ELECTROPIXEL #15
Festival of Emerging Digital Cultures and Free Electronic Practices
Electropixel 15 is a space for exchange and free creation, a place where emerging and critical practices meet to invent alternative artistic languages. Join us for this intense and collective edition!
Festival Theme: Ce qui ne se tait pas! (What Will Not Be Silenced!)
In the face of the rise of fascist ideologies in Europe, recently marked by the historic advances of the far right in the European Parliament and the French National Assembly, this exhibition seeks to affirm what persists, what resists, what will not be silenced.
In Nantes — a city marked by memories of struggles, emancipation, and collective resistances — this artistic proposal is rooted in a critical moment. It brings together forms, gestures, and tools drawn from radical, feminist, electronic, decolonial, and collective practices.
Far from the silence imposed by hatred and intolerance, the works presented seek to nourish imaginaries of resistance and care in the face of rising political and digital violence.
In continuation of the training school organized within the framework of the Toolkitof.care action, this exhibition presents a selection of projects and interventions developed as sensitive toolboxes. These works make visible concrete strategies of self-defense, listening, memory, or the détournement of dominant technologies — serving resilient communities.
What Will Not Be Silenced is a call to speech, to creation, and to collective action — where authoritarian narratives would seek to reduce us to silence.
With the support of the City of Nantes and the DRAC Pays de la Loire
Radical Aesthetics – Training School is organized within the project Toolkit of Care, funded by COST (European Cooperation in Science and Technology)
PROGRAM
What Will Not Be Silenced!
Venue: Plateforme Intermédia (6 bd Léon Bureau)
→ A collective exhibition within the festival around digital resistance, feminist practices, and critical technologies. With artists: Marie-Laure Dupont, Na/Da, Eduard Sufrin, Sonia Saroya
Opening hours: every Thursday, Friday and Saturday from 3pm to 7pm
(the exhibition will be closed from July 20 to August 20 – reopening Thursday August 21)
Free entry :
Radical Aesthetics — Training School
Venue: APO33, Impasse de la Psalette
Toolkit of Care – Pre-Festival · Co-located with Electropixel
→ Three days to connect artistic practice, ethics of care and counter-narratives.
No top-down masterclass: a mutual learning camp where we build concrete tools (zines, performances, visual/sound interventions) and test creative resistance tactics against the rise of extremism, surveillance, and systemic injustices.
For whom? Artists, underground musicians, curators, activists, students, technicians, the curious — no “expertise” required, just the desire to do-it-with-others (DIWO).
What you take away: ready-to-use DIWO methods, collective zines/editions, networks, and a public format presented at Electropixel.
Free — Registration required (limited places)
Co-location: The Training School takes place in Nantes in the days directly preceding
the Electropixel Festival, sharing spaces, atmosphere and part of the audience.
Organized by APO33 as part of the Toolkit of Care project, funded by COST.
DAY 1 — Unfolding the Grounds
Venue: APO33, Impasse de la Psalette
Toolkit of Care – Pre-Festival · Co-located with Electropixel
→ A progressive and engaging entry: getting to know each other, mapping our urgencies (artistic/political), forming mixed groups and starting micro-prototypes (visual/sound) around care as an aesthetic tactic.
Highlights:
- 2:00–4:30pm: Workshop · interventions art & “tactical care”
- 5:00–6:00pm: Forum · Curating Technological Freedom — how art influences care, ethics, politics & society
Why attend this day? To enter the dynamic, find your crew and lay the foundations of your public contribution.
Free entry — Registration required
DAY 2 — Making the Tools
Venue: APO33, Impasse de la Psalette
Toolkit of Care – Pre-Festival · Co-located with Electropixel
→ Moving into tooling: feminist digital strategies, archives that resist, and the making of a collective zine as a medium of action/care. You leave with reproducible formats and shared editorial gestures.
Highlights:
- 2:00–4:30pm: Tactical Media — Zine Workshop
- 5:00–6:00pm: Forum 2 · Feminist Digital Tactics & Disobedient Archives
Why attend this day? To produce political/poetic artefacts (zines & co.) and learn methods you can reuse in your contexts.
Free entry — Registration required · material provided
DAY 3 — Going Public
Venue: APO33, Impasse de la Psalette
Electropixel Festival program, marking the transition from the Training School into the festival evenings.
→ Finalising, rehearsing, aligning technical & dramaturgy — then stepping out of the walls. In the evening, public presentation at the Electropixel Festival: performance, screening, intervention… it’s up to you.
Highlights:
- 2:00–4:30pm: DIWO Workshop #3 · Performing the Counterpublic
- 5:00–6:00pm: Finalisation & rehearsal
- 7:00–9:00pm: Public presentation @ Electropixel (performance / screening / intervention)
Why attend this day? To test your forms in real conditions, meet other communities and amplify the reach of your work.
Free entry — Booking recommended for the evening
→ Followed by the EXPERIMENTAL Evening (29 August) and
the ELECTRONOISE Evening (30 August) in the Electropixel agenda.
EXPERIMENTAL Evening
Venue: APO33, Impasse de la Psalette
→ Performances in a heritage site reinvested by the festival for a participatory and experimental evening. Workshops take place during the day, they are free and outdoors.
Artists on Stage:
- Collective Performance – Gisle Froysland (Bergen), Andreas Monopolis (Corfu), Maite Cajaraville (Madrid) and others
Vittoria Assembri (Rome/Tokyo)
Free Entry
(listening in the hall – booking required / members only)
ELECTRONOISE Evening
Venue: Les Ateliers de Bitche
→ Electronoise Evening: radical sound performances, live experiments, electro-acoustic noise and unleashed audio art in a raw and vibrant space.
Price :
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8€ standard
6€ unemployed, RSA, students
4€ members
Online booking!
Book at a nice price for the Electronoise Evening!
Artists on Stage:
- Entartäte Elektronischen (Paris)
DruMWreck (Everywhere)
Andreas Monopolis (Corfu)
Maite Cajaraville (Madrid)
Gisle Frøysland (Norvège)
Vittoria Assembri (Rome/Tokyo)
Stase:Orgone (Somewhere)
Empty Mass (Nantes)
TheNoiser (Nantes/London)
Flagorne (tbc)
Argone (La Roche/Yon)
Volll (Buenos Aires)
6RME (Rennes)
NiNi (Nantes/Norwich)
- With a “tiny bit” of support from the City of Nantes and the DRAC Pays de la Loire.