Uroboros is an annual festival for art and design research inquiries into the possibilities and limits of more-than-human co-existence. The festival seeks to create a common ground for collective experimentation rather than a showcase stage, inviting authors to introduce new formats and methods, offer provocations, and bring forward ideas they might not have shared before.
Following the 2025 theme Permeating Noise, this year's festival invites artistic and designerly investigations of boundary moments in space and time where different ways of knowing, doing and being interweave, transforming or dissolving one another into new forms.
Whether unfolding between different disciplines, genres, species, thinking entities or systems of thought, such moments of passage can provoke fruitful collisions and regenerative shifts, as well as risky generalisations and pointless revolutions. These entanglements are delicate and their value rarely shared by all: what makes sense to one may appear as distortion to another; what carries meaning in one context may register as noise elsewhere.
The 2025 Uroboros edition calls festival participants into a shared, practice-based exploration of the boundary zones of knowledge production: connecting human & other-than-human, art & science, disciplined & intuitive ways of knowing and meaning-making.
Through a two-day programme of sound walks, noise workshops, multisensory lectures, experimental food sessions, art-science conversations, and a nocturnal dancing set, the festival asks: How might we move through these porous spaces of knowledge to make sense with each other — sensibly, playfully, gracefully — and arrive at new understandings of our individual and shared worlds? What happens when we, even momentarily, abandon existing categories and canons? How can we learn to dance together – across species, contexts, disciplines?
