cross­ing wires — arts & democracy

Ohme and BrIAS present five days of presentations and an exhibition exploring contemporary democratic challenges at the intersection of arts and society. The programme moves between talks, workshops and music, with an exhibition to discover throughout the weekend.

In the exhibition, five artists take the pulse of our democracy under pressure. They trace the fault lines running through our societies — institutions that are quietly failing, surveillance systems and algorithms, our flag and nationality, the colonial histories written into our royal greenhouses and the flux of misinformation that discreetly reshapes the world we think we know.

We invite you to understand how new technologies are transforming our democratic systems — and what you can do about it — and to see what art reveals about our cities and our institutions. Crossing Wires brings thinkers, makers and a curious audience into dialogue.