Mutant Art festival 2027 - VORTEXT

Mutant Art festival 2027 - VORTEXT runs from 7 May 2027 to 28 May 2027. Venue: Strasbourg.

The Mutant Art festival is a gathering around the practice of performance art, held in Strasbourg since 2011. This multidisciplinary event will take place from 7 to 25 May 2027, in a series of evening and daytime events. We invite artists from all disciplines, including musicians, visual artists, actors, dancers, poets and writers, who have projects related to performance and performativity, and who can propose work that fits this year’s theme: “Vortext”. The theme of this edition is Vortext, a blend of “vortex” and “text”. This neologism names the whirlwind into which stories, languages and screens pull us. The rise of computing and of an artificial intelligence that overflows, generates, imitates and rewrites is sweeping societies into whirlwinds of revolt and confusion. Who tells the story of the world today? Who writes, who reads, who believes what they read? To invoke Vortext is to question how stories shape our relationship to the world, and how they can also slip out of our hands. It is an invitation to artists to explore these stories: the ones we inherit, the ones machines produce at a speed beyond us, the ones we choose to refuse or reinvent. Reading aloud, live writing, translation, hijacking of algorithms, giving the text a body: these are all ways of taking back control of language. Vortext is also an ode and a tribute to literature, and to everything it gives human beings: a memory, an imagination, a tool for thought and for resistance. Against the endless flow of authorless texts, we invite artists to give voice to embodied, singular, present voices. These are living fictions and stories to be performed, waiting only to be revealed.