Rewire 2020 timetable and programme complete

Today Rewire reveals the 2020 timetable and complete programme, including talks, interventions, performances, films, workshops, texts and a one day academic symposium happening from Friday 3 April to Sunday 5 April across various venues in The Hague.

Reflecting on this year’s festival theme of (Re)setting, which examines the way humans and sound relate to (changing) environments, the discourse programme will feature:

Catalina Pollack Williamson, Desire Marea, Jared Davis, Lee Gamble, Peter Cusack, Rafael Anton Irisarri, Suzanne Dhaliwal, The Caretaker, Ultra-Red, Genevieve Murphy, Pete Harden, Yannis Kyriakides, Chris Watson, Jérôme Sueur, Harpo ‘t Hart, Marcel Cobussen, Pamela Jordan, Umberto Olcese, Sébastien Robert, Hannah Bosma, Willem Pier-Vellinga and Evelien van den Broek.

Adding to the previously announced programme of sonic interventions in public spaces happening in The Hague Forest, Scheveningen harbour and beach, and various city-centre locations as part of Music for a Busy City, British-Dutch artist Justin Bennett will present ‘Central Imaginary District’, a guided sound walk reflecting on The Hague’s new metropolitan area development project ‘Central Innovation District’.

There will also be a film programme showing at Filmhuis Den Haag, and the newly-added exhibition, ‘A State of Amplitude’ at Quartair, showcasing a series of sonic sculptures, instruments and sound transmitting vessels.

The final acts added to the Rewire 2020 music programme are: Peaking Lights (DJ set), Bendik Giske, Tommy Lobo, Flowers / Ghosts & Echoes, and The Social Lover.

Timetable & Tickets

The Rewire 2020 timetable is now online. Rewire 2020 Festival Passes are running low. Festival Passes and Day Passes are available at tickets.

Registrations

Please note: the following events require registration: Hildur Gudnadottir presents Chernobyl, Symposium: The Sonic Landscape,  Expedition: ‘Hearing Like A Hearing’, Soundwalk: ‘Central Imaginary District’, Soundwalk: Barbara Ellison ‘Forest Phantoms’.

All registrations are free of charge except for Hildur Gudnadottir presents Chernobyl. A small registration fee is required to avoid no shows, upon showing your registration you will receive a free drink.

Discourse breakdown

As a sound artist whose work intersects ecology and music, Peter Cusack will give a performative lecture on his project ‘Sounds from Dangerous Places.’ Climate activist Suzanne Dhaliwal will present a talk on art practice in a climate movement built on 500 years of resistance to the patriarchy, capitalism and extractivism that have pushed the earth into climate crisis, while artist Rafael Anton Irisarri will discuss the concept of solastalgia, a form of emotional or existential distress caused by environmental change.

Audio-activist collective Ultra-Red will plot a sound map of The Hague’s social issues, together with Onzichtbaar Den Haag, to show how sounds can be used as a tool for social organisation. Public Interventions-founder Catalina Pollack Williamson will give a talk on ‘critical play’, whilst Lee Gamble will give context to his current trio of concept releases on Hyperdub, which are being presented as an audiovisual show on Friday 3 April.

Associate editor of AQNB Jared Davis will give a critical talk on the Rewire 2020 theme of (Re)setting, whilst FAKA co-founder Desire Marea will dive into their solo album ‘Desire’, also being presented as part of the Rewire 2020 music programme. Finally, Resident Advisor will host an interview with The Caretaker, an artist long-associated with ‘ambient music’ and themes of memory and hauntology. Composers Genevieve Murphy, Pete Harden and Yannis Kyriakides from the Music for a Busy City programme will also give context to their site-specific commissions and general practices in a special panel.

On Friday 3 April, Rewire and The Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision’s RE:VIVE initiative will present ‘The Changing Sonic Landscape’, a one day academic symposium featuring talks and presentations from: BBC nature recordist Chris Watson, electroacoustic researcher Jérôme Sueur, composer and Embassy of the North Sea curator Harpo ‘t Hart, Professor Marcel Cobussen from the University of Leiden, PhD candidate at the University of Amsterdam School of Heritage and Memory Studies Pamela Jordan, Dr. Umberto Olcese from the Cognitive and Systems Neuroscience Group at the University of Amsterdam, researcher and master student of The Hague’s ArtScience Interfaculty Sebastien Robert, Dr. Hannah Bosma from the University of Amsterdam, Dr. Willem-Pier Vellinga from the Xeno-canto database, and composer Evelien van den Broek.

Full symposium event info here