Crisis as a state of emergency always results in some kind of suspension of previous laws or normas. It forces us to encounter the world, outside our established understanding where these emergencies are rooted. The world economic crisis, global warming, endangered species, migration, politics. If the slogan for the great economic and financial crisis was “too big to fail,” then for the emergencies we are facing today it should be “too big to handle”.
Crisis as a narrative nowadays has become a constant. It lets decision makers justify their selfish actions for the sake of saving humankind from these emergencies without any understanding. These narratives, thus, are empty and far from reality..
The goal of the festival was to bring plasticity to these narratives and without concentrating on the actual topics, show people strategies and techniques of surviving in such conditions. Instead of answers and orders in wich we have less and less trust, tools and arguments were on display.