HYBRID Festival

Seven curated multidisciplinary productions form the artistic centerpiece of a three-night experience that extends far beyond the stage—into research collaborations and intercultural dialogues. Here, the performing arts meet cutting-edge interactive and digital technologies in an environment focused on exchange, experimentation, and democratized knowledge transfer.

HYBRID brings together diverse communities and practices, creating a festival ecosystem where artists are also researchers, the audience becomes participants, and every performance raises new questions. This is a celebration with a purpose: the revitalization of the performance scene and the establishment of an inclusive, optimistic foundation for the creative future.

Program

Friday — 3 Artists Program

● Dr. Chang Gao — Multimedia Artist & Postdoctoral Researcher | “Affective Encounters: Body, Wonder and Machines” — Intervening Arts at the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) at Freie Universität Berlin

● Aljoša Dakić — Filmmaker & Media Artist | “Pipestream” — KONRAD WOLF Film University Babelsberg

● Sandra Bak — Multimedia Artist | “Black Gold II” — Berlin University of the Arts

Saturday — 2 Artists Program

● Norbert Pape — Choreographer & Transdisciplinary Artist | “Ways_to_Wake_Up_5_More_Minutes._clip1”

● Viola Yip — Composer, Performer & Instrument Maker | “The Ombré of Touch”

Sunday — 2 Artists Program

● Christine Bonansea / Luca Forcucci / Riccardo Castagnola — Choreographer, Composer & Video Artist | “NOT(SO)HUMAN”

● Sabine Ercklentz / Claudia Schmitz — Composer & Live Moving Image on Sculpture | “INTER_SECTION #8 | SPACE:FOLDS”

Moderated dialogue with artists, the audience, and invited guests on Friday, May 22, 2026:

- Prof. Mathilde ter Heijne, Berlin University of the Arts, Professor of Performance and Time-Based Art, founder of art&dialogue, an intersectional-feminist, artist-led initiative

- Nuno N. Correia, Tallinn University (EE), Director of the European platform MODINA

- Prof. Dr. Lena Gieseke, KONRAD WOLF Film University Babelsberg, Professor of Image-based Media Technologies, Dean of the M.A. Creative Technologies program, Co-Director of the Creative Exchange Studio

- Dr.-Ing. Angela Brennecke, KONRAD WOLF Film University Babelsberg, Professor of Audio and Interactive Media Technologies, Co-Director of the Creative Exchange Studio

Duration:

2 hours

IN ENGLISH