From The Homelands to the Screen, New Radicalisms Festival, 2022

New Radicalisms is a four-day festival to explore shared identities, digital realities and cultures of the in-between. Widespread diasporic voices from or somehow relating to the WANA region (West Asia and North Africa) gather in Rotterdam to activate the starting question of this second edition: “but… where are you really from?”.

A common question to some, and a rare one for others, the festival is an opportunity to bring complexity to this sometimes endearing, but most of the time disorienting question. What would you rather be asked instead of “where are you really from?” What answers can be imagined instead of the ones expected? What are the definitions of belonging that can be proposed? How does your answer change depending on the context? How do our digitized personas allow for the disruption of this question?

Together alongside invited artists, designers, thinkers, musicians and activists, we invite you to join the hosted talks, lectures, workshops and performances and contribute to our shared festival space of thinking and being together.

𝗗𝗿 𝗥𝗼𝗺𝘆 𝗚𝗮𝗱 𝗲𝗹 𝗥𝗮𝗯 and 𝗦𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗵-𝗚𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗲 𝗠𝗮𝗻𝗸𝗮𝗿𝗶𝗼𝘂𝘀 explore the influence of the screen on concepts of guilt, trauma and visual journalism on us as diaspora.