ISLANDS 2025.MEMORIES

MANIFESTO

 

 

 

We choose an original term or subject every year that reflects what's crucial to people in the arts and to everyone else right now. We take in the world around us and try to identify the things that seem most pressing and relevant.
We move on to Memory in 2025.
Things are evolving at a rate no one has seen before. Conflicts persist. With cyberattacks, the boundaries between fact and fiction become more porous. As soon as we scroll past tragic events, we quickly disregard them. We wonder, in the middle of this chaos, what has stayed with us.
Here are the things we must always keep in mind.
This year, we're encouraging creatives to look into their family trees, beginnings, and personal and shared history.
To make sense of the here and now, we gaze past.
In order to picture a future, we forget.