Festival Themes
We welcome bold visions, fresh interpretations, and stories that resonate with this year’s themes: Echoes, Vibes, and Horizons. There will be a physical exhibition at Sunway University as well as a larger exhibition online.
September 2026
We are looking for multi-disciplinary works in form or content, from painting and photography to multi-media, film and video art to experimental sound and music.
Tab Content: The Power of Two
Partnerships, encounters, and exchanges shape the way we understand ourselves and the world around us. Inspired by the 20th anniversary of the Lancaster University–Sunway University partnership, this theme invites artists to explore the creative and transformative potential that emerges when two forces meet. Whether through collaboration or conflict, intimacy or distance, dialogue or tension, “The Power of Two” celebrates the spaces created between people, cultures, disciplines, technologies, and ideas. From human relationships and intercultural exchange to AI-human collaboration and immersive participation, we welcome works that reflect on coexistence, connection, duality, and shared futures.
Tab Content: Crossings
To cross is to move between worlds. This theme invites artists to reflect on journeys across borders — physical, emotional, political, digital, and imagined. “Crossings” explores movement as an act of survival, transformation, discovery, resistance, or encounter. We welcome works that engage with migration, displacement, mobility, hybridity, coastlines, transitions, and shifting identities, as well as crossings between media, realities, and modes of perception.
Tab Content: Future Memories
Memory is never fixed; it is continuously reshaped through technology, storytelling, archives, and imagination. “Future Memories” invites artists to explore the relationship between remembrance and speculation, asking how we preserve the past while imagining possible futures. From postmemory and intergenerational narratives to artificial intelligence, immersive worlds, ecological futures, and intangible heritage, this theme embraces works that blur the boundaries between history and projection, testimony and invention, documentation and dream.