WSK X

Festival of the Recently Possible

Manila
October 15-27, 2019

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A decade-old platform that aims to advance artistic positions reflecting on the impact of new technologies on people and culture, WSK is celebrating the last edition of Festival of the Recently Possible with cross-border collaborations, interdisciplinary mutations and multisensory raves, from Oct 15 to Oct 27 at multiple locations in Manila.

A variable, ever-shifting, in constant flux, WSK X features will its biggest partnership yet with like-minded organizations across the globe: Nusasonic. A creative collaboration between YES NO KLUB (Yogyakarta), WSK Festival of The Recently Possible (Manila), Playfreely/BlackKaji (Singapore), CTM Festival (Berlin), and Goethe-Institut Indonesien, Nusasonic is a multi-year project that plunges into a broad spectrum of experimental sound and music cultures in Southeast Asia, enabling dialogue not only within the region but also with Europe.

WSK X is supported by 国際交流基金アジアセンター The Japan Foundation Asia Center, under the Grant Program for Promotion of Cultural Collaboration.

WSK X 2019 PROGRAM

Concerts
Hacklabs
Residencies
Exhibitions

The SINE WAVE ORCHESTRA stay

Workshops
Symposia
Film Screenings
Music Label Market
Print and Zine Fair

WSK a modern disemboweled form of “wasak”, which means “shattered” or “destroyed” in Filipino is the first and only annual international art festival dedicated to contemporary electronic, digital, and experimental art The name is derived from the motto: “Art is not a mirror, it is a hammer.”

Launched in 2008 as Fete dela WSK and rebranded as WSK Festival Of The Recently Possible in 2013, the festival explores the diverse range of cross disciplinary artistic activities in the context of digital culture and performance, with focus in collaborative projects between the Phili ppi nes, South East Asia, and beyond. It aims to blur, deconstruct, and reimagine the preconceived notions of how art, culture, and technology diverge, merge, and work tog ether WSK evolved to be the longest running arts and technology festival in the Philippines and has been nourishing communities of loose experimental art collectives.

It is organized by SABAW Media Art Kitchen a not for profit artist run initiative whose primary interests lie in curatorial and research based production towards the imminent intersections of art and technology. The festival primarily runs on a Do It Yourself and Do It Together ethic and is mostly self funded, with partial funding support from cultural organizations

FESTIVAL AS LAB

WSK provides a platform where advances in emerging art forms and innovative applications of new technologies can respond to t
he cutting edge of cultural and social thought.

It was a small step from showcasing innovations, to participating in research and innovation, and from there for the festival
it self to evolve into a research and engagement instrument.

The outcome is a novel approach to living labs – Festival As Lab – that has been developed and refined over a number of years. This approach has been made possibly by the relationships and trust that WSK has built up over many years with cultural and research institutes , artist communities, and also its audience, the core of who are open to experimentation and failure.