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New Landscape Festival
New Landscape begins where the landscape ceases to be a backdrop and becomes the witness of a world in transformation. Water changes its courses, vegetation migrates, habitats fragment, and natural rhythms are reconfigured by the effects of climate change. Some of these mutations are already visible, others are not, from sediments and microorganisms to entire territories in imbalance. Field research and artistic production become instruments of observation and interpretation. New Landscape regards the landscape as a living, vulnerable organism that records in its own matter the current transformations of the present.
New Landscape Festival, Contamination. Art. Science. Nature. Film, takes place between 21 and 25 October 2026 in Bucharest, at five venues: CASA, the Centre for Applied Art and Science (44 Tudor Arghezi Street), UNATC, Cinemateca Eforie, Cinema Elvire Popesco and Point. The programme brings together the Water_LAB exhibition, an academic discussion, programmes of experimental short films and of scientific films, outdoor screenings, a performance and a workshop.
Curators and guests
- Márton Orosz, curator, researcher and director of the film György Kepes: Interthinking Art + Science; curator of the Media Environments and Ecological Environments programmes
- Ovidiu Daneș and Ana Szel, curators of the Aquatic Ecosystems programme
- Jeff Daniel Silva, artist, filmmaker and anthropologist, co-founder of the Sensory Ethnography Lab (Harvard); presents the premiere of Mare Sapiens and coordinates a workshop at UNATC
- Christian Ferencz-Flatz, philosopher and media theorist, moderator of the academic discussion
- Florin Zăinescu and Georgiana Grigore, researchers at the University of Bucharest (geomorphology and microbiology respectively), guests at the Q&A of the Aquatic Ecosystems programme
- Greets Gijs and Sillyconductor, performance and workshop at CASA
Programul Festivalului
Programme and events
18:00Water_LAB Exhibition Openingexhibition · CASA, Centre for Art and Applied Science
16:00Academic Talktalk · UNATC, Blue Hall
18:00Leviathanscreening · Cinema Elvire Popesco
20:30Waterscapes 1screening · Cinema Elvire Popesco
20:00Aquatic Ecosystemsscreening · Cinemateca Eforie
17:00Guided tour of Water_LABevent · CASA, Center for Art & Science in Action
18:30Media Environmentsscreening · CASA, Centre of Art and Applied Science (outdoors)
20:00Waterscapes 2screening · CASA, Centre for Art and Applied Science (open-air)
21:30Performance: Greets Gijs, Sillyconductorperformance · CASA, Centre for Applied Art and Science
16:00Workshop: Greets Gijs, Sillyconductorworkshop · CASA, Centre for Applied Art and Science
18:00Ecological Environmentsscreening · Point
20:30György Kepes. Interthinking Art + Sciencescreening · Point
