Festival as a condition to think-with

"Festival as a condition to think-with" in: "Antizine", 31.08.2022

How can we think of a performing arts festival as an ally that carries the struggle with the artists and art workers, and supports them in their everyday practices and struggles? How can the festival, with its temporality, become a practice that is rooted in a given context, informing and nourishing its soil long after it ends? And, following the thoughts of Athena Athanasiou[1], how can it become a condition of the common space to be imagined and negotiated?

This text is a revised and shortened version of the lecture presented at Hangö Teaterträff festival on the 11th of June 2022.