OPEN CALL / invocation
From May 1 to June 15
RITUALS OF RE-EXISTENCE
8th Sur Aural Festival 2026 – Open Call
“Re-existence is neither a return to the past nor an abstract utopia: it is a situated praxis born of pain and desire. It is the way in which Black, Indigenous, peasant, trans, and migrant communities reshape their lives in the face of war, poverty, and neglect, creating alternatives that affirm their right to exist on their own terms.” (Walsh, 2012)
Sur Aural invites you to create rituals of sonic re-existence: practices that affirm life, radical tenderness, and the communal in the face of violence and erasure. A call to reclaim collective power and re-exist through love, care, and everyday micropolitics.
We leave this invocation open and invite you to join this collective vibration!!!!
We find ourselves at a very particular moment in the human project on Earth, living through a total institutional and representative collapse, with virtually infinite global debt, and bloody wars and massacres on multiple fronts—led by a dying empire that is attempting to expand before it disappears. A frantic and irrational era in which the resurgence and consolidation of the far right and the Zionist dream have taken over all the narratives disseminated by the traditional media. Spaces where climate change and the ecological impact of consumer society are downplayed and denied, just as dictatorships and human rights violations are in many aspects of our future. This fuels a drive to roll back and erase in record time the “advances” that were so hard-won through the social struggles of the past. At times it seems as though the whole world is on a bad trip, in a nightmare, from which we have forgotten how to wake up.
The time to resist and stand up against the tide of this fascist wave has passed. Lulled to sleep and distracted by endless doom-scrolling and the deliberate, calibrated sensory overstimulation of algorithms designed for mass control, have made us lose the battle. Or so it seems. The time has come to re-exist and reclaim our scattered focus, our damaged attention. We must remember and create non-hegemonic forms of knowledge that fuel disobedience, so that we may awaken and break free from the notion that there is only one valid way to inhabit and understand the world. We must look beyond the paradigm of development and progress, beyond the glowing screen that flickers before our eyes.
Now in its 8th edition, Festival Sur Aural invites you to create and share rituals of sonic re-existence, allowing us to reclaim ways of being that have been denied by the social project of unbridled capitalism and its neocolonial ambitions. Rituals that remind us once again that power does not lie at the top, but with those who break their backs generating value, which is then commodified and capitalized upon by a select few. Rituals that help us connect with the power of gentleness and radical tenderness. Rituals that allow us to rediscover the courage and strength that lie within us and in the practices that nurture and sustain life, from our everyday lives and our communitary praxis.
The time has come to set aside all fear, to look beyond the walls of illusion, and to rise up to create beauty, care, and meaning where structural violence has sought to erase them. To elevate our thoughts and actions through the micro-politics that emanate from the voice of every person, from every interconnected sentient heart. The time has come to reclaim everything that the coloniality of knowledge has silenced and to recover what has always been—and always will be—at the heart of it all: the love of life.
Sur Aural invoques you to join in a Radio Ritual for life, love, gentleness, and radical tenderness for the RE-EXISTENCE of the peoples of the Earth.
