The 7th Futurological Congress: The Future of the Contact Zone
18–19 October, Tårnsalen, KODE

The Futurological Congress is a hybrid artistic, intellectual, and speculative gathering — part exhibition, part symposium, part performative scenography. The Bergen chapter focuses on the ‘contact zone’: charged spaces where species, systems, and sensibilities converge. Today, these zones extend far beyond physical terrains into algorithmic ecologies, multispecies entanglements, and blurred boundaries between human and machine.

Through talks, performances, film screenings, and visual interventions, the congress stages discourse as a shared, sensorial, and speculative act. The invited contributors include artists, researchers, and thinkers who engage with themes of autoethnography, code-switching, vernacular expression, mimicry, and the politics of intelligibility. Together, they ask: What does it mean to think, create, and interpret when these actions emerge from more-than-human intelligences?

Conceived as a two-day programme, the Bergen edition unfolds in Tårnsalen at KODE — a venue whose architectural specificity and atmosphere become part of the scenography itself. The 7th Futurological Congress features Mari Bastashevski, Katya Garcia Anton, Ed Keller, Adam Kleinman, Pierre Huyghe, Larissa Mendoza Straffon, Patricia Reed, Hito Steyerl, Martinus Suijkerbuijk, and Amir Yatziv. The Bergen edition is conceived by Julieta Aranda and David Rych.