During the past five years at this time, we were busy (a bit of an understatement) finalising our yearly residency program and festival in Älvsbacka.

This summer, we decided to take a pause for the festival: we all felt a need to rest and reflect upon how we can make a project like that in a way which is sustainable in terms of workloads and economics while not sacrificing our curatorial integrity nor the beautiful collective experience which we were facilitating.

So, the festival is on hold.

Meanwhile, for this year we're focusing on a shorter, more informal artist residency in August. These changes also give us the opportunity to try out new formats, like the Field Trip project which we introduce below, and to dig deeper into the network we've been building.

Read on, and you'll find a few ways to get involved.

This year we are organising a shorter residency which is running from August 15–30. We're bringing together a small group of artists—each of them also running their own curatorial projects. The idea is to create space for artistic work, but just as much for conversations about how we sustain the things we build. The outcomes of this years residency will be presented in Älvsbacka 29-30 August, more info will be published on our Instagram and

* * * Participating artists and team this year:

• Philip Coyne (UK / Netherlands), artist and independent organiser
• Seraina Grupp (Switzerland / Denmark), Transfer CPH (artist garden, Copenhagen)
• Leo Heinik (Germany), Ruine München (artist-run research collective, Munich)
• Sóley Sigurjónsdóttir (Iceland / Denmark), Platform BUNKER (exhibition space in Copenhagen)
• Joar Torbiörnsson (Sweden), Hybrida
• Giorgos Tsiongas (Greece / Netherlands), Hybrida
• Myrto Vratsanou (Greece / Denmark), Bladr (exhibition space and platfrom for artists' books, Copenhagen)

=== You're Invited: Networking & Sharing

Together with the region of Värmland we like to invite other artist-run projects in Värmland and beyond to join us on the late afternoon of 29 August. We will look at a presentation of the outcomes from our two-week residency, make new connections and share experiences through informal presentations, as well as a workshop about organisational structures and the realities of running a curatorial project. All in the midst of the beautiful environment in Älvsbacka with some good fika. If you are interested in attending, send us an email and tell us about your project: spacehybrida@gmail.com

The residency is supported by Region of Värmland.

This is a very special invite exclusively to our followers, and an introduction to a related project: a one-week retreat focused on creative exercises in combination with meditation and digital detox. The project also takes place in Älvsbacka, between 5–11 August. We offer this beta version of the retreat at a one-off price covering only expenses with a very limited amount of available spots.

If you've been longing for an adventure away from habits, expectations and the constant pull of your screen, this is your call...

See the open call and apply here
NOTE: Short deadline: July 7th.

We're navigating a time where art is increasingly instrumentalised from left to right, with shrinking budgets and less room for free creative processes –It's easy to feel that things are closing in. But we see this as a moment for rethinking, for finding new ways to make space, and facilitate art making: Hybrida has always been driven by the idea of "coming together", and we're determined to keep that spirit alive—even if we have to do it in smaller, quieter, more deliberate ways. We hope you'll join us in that effort.

We wish you a great summer!

We love to see how Hybrida Fest has evolved into a collective creation! The accumulated contributions of so many talented, open & lovely people enabled it this year, and made it into something very special, based on art, music & the genuine connections that have been established over the past 3 years. Here’s the links for the documentation of this year’s festival, as well as this year’s residency exhibition.

• Website - Jun Suzuki
• Graphics - Bin Koh
• Social media - Olof Ekman, Anne Sophie Ellegaard
• Music booking and programming - Basile Monsacré & Olof Ekman
• Stage and sound design - Markus Kilsgaard & Arthur Monsacré
• Screenings program - Myrto Vratsanou
• Workshop program - Myrto Vratsanou, Leen Horsford, Basile Monsacré
• Residency & Festival producer - Joar Torbiörnsson
• Residency Curation - Joar Torbiörnsson & Giorgos Tsiongas
• Kitchen - Myrto Vratsanou & Jonatan Torella
• Bar - Leo Herskovits
• Photography - Olof Ekman, Nora Lune & Michela Filzi
• Community & Volunteers manager - Leen Horsford
• All the volunteers, all the residency and music artists as well as locals and family that participated this year!

Hybrida Fest is a small festival that takes place the weekend after midsummer, by the forests and lakes of Östanås, Älvsbacka, where we welcome up to 200 visitors for three days.

For the third year in a row, we have curated an international program with a focus on art and electronic music, which includes DJ & live sets, performance and workshops. The old mill village in which the project takes place is surrounded by beautiful forest and lake, and is located forty-five minutes north of Karlstad. A festival ticket includes camping and nine homemade meals (breakfast, lunch and dinner) throughout the festival. The program also includes an art exhibition by the participants in our artist residency,as well as guided tours of the exhibition, and additional contributions from artists within our network.

The residency is carried out with support from Region Värmland, Byalaget Älvan, Karlstad Municipality and IASPIS.

Important dates:

Hybrida Fest:
● June 26-29
● Tickets & info:
www.hybridafest.info

Hybrida art exhibition:
● June 26- July 2
● Open daily: 1-5pm
● Free entrance
● More info:
www.hybrida.space
www.instagram.com/hybrida.space

In June 17 we have an open house between 2-5 pm; come and have coffee and meet the artists in the middle of their creative process.

Address: You will find our festival and exhibition by putting this address in you GPS: Östanås 610, 65598 Molkom

We received 300 applications to our open call in March, from which five artists were invited to join us from South Korea, Finland, Peru, Copenhagen, and Spain. They will spend one month in Älvsbacka working on individual projects, the outcomes of which will be shown in an exhibition at the end of the program.

This year's participants are:

Jaakko Myyri  
Jihyoung Han  
Sara Krøgholt Trier  
Piero Figueroa Bravo  
Javier Mars

The residency is supported by: Region Värmland, Byalaget Älvan, Karlstad Municipality and the Swedish Arts Grants Committee.

We are thrilled to simultaneously release a new open call, festival tickets, an internship position and this years festival volunteer forms.

We have a new open call for this summers artist residency, with a deadline April 7. Don’t wait with you application, we made the procedure super quick! See the open call.

-Our early bird festival tickets are now released, first come first served.. Our festival will take place 26-29 of June this summer. Find out more.

-We are looking for an intern that will join us in our work with social media and production this spring/summer. Read the work description.

-We also invite people who want to get involved the opportunity to join our festival community as a volunteer this summer. Join the team by filling in this form.

Next in our digital series is Rat237.The doomsday clock ticks to midnight. All social systems meltdown. Large parts of the world regress to a medieval social structure – while retaining and developing many of the technological systems of the early 21th century. The level 4 autonomous being tasked to find The Solution(TM) to the problem, goes rogue. After simmering in 7.7 petabytes of Mr. Beast content, the AI christen himself Jimmy9, and begins hosting grotesquely cruel, but fair, game shows for his empire of rats. 93 years after the catastrophe Rat237 travels to one of Jimmy9’s pocket worlds. The pursuit for the ultimate prize (a never seen before level of Unaltered Psychotic Freedom) begins.

Next in our digital series is Grandmamauntsistercat. Film created from archival materials of the Educational Film Studio in Łódź, tells the story of a matriarchal family through the eyes of a child grappling with the reproduction of ideological and representational systems. Originally created as didactic and propagandist tools in communist Poland, the footage is repurposed as a locus of auto-fictional memories, with their scientific register shifted towards a treatment of images themselves as specimens. The classic Slavic witch figure, Baba Jaga, is reimagined as a 'prehistoric goddess from the times of the matriarchy'. This transformation incites layered reflections on kinship and identity, as the child navigates binary gender roles. The women in the family find home within the archive, engaging in a process of self- and world-making, overturning the often sexist and anthropocentric images into tools of freedom and resistance.

Next in our digital series is Hardly Working, a work that sheds a limelight on the very characters that normally remain in the background of video games: NPCs. They are non-player characters that populate the digital world as extras to create the appearance of normality. A laundress, a stable boy, a street sweeper and a carpenter are observed with ethnographic precision. They are Sisyphus machines, whose labour routines, activity patterns as well as bugs and malfunctions paint a vivid analogy for work under capitalism.

Next in our digital series is Never Forget, a multi-channel, algorithmic novel by Jacob Broms Engblom.

Never Forget is a multi-channel, algorithmic novel compressing the visual realms of 9/11, the Avatar franchise and several Dreamhacks into lossy retellings of Chris Marker's La Jetée.

Expanding across several platforms and timelines, it generates worlds as mediums for hazy digital memories, channeling the splintered and mutating realities of the digital now.

Next in our digital series is On Location, a video by Rustan Söderling.

On Location presents as a dioramic stage play which unravels the history of a place known only as "The Site," tracing its evolution in reverse through a series of imagined historical ages. At the heart of this performance is a lecture delivered by "The Society," a group obsessed with cataloging every detail of the site. The true significance of The Site is never explicitly revealed, but the speaker's reverence suggests an almost sacred importance. As the lecture moves closer to the present, behind-the-scenes glimpses of the production reveal the artificiality of the performance, inviting the viewer to question the boundaries between reality and fiction. The film delves into the impossibility of fully understanding the past, highlighting the futility of freezing time or capturing the truth of any historical moment. The film playfully interrogates the construction of history itself, asking which narratives survive, who controls them, and how history, like some experimental stage play, is constantly rewritten.

Next in our digital series is you will always be a hyena... etc., a video work by Nicholas Korody.

you will always be a hyena... etc.is a 2015 video work based on the "The Unreality of Time," an essay by J. M. E. McTaggart, and "Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa," a biography by Charles Nicholl that chronicles the poet's "disappearance" in Africa. It has previously been exhibited at Six Month Space in New York and the Moderna Museet in Stockholm.

Next in our digital series is Item Falls, a film by Ryan Trecartin.

In Item Falls, we are peaking. We start out at a casting call, but before long we're firmly in the grip of hallucination, shedding our anxieties and evidently regressing to the animation era, a time when stunt chickens were mere chicklets. Friendly archetypes float in and out of what seems like our bedroom. The red-headed Jenny has returned, but this time she's squeaky and trusting. Unlike in Center Jenny, here our perspective is literally centered. The camera seems to be the in middle of the room, which is good, because we're too blissed out to move. Luckily, our hallucinations look directly at us.

Next in our digital series is Hashd0x, a work by Egor Kraft.

Hashd0x (spelled hæʃdɑːks) is a tactical software initiated by the artist in cooperation with a group of hactivists & software engineers. It is designed to combat disinformation by allowing instant & spoof-proof on-chain evidence capture and forensics tools through the registration of metadata and content hashing. The video-installation, called "Proof of War," features a film and custom-designed hand- and drone-operated cameras that utilize the software to capture a 3D model of the remnants of a house in the infamous Bucha Raion, a district in the Kyiv region. The images & videos used to create the photogrammetric 3D scan are hashed, registered, and stored on-chain using hashd0x's decentralized application (dApp). These records will be stored as blockchain data across a vast network of computers for potentially countless years, serving as a digitally sculpted memorial to the atrocities of present-day war crimes, forever preserved in our digital archives, uncorrupted, uncensored, and time-stamped.

Next in our digital series is Monad +, a video work by Dana Dawud.

Dawud's latest film Monad + situates webcam footage, projection mapping and texting both within the time space of the film and in the real time space outside, reformulating itself with each screening until Monad becomes fully saturated or until submarine internet cables stop working, whichever comes first.

Next in our digital series is The Drone Is The Message, a video essay by Jacob Hurwitz-Goodman.

The work was created in early 2020 as a respond to the U.S drone assassination of Iran's Qasem Soleimani, and remains highly relevant today. This thought-provoking piece examines the dual nature of drone technology as both instruments of state power and increasingly accessible consumer devices, emphasizing how these aspects intertwine to shape our perception and acceptance of drones in modern society.

Next in our digital series is Fragments On Machines, a film by Emma Charles.

The work reveals the physical framework and materiality of the Internet, a vast network often thought and spoken about solely in abstract terms.

The film will be available for viewing until October 4th.

Next in our digital series is Ultraface, a programmed film by Alex Murray.

Ultraface, initiated by artists GVN908 and Alex Murray, is a programmed film that renders in real-time. It dynamically assembles live footage from security cameras and sound from online databases.
--The video presented at hybrida.space is a render from 1 September 2024.

Our Digital Series presents a work every two weeks, spotlighting artists who primarily engage with digital mediums. The program delves into the essence of the digital format, exploring its impact on, and intricate relationship with, the physical world.

We are excited to introduce our brand-new website, a dedicated space for showcasing a diverse range of digital artworks and highlighting our location-based projects.