The escalating climate emergency and the role and importance of art within this context has been an ongoing interest and concern for Sonic Acts over the past decade. Together we have asked how art can respond to, and intervene in, the artificially constructed divisions between nature and culture that have fuelled our extractive economies.
Simultaneously, we strive to put into question the limits of artistic practices in responding to the climate crisis. Sonic Acts has been invested in presenting alternatives to the ideology that sees the nonhuman as a material resource while rethinking the changes that have unfolded on larger geological timescales – the Holocene morphing into the Anthropocene and the deconstruction of colonial sciences that have shaped dominant Western thought over the past centuries. This 30th anniversary edition will also serve as a vantage point for the Biennial to reflect upon its own role in the ecosystem that Sonic Acts is shaping and inhabiting.