Dates:
Fri, 11 Sept 2026, 18:30–23:00
Polaris – Music Between the Poles
This year, Ars Electronica’s Big Concert Night unfolds as a multimedia Gesamtkunstwerk. Staged across three concert halls, visitors move between strikingly different concerts and performances, each performed several times throughout the evening so that audiences can experience them in shifting constellations and atmospheres.
Polaris—the pole star and fixed point of this constellation—embodies the festival’s guiding theme: the question of what it fundamentally means to be human, of “conditio humana.” It’s a question we can only approach by looking past the polarity of opposites and understanding them instead as expressions of their complementarity. Throughout the evening, music and art form a constellation in which opposites meet and come into contact with one another, their gravitational center found in the spaces for play and freedom that they open up.
ORBIT – A War Series is an immersive 3D audio space oratorio by composer Brigitta Muntendorf that confronts the vehemence of war and oppression, and the violence and contempt for humanity underlying them—through a powerful combination of contemporary technology and artistic mastery. Alongside it stands Polaris, the latest Pianographique production by Maki Namekawa and Cori O'Lan, offering a distinctive take on the music of Philip Glass, whose compositions have become, for many, a timeless soundtrack of our present moment. Drawing on piano arrangements by Philip Glass himself as well as by Michael Ries...
Cost: The Big Concert Night is exclusively included in the FESTIVALPASS+ and is not available as a single ticket this year.
Bookings: https://ars.electronica.art/negotiatinghumanity/en/tickets/#festivalpassplus
Categories: Concert
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