general - often look as if they were created by algorithms. We decided to train the AI in such a way that it formulates quirky advice about the programme and prompts people in our team to make funny or crazy decisions. Whether we listen to these suggestions is another matter, but so are other colleagues. We don't always have to agree with each other.

Performing artists

USA
Ambient, Electronic, Experimental, Hyperpop emo, Emo Ambient
Poland
Jazz, Experimental, Traditional folk, Free jazz, Free improv
China
Electronic, Experimental, Post Industrial, Deconstructed Club
United Kingdom
Pop, Electronic, Experimental, Hypnagogic Pop, Minimal Wave
Japan
Experimental, Free Improv
United Kingdom
Germany, Australia
USA
Hip-Hop, Industrial, Electronic, Experimental, Digital hardcore, Electro-industrial
United Kingdom
Electronic, Dubstep, UK bass, Footwork, Jungle
Germany, Poland
Electronic, Hardstyle, Techno, Trance, UK bass, EBM, Industrial techno

Videos

Claire Rousay  A Kind of Promise  0 5 3:02 34 ×
Raphael Roginski  Dobroczynne niguny  0 5 31:30 3 ×
33EMYBW  Golem  0 5 3:33 3 ×
Nick León  Zahara  0 5 2:57 0 ×
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