V2_ 45 Years | V2_Live: Still Unstable

Still Unstable

For 45 years V2 has been a space where artists, researchers and technologists come together to question, explore and experiment with emerging technologies. To mark this anniversary, V2 presents Still Unstable: a programme of exhibitions, talks, interviews and live performances exploring the hidden systems that shape technological innovation today.

Rather than looking back, Still Unstable looks ahead. In a world increasingly shaped by artificial intelligence, algorithms and digital infrastructures, the programme asks what remains unseen: the labour, resources, ecologies and power structures behind contemporary technologies, and how artistic practice can make these visible.

V2_Live
As part of the anniversary programme, V2Live: Still Unstable presents four experimental sound performances by artists working at the intersection of sound, technology and performance. Drawing on the spirit of the V2Live Residency programme, the evening brings together artists who develop their own instruments, interfaces and audiovisual systems.

The performances play with instability – of instruments, bodies and environments. Moving across underwater acoustics, revived early electronic interfaces and cyberpunk string instruments, each artist builds or reimagines their own tools to create the soundtrack of an uncertain world. Together, they ask what it means to listen and create when the ground keeps shifting.