This year’s theme, Sensory Cultivation, proposes a counterpoint to the disorientation of digital life. Informed by botanical cultivation, carrier bag theory, and feminist epistemologies, the summit invites a synesthetic approach to experience. Artists and practitioners are guided by an ethos of aisthesis—perception through feeling—foregrounding forms of knowing that emerge from interdependence, slowness, and non-hierarchical attention.

Highlights include sonic and ritual works by Woojae Kim and Rahul Nair, who blend handmade Korean percussion with improvisational poetics; Anna Ting Møller’s fermentation-based sound sculpture interfacing kombucha SCOBYs with temple-brewed miso; and Grace Villamil’s “LU Lock,” an excavation of interior sound as spiritual phenomena. The artist duo AYDO will host a lantern-making workshop inspired by pre-colonial Buddhist water rituals, while Anh Vo and Kristel Baldoz will offer a performance shaped by shamanic embodiment and queer ancestral memory. Other contributions include poetry, participatory installations, calligraphy, and mycological fieldwork by scientist and eco-philosopher Dr. Patricia Kaishian.

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