As the public project of ARTRA, the 2025 Global Talk will explore the theme of “Visual, Performance and Festival Arts”, initiating a deep dialogue on the innovation, openness, and integration of art festivals and creativity.

Since its establishment in 2023, "making art a truly open spiritual container" has been one of the core propositions of ARTRA. This talk hopes to connect domestic and foreign art and creative industry pioneers, such as the Manchester International Festival, the Liverpool Biennale, Dumb Type from Japan, Lucy Guerin Inc from Australia, etc., and use global experience to reflect local practices.

The talk has invited art scholar Gu Ling to be the host, with four major topics: balancing local culture and global discourse power; how to reconstruct the operation of art festivals with influencing factors such as technology; how to integrate visual arts and performing arts; how to achieve a virtuous cycle between artist creativity and art festival platforms, especially how to balance creative freedom and publicness in local creation.

At present, the infiltration of visual and performance breaks traditional boundaries. Innovative festivals and exhibitions in China are facing challenges of "homogeneous competition" and "loss of locality". Looking forward to the dialogue colliding with local pain points in China through diverse experiences, and refining the path of "differentiated survival", ARTRA is committed to collaborating with global pioneers to create new coordinates for future art, creating value through collision, and inspiring the future through dialogue.