About Unsound
Unsound focuses on a broad swath of contemporary music — emerging, experimental, and leftfield — whose sweep doesn’t follow typical genre constraints. Influential around the world, it has developed a reputation for identifying innovative scenes and radical sounds. It’s a platform for an exchange of artistic ideas for musicians, visual artists, curators, journalists, record label owners and booking agents from every continent.
Founded in 2003, Unsound wasn’t always the festival it is now. The very first edition ended with artists thrown out of a club for playing music that was too weird for regular patrons. Now, with the main festival still happening every year at a number of venues across Kraków, regular events also take place in New York, Adelaide, Toronto, and London. Between 2016 and 2018, Unsound also produced eleven festivals in Eastern Europe, Central Asia and the Caucasus, part of a long history of working with curators and artists in the post-Soviet region.
As well as spotlighting emerging artists, Unsound also commissions new shows and encourages transborder collaborations, adapts and reimagines abandoned spaces for concerts and club nights, manages cutting-edge artists, and is known for its sound-inspired Ephemera perfume project.
SPHERA DAY AT UNSOUND – Program
13 October 2021, 10.00—20.30
10:00—13:00
Partners meeting @ Pałac Potockich
13:00 Lunch
12:00—18:00 Sphera Day (talks, panels) @ Pałac Krzysztofory
12.00 Discussion: The Topography of Oppression Online
13.30 Discussion: Ecology of Care
15.00
Discussion: Well, Actually… Wellness, Psychedelics and Neoliberalism
16.30 Presentation: Deep Authenticy, with Sam Rolfes
17.30 Presentation: The Synthetic and the Real, with Benjamin Bratton
19:00—20:30 Cocktail meeting @ Hevre
14 October 2021, 10.00—18.00
10:00—13:00
Partners meeting @ Pałac Potockich
13:00 Lunch
12:00—18:00 Sphera Day (talks, panels) @ Pałac Krzysztofory
12.00
Screening and Discussion: Shy Radicals
13.00
Journalism Workshop with RA
13.30 Presentation: Chakram Polarizer, with Eternal Engine
14.00
Presentation: The ABC of the Projectariat
15.15
Presentation: Listening to (the ASMR of) Sounding Things (Otherwise Known as Intimacy), with David Toop
16.00
Artist talk: Angel Bat Dawid
17.15
Discussion: Squeezed Out – Cities, Tourism and Gentrification