SUNPLUGGED FESTIVAL
21-30 June 2024, Faro (PT)
5-6 July 2024, Ystad (SE)
27-28 September 2024, Bari (IT)
About the SUNPLUGGED Festival
Between June and September 2024, the SUNPLUGGED artistic team exhibited
a series of sunlight artworks in various locations: Faro (June 21-30), Kåseberga and Ystad (July 5-6), and Bari (September 27-28). These exhibitions showed different sculptures, installations and performances making use of sunlight as a material, and creatively re-interpreting sustainable solar rituals identified during the SUNPLUGGED Residencies.
At each location, SUNPLUGGED Festival offered a series of talks, walks and creative workshops making the festival and exhibitions accessible to local communities.
a series of sunlight artworks in various locations: Faro (June 21-30), Kåseberga and Ystad (July 5-6), and Bari (September 27-28). These exhibitions showed different sculptures, installations and performances making use of sunlight as a material, and creatively re-interpreting sustainable solar rituals identified during the SUNPLUGGED Residencies.
At each location, SUNPLUGGED Festival offered a series of talks, walks and creative workshops making the festival and exhibitions accessible to local communities.
SUNPLUGGED Festival Programmes
The detailed programme for the SUNPLUGGED Festival is:
Our Artists
The artistic team for SUNPLUGGED 2024-25 is:
- Tó Quintassculpture, scenographySelf-taught, set designer, model designer, airplane builder, visual artist, sculptor, inventor, he has the gift of transforming everything and making dreams come true. At his place of work, in Faro, Tó Quintas has brought to life several scenarios for various artistic collectives in the Algarve region.
- Kah Bee Chowinstallation, performanceWorks with forms of enclosures in relation to animals and the human body, with close attention to particularities of space and site, through sculpture, video and text. She lives and works in Malmö, Sweden, and Penang, Malaysia. Chow received her MFA in 2012 from Malmö Art Academy.
- Teatringestazionemultidisciplinary performing art companyFounded by the artists and curators Gesualdi | Trono, is a multidisciplinary performing art company. Their artistic action aims to subvert the everyday coordinates to inaugurate a space of crisis collective questioning. They work in national, international, independent, institutional, artistic, and social contexts.
About SUNPLUGGED
SUNPLUGGED - Sustainable Solar Rituals is a transnational sunlight art festival.
It invites artists and citizens to re-interpret old and contemporary relationships between people(s) and the sun, and gives form to new sustainable solar rituals in which artistic practices re-imagine new ways to power ecologically-resilient lifestyles and regenerative transition of socio-ecological systems.
Intangible and tangible sun-related heritages across Faro (Portugal), Ystad (Sweden) and Bari (Italy) will be activated with talks, walks, creative workshops, arts exhibitions, design competitions and conferences, in order to expand the concept of light art, transitioning it from an energy-intensive nighttime experience to a nature-based, energy-efficient experience accessible in urban and rural landscapes.
It invites artists and citizens to re-interpret old and contemporary relationships between people(s) and the sun, and gives form to new sustainable solar rituals in which artistic practices re-imagine new ways to power ecologically-resilient lifestyles and regenerative transition of socio-ecological systems.
Intangible and tangible sun-related heritages across Faro (Portugal), Ystad (Sweden) and Bari (Italy) will be activated with talks, walks, creative workshops, arts exhibitions, design competitions and conferences, in order to expand the concept of light art, transitioning it from an energy-intensive nighttime experience to a nature-based, energy-efficient experience accessible in urban and rural landscapes.
