Escaping forward is an ambiguous procedure, involved both in what is behind and what has been just before. In the name of these ambiguities - or even more so: these dualities – for the opening of the Festival we invited an Artist with an extraordinary ability to locate the entanglements of reality through small stories and snapshots. However, these are not catastrophic complications - underneath you can always feel a sense of meaning: in life, beauty, love.

Kae Tempest manages to talk about the world in both an extremely precise and poetic way. They combine spontaneity and rap melody with silence and minimalist tenderness. Their latest album "Line is a Curve" balances between a personal manifesto and collective responsibility, between searching for oneself and the unbearable burden of form. This is a story not about the need for continuity, but about cyclicality - of time, relations, love. About the fact that you cannot rely on once defined truths that appear objective. About how there is nothing wrong with giving in to feelings you used to run away from. This is a story whose beginning is the end - completely different than one might think.

The Line is a Curve, Kae Tempest pdf