KKNK - Letters from the Future: Artists

Thank you for your interest in helping us to imagine the festival of the future!

Follow the guidelines below to create your letter/audio/image of the future and then click 'take part' at the bottom of the page to provide some information about yourself (optional) and  submit your contribution.

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​How To Create Your Letter

• Imagine that it is now the year 2030, and you have just performed or showcased your work at the KKNK.    Please write a letter from 2030 back to yourself in 2021, explaining what your experience of the festival was like.    For example, beginning like this: 
  

You can download all of these guidelines in a  PDF file here below:

KKNK artists participant brief letters from the future
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Dear X,
 
The year is 2030 and you have just performed at the KKNK. A lot has changed since you  performed at the festival in 2021! Let me explain how the festival works nowadays, ten years after Covid-19 turned everything upside down.

• In your letter/image,    you may wish to respond to some of the seven questions below. These questions are prompts to consider (you don’t have to answer them all!).
  

Please feel free to write your letter in any way that you would like to, allowing your imagination of the 2030 KKNK to develop in perhaps unexpected directions. These seven questions are meant to spark your imagination, not to constrain it.

1. How has the KKNK changed in the years since the pandemic began? And in what ways is the festival the same as before Covid? 
2. Where is the KKNK? Is it in the same location as before the pandemic? 
3.  Who is your audience? Has the audience changed, in terms of who the people are / the demographics? 
4.  How do you reach your audiences? Have performance formats changed? Do you still display work in a physical gallery space? Are you physically at the KKNK? 
5.  Imagine yourself creating a work for the KKNK in 2030: how has your creative process changed? Do you develop work (perhaps for new performance formats or artwork formats) through processes that you didn’t use before the pandemic? 
6.  What have you learnt about the value of the   KKNK? Is the festival important? Why is it important? Who is it important to? 
7.  Overall, have things changed for the better? Have things changed for the worse? Both?

 
Please feel free to make the letter / image as creative as you would like to!   

Remember that

• Your letter can be as short or as long as you like! 
• Alternatively, you are welcome to make an audio recording of your 'letter' , speaking back to yourself from  2030.   You are also welcome to create an  image of the festival in 2030, instead of a written or audio letter. For example, drawing a picture of the KKNK festival in 2030, or creating an image using  computer software.

Next Steps

• Once your contribution is  ready for submission, please  click on the  take part link here below
  
• We will provide further information on your participation and the ethics of the research  project before inviting you to upload your file
  

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• If you have any questions about the ‘Letters from the Future’ activity, or about the project overall, please contact us via the form at the bottom of this page or email  us at [email protected]
  

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