ESC 2035 (I): The world paused.
‘… the world paused. Nobody’s here, but something still is. The systems haven’t shut down completely: screens, wiring, dust, and light still translate motion, heat,
December 23, 2025: This is a recent check-in from 0—1
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Next ESC 2035 exhibitions:
— the world paused. / opens on January 9, 5-8 PM, at Quartair, The Hague (→)
— we kept going. / opens on April 10, 5-8 PM, in collaboration with At Sunset, The Hague
— we never changed. / TBD
Open call: ESC 2036. Calling all contemporary artists. Deadline: April 20. — apply here (→)
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‘… the world paused. Nobody’s here, but something still is. The systems haven’t shut down completely: screens, wiring, dust, and light still translate motion, heat,
Roaring Into Being marks the final phase of ESC 2034’s evolving study into digital futures, concluding a conceptual trilogy. It traces a trajectory from subtle
The ESC 2036 open call is on — let’s go. Each year, ESC invites artists to imagine roughly ten years ahead, keeping in mind the pressure points of now: climate change, extraction, life in a system, and what it means to remain human inside all that. ESC moves between default futures and alternative ones, building an ongoing story about humanity — or its absence — in this world. Since 2020, we have looked for projects at the edge of nature and technology, tracing how they exist in bodies, cities, and shared environments. Each edition becomes a snapshot of futures imagined through artists’ views. What happens if we follow the signals of today forward? Think of weather systems, oceans, forests, and the infrastructures around them, then of humanity and its tools.
Dominic Kießling builds with the basics: foil, heat, air, and gravity. The studio runs on quick setups, short cycles, and data from failed tries. Coincidence matters. He lets things go
Interventions by Willem de Haan offer unexpected detours from the high-speed blur of daily life, lifting eyes from the gravity of screens and schedules. To stage these pauses, the Dutch
Eric William Carroll treats photography as a material experiment rooted in daily surroundings. Midwestern upbringing shapes his resourceful approach, while a floodplain greenway in Asheville, North Carolina, serves as both
Candela Capitán grew up at Andalusia’s Atlantic edge with ballet toe shoes in the dial-up-modem era. Born in Seville in 1996, she first trained in classical technique at the Cádiz
Zorg Ltb is a French graffiti artist who’s been painting walls and roaming city edges for over fifteen years. Affiliated with the LTB crew, he combines fractured faces, letter structures,
Joshua Ellingson lifts weathered CRT screens (the glass picture tube inside older TVs and oscilloscopes) with the care one reserves for living creatures. A working CRT emits a thin, high-frequency
