Offload Festival brought together international, national and local artists with a shared interest in creating playful, participatory and socially aware work that explores nature, sustainability and ecology. Offload Festival considered “systems for survival” through a series of events, talks, performances, screenings and online exhibition.

The festival took place in September 2007 across a range of venues and locations in Bristol. The festival featured the work, both physical and virtual, of artists that document, visualise or reveal the interconnections between different systems – social, economic, biological and political – and the implications these connections have for our everyday survival. Notions such as connectivity, interdependence, location awareness, everydayness, emergence and active participation, cut across the Offload programme.

The festival took an online focus in 2008. Visit the Offload Festival website for details of the events and exhibitions that took place and to view the online exhibition.

Watershed supported the festival and was a venue for some of the events in the 2007 festival.

Ended in September 2007

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