The theme for the 2022 edition of the festival Unsound Kraków is ‘Bubbles’. On the one hand, the word evokes the idea of celebration – and indeed this year the festival will celebrate its 20th edition, from 9-16 October 2022. ‘Bubbles’ might evoke a glass of champagne, a cluster of colourful balloons floating up into the sky. ‘Bubbles’ also refers to the way that different communities are isolated from one another and connected, whether through social media, geography or politics.
But the theme also has roots in the theories of economist Hyman P. Minsky, who developed five stages in the concept of a speculative bubble: Displacement, Boom, Euphoria, Profit Taking and Panic. Although the world is rife with financial speculation – from property to stock markets to crypto – Unsound intends to broadly riff on these words as sub-themes, tapping into broader ideas they might evoke in relation to music, culture and society, in ways both light and dark.
The Unsound Open Call this year focuses largely on the daytime discourse programme, encouraging a response to the word ‘Bubbles’– or any of the subthemes. Between two to five entries will be included in the 2022 programme and will receive a fee of 2000 PLN (approx. 450 EUR) each. Unsound will cover the costs of travel and accommodation.
