No Time Like the Present

As the window for climate resilience narrows, the environmental crisis continues to expose the profound inequities of the colonial power divide. Against a backdrop of global militarization and political shifts, there is an urgent demand for artistic practices that are not merely reflective but operational. "No Time Like the Present" - organized in cooperation with the Museum of Contemporary Art Leipzig (GfZK) - responds to this exigency by foregrounding situated, collaborative modes of working that reject artistic autonomy in favor of civic and ecological responsibility. The programme navigates this pressure through a constellation of concerts, workshops, and in-situ interventions. By dissolving the boundary between aesthetic experience and social process, the festival serves as a platform for artists, researchers, and activists to intervene in everyday realities. It positions the fraught contemporary moment as a critical site for structural transformation, cultivating the collective agency required to imagine and enact alternative futures.