Experimentica 2024

Call to Spring

11/04/24 - 14/04/24

Experimentica is our four-day live art festival held by Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, that encourages risk, collaboration and exchange – the only one of its kind in Wales. Running for over twenty years, this biennial festival brings a vital moment for radical and experimental live art practices to thrive.

Marking the turn of the seasons towards new life, Experimentica 2024: Call to Spring will gather artists and communities in celebration of the festival’s legacy and the ecologies that sustain performance within and beyond our locality. As spring awakens post Equinox, we gather to imagine collective futures, welcoming the chaos and spontaneity from which newness emerges. We embrace transformation as a fundamental force of this gathering. Call to Spring will sow seeds for future performance ecologies during this moment of heightened vitality – from collaborative partnerships, networks and residencies to scratch nights, parties and writers' circles.

Call to Spring will be a time for unsettling, for gathering and sowing; for emergent forms and relations to unfurl from the dark.