Dream Theory is a music festival curated by NERO for Kunsthal 44Møen, a two-day sound ritual taking place on the island of Møn, in southern Denmark, on August 2nd and 3rd, 2025. The festival is part of the Kunsthal’s public program, curated by South into North to explore the “thin places” where the boundary between the earthly and the spiritual is unusually thin and easily crossed. Dream Theory investigates the permeability of these domains through sound, featuring performative and musical acts by local and international artists.
Lucy Rose Sollitt - Creative Director at FutureEverything, and a researcher and cultural programmer specialising in innovatively merging art, technology, and ecosystemic change - writes in “The Synthetic Sacred, published by NERO Magazine in 2023 that thin places in art offer “the opportunity to reconnect with the sacred.” Thin places expand connections between ancient cosmologies and contemporary hybrid ecologies, as Lucy explains:
“The role of artists is to take us to thin places. To shine light on contemporary experience and explore the meaning and implications of the past and futures enfolded within it. If done with purpose (not just performatively), art can be a site of sacred encounters that are grounded in the mystery, uncertainty of the synthetic present. These encounters can enable us to feel fear in a safe way and hopefully reconfigure the fear into a new understanding, bringing clarity, catharsis, and hope.” (...) “In the contexts where there has been a separation between humans, nature and the sacred, art can help reorientate and connect. When art operates as a space of open experimentation, research, and exploration it can cross fertilize ideas and belief systems.”
Continue reading about The Synthetic Sacred, thin places and hybrid ecologies on our website neroeditions.com/docs/the-synthetic-sacred/, or through the link in bio🔗
Find all info and tickets for Dream Theory on 44moen.dk/en/dream-theory 🧘🏼♀️💭⭐️🕯️
Image credit: River Claure, “Ekeko,” from Warawar Wawa (Son of the Stars) series, 2022, photograph
We are excited to announce the launch of ‘Compost Computer’ in collaboration with The Critical Climate Computing (CCC) initiative at University of the Arts London (UAL @unioftheartslondon ).
This experimental project is a complete redesign of FutureEverything's computational system from the soil up. With our server powered by compost, our website will be built and guided by its engagement with compost lifecycles.
The project aims to raise awareness about the real material dimensions of technology. With its compost-powered bio-reactor situated at Manchester community growing site, MUD @mud_cic , we aim to equip local communities with tools to devise their own eco-approaches to web and energy infrastructure. Compost Computer is inspired by and hopes to contribute to artistic and activist movements in permacomputing, low-TEK, regenerative computing, and digital de-growth. The project includes a collaboration with Manchester based social enterprise, Sow the City ( @sowthecity ) , to test the impacts of the composting process.
Click link in bio and follow us for more insights to our transformational journey. Stay tuned for the launch of Compost Computer on FutureEverything’s website in September 2025!
Funded by the Design Museum’s Future Observatory programme ( @designmuseum ), as part of the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI @weareukri ).
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As we embark on our Nature Directed journey, Webs of Justice - FutureEverything’s new Declaration of Responsibilities to Nature - will frame our Nature Directed commitment, our creative vision, and guide us towards centring just relations with technology.
Webs of Justice is a response to the urgent need to shift techno-scientific imagination beyond extractive and abstractive logics and instead support the flourishing of people and planet by foregrounding reconnection and repair.
FutureEverything is introducing a shared recitation of Webs of Justice at key team and Board meetings, alongside gratitude and attuning practices. The idea is that this will help us collectively work toward the bigger vision it holds and reflect on the power dynamics, logics and practices that underpin the obstacles to change.
Head to our website linked to bio to learn more about Nature Directed, our ground-breaking model that makes ‘Nature’ an active participant and a guiding presence in everything we do.
Webs of Justice image was designed by artist Yi Zhen Leong (@shirotenzhen )
#rightsofnature #nature #mulitspeciesjustice #accountability #technology
SYMBIOTIC RELATIONSHIPS: talks and workshops
during Meeting the Lough On Its Own Terms by Ami Clarke
Lucy Sollitt (previously Creative Director of FutureEverything)
in conversation with Ami Clarke
21st May 7-9pm
What does it mean to “meet the lough on its own terms”? And what role do art and technology play in this?
Join Lucy Rose Sollit and Ami Clarke for a conversation exploring this question in context of Ami’s artwork that emphasises a more than human, symbiotic approach and Nature Directed an initiative devised and implemented by Lucy while Creative Director of FutureEverything, which rethinks creative and organisational workflows so that the Web of Life is an active participant and decision-maker.
The conversation will look at how art and curatorial practices can be adapted to support the urgent work of reconnection and repair with our more-than-human kin, and the questions that emerge along the way - from who speaks for Nature and how, to how we interpret the myriad ways in which Nature “speaks” itself, and how we find a balance between human and more-than-human interests.
Lucy Sollitt (MPhil, BA Hons) is an experienced researcher and cultural programmer, specialising in innovatively merging art, technology, and ecosystemic change - for organisations including Serpentine Galleries, Goethe Institut, Arts Council England. Until April 2026, Lucy was Creative Director of pioneering art-tech organisation, FutureEverything, the first cultural institution to bring Nature onto its Board.
details: Meeting the Lough On Its Own Terms exhibition and Ami Clarke - open until 7th June:
Clarke was asked to join Friends of the Earth during the first algae bloom outbreak at Lough Neagh '23. Many conversations later it became useful for FotE to adopt her emphasis of meeting the lough on its own terms as an important step in establishing the Rights Of Nature. The work draws upon a collective writing project and conversations over 2.5 years with FotE NI and associates, druids, herbalists, campaigners, eco-lawyers engaging with ancient Irish Brehon Law, to tell of the multiple stories running through the Lough from a decolonial, more-than-human, microbial perspective.
FutureEverything, in collaboration with the @critical_climate_computing team at the @unioftheartslondon , is pleased to launch the final output of the Compost Computer project: a functioning microsite powered by compost!
working with artists @msmrgni and @shinjitoya , Compost Computer is a ground-breaking prototype that transforms bio-energy from compost into electricity. Literally regrounding technology in people and land. Located at @mud_cic in Manchester’s Platt Fields Market Garden, the server powering the microsite runs on the composting practices of its community gardeners, demonstrating how local, eco-social internet systems can reduce emissions and material use while building resilient infrastructure.
The microsite features two open-source toolkits created by CCC co-founders @wesleygoatley and @posthuman_eva , offering code, methodologies and practical guidance for anyone wishing to replicate or build upon the bioserver and low-carbon website models and approaches. We hope that this will be a source of inspiration and action for the future.
Click the link in bio to access the website and toolkits.
Please join us for a discussion on art and the environment, between James Orr (director) Friends of the Earth Northern Ireland, and artist Ami Clarke for ‘Symbiotic Relationships talks and events’, during the exhibition ‘Meeting the Lough On Its Own Terms’.
We will discuss the artwork that Clarke has developed over the last two and a half years alongside FotE, emphasising alternative ways of ‘sensing’ the lough, and expand upon the work that James and Friends of the Earth NI have been involved with over many decades as firm supporters of artful interventions in pursuit of fairer climate conditions for all, and in particular the eco-crisis of Lough Neagh over the past years.
The work responds to the situation in 2023 when Lough Neagh, the largest body of water in Ireland and the UK, became overwhelmed with algae blooms to such an extent that the vibrant green images of the blue green algae went viral, making international headlines. Two years on, the artwork was exhibited in Belfast at PS2 gallery, to coincide with the Lough becoming overwhelmed with algae blooms again (Tommy Greene The Guardian). Once a site of great abundance, supplying (as it still does) 40% of all drinking water to NI, with eel fishing famously being passed down across generations over centuries, the complexity of how the Lough became eutrophic presents a textbook case in converging dynamics of power, influence, and conflicts of interest. Whilst the project responds to the ecological disaster at Lough Neagh, it speaks to deeply entrenched larger environmental issues shared across the UK.
Artist Ami Clarke’s previous work on complexity in environmental concerns (The Underlying) meant that she was welcomed over to visit the Lough, and so began a two and a half year conversation. A shared interest in systems theory meant that FotE adopted an emphasis on ‘Meeting the Lough On Its Own Terms’, exploring ways of ‘sensing the lough’ whilst emphasising the Rights Of Nature, from a de-centred human (not de-valued), multispecies perspective, at the microbial scale.
#artandecology #artandclimatecrisis #meetingtheloughonitsownterms #microbial #friends_earth
Electric Echoes by interdisciplinary artist Maya Chowdhry, brings together a wide range of creative methodologies, from site-specific research and community facilitation to sonic excavations, countermapping and field recording. So how did this installation come into being?
Through her Decolonial Cleaning project, Maya worked with Stockport community groups, Culture Bridge, and the Hong Kong Fellowship to explore ways of attuning to the local environment and its more-than-human elements, and to investigate how we might better care for them, using a range of recording techniques:
🌱 Earth - creating sound from microcurrents of mycelium
🌬 Air - recording electromagnetic frequencies emitting from the electricity substation
🔥 Fire - turning light into sound
🌊 Water - recording sounds from water currents
Using hydrophones, Photon Smashers, and biodata sonification devices, participants created recordings that form the sound pieces you can listen to on the SoundWalk - from the River Goyt, through the site of the old power station, to the Stockport Air Raid Shelters, where the final sound installation can be experienced (for free).
Follow the link in bio for more information about the installation and SoundWalk, on in Stockport until March 22nd.
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Maya Chowdhry's 'Electric Echoes: A sonic argument between the River Goyt and Stockport’s power station' is now open!
This sonic argument unfolds across two sites. At the first, located in the Stockport Air Raid Shelters, visitors can activate a network of industrial pipes and hear echoes of the town’s former power station dominating the airwaves. At the second site, a SoundWalk following the flow of the River Goyt and its hidden tunnels, the river raises its voice in response.
Within the underground spaces of the Air Raid Shelter, the sound sculpture channels the electric pulse of the former power station. These currents form a score of an industrial past that has never fully “cleaned up” and that still resonates today through the river and the tunnels that once fed the station.
Featuring six touch-activated copper trumpets, their stems shaped to represent the network of tunnels, each uncovers a chapter in the turbulent relationship between the power station and the River Goyt.
The sound installation will be on display 19th February - 22nd March, 2026, with the SoundWalk availabile through the Echoes app during the same time. Admission is FREE, with advanced booking required. Click the link in bio to book your time slot.
This project has been produced by FutureEverything, commissioned by @stockportcouncil and Greater Manchester Arts (GM Arts), funded primarily by DCMS via @aceagrams Cultural Development Fund, GMCA Spirit and the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, and supported by community partners The Stockport Air Raid Shelter and Stockroom.
Creative Team
Commissioned artist: Maya Chowdhry (@maya_chowdhry
sculptural fabrication designer: Linda Devo (@lindadevoarts )
Coding: Billy Payne (@billyischilly )
Mastering: Caro C (@carocsound )
Audio created in collaboration with Culture Bridge and the Hong Kong Fellowship, Stockport. Images taken by @greenbrook_media
Our Creative Director, Lucy Sollitt, sits down with Ariel Waagosh to discuss their work together on Nature Directed and practices of remembering and restoring our relationships with human and more-than-human kin. Ariel, is an Odawa Anishinaabe attorney, "focused on world-building, on dreaming of what has been, and what can be, when we put life at the centre".
Head to the FutureEverything website (link in bio) for the full conversation to see how Ariel’s perspective has influenced our thinking at FutureEverything.
We’re delighted to share a new audio commission by experimental sound artist Flora Yin-Wong, created as part of our journey toward Nature Directed governance and in celebration of our 30th year.
Over the past year we’ve explored what it means to attune to and collaborate with Nature (the Web of Life). Working with global experts in multispecies justice, technology, art, decolonial practice and Indigenous knowledge, we’ve asked complex questions - like who speaks for Nature, and how we interpret the myriad ways in which Nature “speaks itself”.
Flora has transformed these conversations into a deep listening piece of voices, field recordings and subtle natural textures, with passages reminiscent of throat singing or ritual chanting that bring a spiritual undertone or otherworldly quality in line with her wider practice and FutureEverything’s new creative direction.
The work also nods to FutureEverything’s past. As we celebrate 30 years, we’re reflecting on our origins as an electronic music and technology festival known for championing experimentation, digital culture and underground sound.
Click the link in bio to find out more and to listen to the full 13-minute track.
#deeplistening #fieldrecording #attunment #morethanhuman #nature #ecology #rightsofnature
