2970° The Boiling Point is a happening of ideas underwritten by rigorous artistic practice.

Founded on NYID’s signature dramaturgy in which artists across art-forms and experts from social, scientific and academic fields from local, national and international contexts directly engage with curious publics through the language of arts practice, the methodology reflects the interconnectivity of disciplines, schools of thought and strategies of action.

We acknowledge the interconnectedness of all things, human and non-human. Our awareness of this is due to accelerated technological advances and how humans make sense of them in daily life. Our cultural response is simultaneously multi-faceted and rapacious. It is a process that rapidly creates new social spaces and knowledge gaps that need to be understood, communicated and filled. Unsurprisingly knowledge is now created and produced in a very different way. Its shape owes more to the matrix and the web than the silos of previous decades. And it’s driven by the concept of the ‘multiple’ which applies to manifestations such as cultures and companies, platforms and directions, thinking and policy.

The event’s ambition is to better understand our present tense so that we might positively influence our futures.