Transgressive Memory Festival

What happens when memory refuses to be controlled? When archives malfunction, bodies remember differently, and history is no longer fixed—but addressed, reopened, contested, and rewired? The eCommemoration Festival 2026: Transgressive Memory invites you to step into a new terrain of remembrance, where media art, performance, and critical discourse collide to challenge how, why, and by whom the past is told.

Our festival proposes transgressive memory as both a method and a principle—a mode of remembrance that disrupts institutionalized rituals, blurs the line between documentary and fiction, and acknowledges technology’s role in shaping collective consciousness.

Drawing on the grammars of the digital—its glitches, loops, and new forms of archives and networks—artists and cultural practitioners are reconfiguring the aesthetics of remembrance. Their works mobilize image, code, and sound as insurgent languages that break open linear temporalities and establish spaces of multiplicity, contradiction, and ghostly return. Here, commemoration is no longer about the preservation of facts, but about activating relationships between bodies and databases, absence and algorithms, personal encounters, and public witness. 

Through performances, discussions, and an exhibition, we invite you to explore history and memory with us!