Eruptions 2025
The eruptions serve as narrative threads weaving through the festival’s programme. These are often ideas that spontaneously arise, without being sought out. They grow more intense as the participating creators share the core of their artistic projects with us. Frequently, it’s a single word that reverberates, concealed within diverse formats or aesthetics, yet it transports us to a realm of shared inquiry and exploration.
Food
Food is more than just a physiological necessity – it is also a space for creation and reflection. At Sismògraf 2025, food becomes an artistic medium, a thread linking our environment to contemporary artistic practice. Exploring food through artistic action invites us to pull on many threads. One such thread connects to the garden cultivated by Marcel·lí Antúnez in Moianès. This garden is the starting point for Natura Centrum Est, a street action that will be one of the highlights of this year’s Sismògraf. The festival will also have other, more tangible connections to food, reflected in this year’s poster – a homage to vegetables – and in Maria Camila Sanjinés’ cartographic study of how and where the people of Olot source their food. As part of this, the Mapa Caníbal will be distributed throughout the festival and will feature various live events.
Through this Eruption, we seek to challenge the extractivist and productivist practices of the food industry, particularly in a region where around 12,000 pigs are slaughtered daily and where a major road is planned to cut through one of Catalonia’s most fertile agricultural plains. May Sismògraf 2025 serve as a platform to rethink the relationship between production, consumption and territory.
The Forest
With all its symbolic and material weight, the forest is another central theme of Sismògraf 2025.
From the Cycling Route to the dance and climbing performance Timeless Streams. Whispers of Earth, forests will feature prominently in this year’s festival. Aram Pou, from the Col·lectiu de Professionals de Circ de Girona [Girona Circus Professionals’ Collective], will embark on a research project exploring the relationship between live arts and forests, marking the beginning of a collaboration that will extend beyond the festival, thanks to Carta Verda, a Sismògraf initiative that offers artists time and resources. The forest is also a fragile space, vulnerable to human activity and its own natural cycles of regeneration. This theme will be explored in Incendis, where Nico Jonguen will ‘stage’ a fire in an urban park – an evocative work that speaks to both devastation and the forest’s ability to rise again.
Yet the forest is more than just an endangered ecosystem – it is also a mythological realm, a space of fiction and transformation. At once welcoming and menacing, it is home to both wondrous and fearsome creatures. A gateway to the unknown, to the imaginary, but also a stage and a place of resistance.
