PODIUM 2026 IS HERE!!!
PROGRAM / JULY 2 – AUGUST 20, 2026
The Working Group for the Program is an informal collective that emerged through several months of collaborative work on the visual arts, music, and discussion programs of the Liberated Student Cultural Center (SKC) in 2025. The collective functions as an open community in which anyone interested can participate. Its work is based on responsibility, collective decision-making, a horizontal organizational structure, and the principle of self-organization.
Through the Program at U10 Art Space, we are creating opportunities for exhibition-making, research, and collaborative artistic work for those who often lack access to such spaces. Continuing the model developed within the Liberated SKC, we seek to highlight the need for free and accessible spaces for emerging and non-established creators working across different media, whose practice and engagement contribute to the field of independent cultural production, challenge dominant institutional frameworks, and question the very functioning of what we call the cultural sphere.
From July 2 to August 20, the Program will develop through thematic segments and open meetings held every week. These meetings will allow anyone interested to propose activities, participate in the organization of the Program, and become part of the Working Group for the Program.
PROGRAM THEMES
July 2–12 — Open Program
July 13–19 — Power Relations
July 20–26 — The Body as a Political Terrain
July 27 – August 2 — Authorship, Language, and Sign
August 3–9 — Technology, Consumerism, and Post-Truth
August 17–20 — Mapping the Process, Conclusions, and Closing
OPENING
Thursday, July 2 at 7:00 PM
The Program will open with the performance Trial of the Working Group for the Program.
OPEN PROGRAM (July 2–12)
The first thematic segment is conceived as a platform for the exchange of ideas, spontaneously initiated projects, performances, workshops, educational activities, screenings, situationist actions, and other forms of collaborative work. During the first ten days, public meetings will be held, open to anyone who wishes to propose an activity and become part of the collective.
Open Meetings:
• Saturday, July 4 at 7:00 PM
• Tuesday, July 7 at 7:00 PM
• Thursday, July 9 at 7:00 PM
• Saturday, July 11 at 7:00 PM
THE PROGRAM IS OPEN TO EVERYONE.
WE SUPPORT ALL FORMS OF CREATION, RESEARCH, EDUCATION, COMMUNICATION, AND PARTICIPATION.
ANYONE CAN BECOME PART OF THE WORKING GROUP FOR THE PROGRAM.
