A sense of disequilibrium is perhaps the defining symptom of our moment. From the dizzying heights of multiple peaks—oil demand, extraction, environmental debt, ableist infrastructure, inequality, corporate consolidation, commodification—the contradictions of industrial society have reached their tipping point. Against this queasy backdrop of global conditions, Creamcake’s 3hd 2025 tilts toward the theme of “Vertigo” with a festival that pulls focus on this perceptual, embodied, and phenomenological experience of disorientation. While some encounter these states as responses to our current crisis, others navigate them as part of their ongoing lived experience. This year’s program runs across venues in Berlin from October 1 to 5, and gathers artists, musicians, and performers whose practices explore strategies of self-preservation and resilience within the sensory overload of complex and oppressive reality.
