Opening TEC ART Festival 2026

In honour of the TEC ART Festival, Nieuwe Instituut is hosting the opening event and film screening featuring the Dutch premiere of the latest film by Kevin B. Lee entitled Afterlives, including a word of welcome by Sanneke Huisman and Guido Bertling.

From 26 March until 29 March, TEC ART Festival is presenting a pop-up exhibition Learn to Love the Bomb, transforming Museumpark into a temporary “military base” filled with art installations. In the large-scale group exhibition, artists react to the social, political, and technological systems shaping the war-driven world of the 21st century. Set in the heart of a city that was bombed in the past, Learn to Love the Bomb drags war out of your screen and into the public space.

(Kevin B. Lee, 2025) is a feature-length desktop documentary that delves into the historical and digital traces of extremist propaganda, questioning how images of violence circulate, mutate, and persist. From museum archives to destroyed artefacts resurrected through 3D scanning and AI-generated reconstructions, Afterlives traces how power structures, spanning from the colonial past to the digital present, govern what is seen, what is erased, and what survives.

Kevin B. Lee has produced nearly 400 video essays and is a pioneer of the “desktop documentary” format. He is the Locarno Film Festival Professor for the Future of Cinema and the Audiovisual Arts at Università della Svizzera italiana.

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