What route would you have planned to take to see the artworks if SIAF2020 had been realized?
You can encounter the artworks mapped on a map of Sapporo when you access the SAIF2020 matrix.

We hope that you will enjoy this fascinating SIAF2020 project that was never realized as an exhibition through this website “SIAF2020 Matrix”.
https://siaf2020matrix.jp/
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There is no need to plan a route.
“Eye” marks = Users, like you, are the people who are enjoying the SIAF2020 matrix right now.

How to
Click on “Start.
You will see “keywords” spreaded above the clouds.
You select a keyword and then, this website suggests your route around.
Click “Enter” and enjoy the speculative exhibition of SIAF2020.


SIAF2020 Matrix Concept
Sapporo International Art Festival
Curatorial Director of Media Art
Agnieszka Kubicka-Dzieduszycka

When SIAF2020 was cancelled we thought we ought to document and disseminate the work of artists, curators and the entire SIAF team that we’ve been able to carry out during the past two years. It became clear that we had to explain to and share with the audience what we had achieved even if our achievements couldn’t materialize as a real exhibition at all those inspiring venues across Sapporo.
I wanted to secure visibility for the work invested in the development of the concept. That was how the idea of documenting a speculative exhibition appeared.

We have decided to take that risk, and to invite the audience to stir their imagination about SIAF 2020 as a potential exhibition without directly experiencing the art. The absence of the artworks and the need to use other means of conveying complex thoughts encoded in aesthetic objects paradoxically showcase the power of art as such and its mysterious capacity to reach people’s hearts and minds, and to influence their ways of seeing and understanding the world.

We’ve decided to collect the available source materials, such as the existing drafts, texts, images, sound recordings, video sequences, and in some cases software.
All these compiled resources concerning unrealized ideas for SIAF 2020 shall serve as a structure for translating the key points of the original exhibition concept rendered in the title Of Roots and Clouds.
My idea for the online archive is to provide the audience with the documentation of the artworks and the artists’ concepts designed for the exhibitions at the various venues in Sapporo, but above all to foster a space for the audience’s speculation and imagination.
It shall offer traces and hints within an algorithmic environment, reflecting the ideas stemming from the curatorial concepts and the respective artworks.
The website visitors should be able to navigate their own way through SIAF 2020.
Our intent is to create a structure that will ensure as fluid and changeable an experience of individual paths through this archive of ideas as possible.
We’re not creating an online exhibition, but a matrix of a potential exhibition, a collection of documents to be read, viewed, and listened to in the absence of the artworks at their planned locations.

I’d like to encourage the readers to join us on these uncertain paths of speculation.