The Symposium is one of the key programmes of Sonic Acts Biennial 2026, a place to sharpen the ideas that underpin the main theme and direction, Melted for Love. Over two days, artists and thinkers explore how love, technology, and sound shape our sense of belonging.

Philosophies of Displacement looks at rootlessness as a condition of our time, exploring feelings of disconnection, drift, and modes of confronting capitalism and its technological infrastructures.

Philosopher Yuk Hui, known for his influential concept of ‘cosmotechnics’ – which rethinks technology through non-Western philosophical frameworks – reflects on ‘becoming-homeless’ as a condition endemic to our age, in which global capitalism and environmental crisis erode our sense of belonging. His talk imagines home differently: across multiple worlds and ways of being.

Writer and theorist Flavia Dzodan follows with Affective Logistics, examining how digital infrastructures capture and direct emotion as if it were cargo. Tracing the histories of command systems and domestic optimisation, she listens for the noise that slips through – the emotions that cannot be measured or contained.

Yuk Hui and Flavia Dzodan’s presentations will be followed by a Q&A moderated by Hugo Esquinca.

Yuk Hui’s lecture is realised as part of New Perspectives for Action, a project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union. Flavia Dzodan’s lecture is realised by Paradiso and Sonic Acts as part of the same funding scheme.