Dear colleagues and friends of HMKV,
despite the summer vacation we would like to
invite you to an amazing film and project
presentation on Saturday evening from 19:00 at
PHOENIX Halle Dortmund.
There will be music and visuals (and drinks)
afterwards and the exhibition "History Will
Repeat Itself" will stay open late at night
(until the events is over). Please also note our
changed opening times (Thu + Fr 11 - 22 hrs; Sat
+ Sun 11 - 20 hrs)
We look forward to seeing you at PHOENIX Halle!
Many greetings
Inke Arns
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(ad hoc translation!)
BALAKLAVA ODYSSEY
Film and project presentation
Hartware MedienKunstVerein
at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund
Saturday, July 7, 2007, 19:00 (c.t.)
http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/e_program_events/detail.php?nr=2478&rubric=events&;
Balaklava was the 'Gallic' village of the Soviet
Union which defied the class enemy during the
Cold War. Since the 1950s Balaklava, located at
the Southern tip of the Crimea, served as a
submarine base of the Black Sea Fleet. A
submarine hangar was built into the Tauris
Mountain directly at the bay - serving at the
same time as bunker and depot for nuclear
weapons. Balaklava was a highly secret facility -
so secret in fact that the entire settlement was
closed for visitors and civilians, and that it
even did not figure on Soviet maps.
It is thus that an important part of occidental
cultural history was rendered inaccessible.
Balaklava, in antiquity a Greek settlement, is
the setting for the myth of the Tantalids. In the
Odyssey, Homer mentions the bay, and Euripides
and later Goethe incorporated the myth of
"Iphigenie on Tauris" which is set in Balaklava,
in their theatre plays.
It was only with the collapse of the Soviet Union
and the dissolution of the submarine fleet that
Balaklava opened up again. As a prelude for the
cultural revitalisation of the city the Berlin
based Sebastian Kaiser organised an international
art festival in the former submarine hangar in
2006. At the same time he made a film about
"Balaklava-Odyssey" which portrays inhabitants
and veterans who served in the once closed city,
and presents the art event.
Many of the people Sebastian Kaiser interviewed -
among them high ranking officers of the Black Sea
Fleet and submarine captains - lived through and
today stand for the period of the Cold War, from
the beginning to its end. The life stories of
these people, today well advanced in years, shed
light on the mentality and the disintegration of
the Soviet Union. The film traces the historical
and cultural complexity as well as the opening up
of Balaklava - which reads like a parable of the
opening up of Eastern Europe after the Cold War.
The film and the project will be presented in
Dortmund on Saturday 7 July 2007, at 19:00 hrs at
Hartware MedienKunstVerein at PHOENIX Halle.
Curated by Sebastian Kaiser (Berlin)
Participants:
Joulia Strauss (Berlin)
Natasha Poloka (Moscow)
Dmytro Fedorenko alias Kotra (Kiev)
Svetlana Kazarina (Sevastopol)
Hendrik Schumacher (Berlin)
Aleksander Janicki (Krakow)
www.balaklava-odyssey.com
Funded by:
Kulturstiftung des Bundes
* * *
Currently on view at PHOENIX Halle Dortmund
HISTORY WILL REPEAT ITSELF - Strategies of
Re-enactment in contemporary (media) art and
performance
with 22 international artistic positions.
June 9 - September 23, 2007
Thu + Fri 11 - 22 hrs
Sat + Sun 11 - 20 hrs
More information:
http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/e_program_exhibitions/detail.php?nr=2104&rubric=exhibitions&;
* * *
VENUE:
PHOENIX Halle Dortmund
Hochofenstr. / Ecke Rombergstr.
Dortmund-Hoerde
How to get there / map:
http://www.hmkv.de/dyn/e_contact_roaddescription/
--
Dr. Inke Arns
Künstlerische Leiterin / Artistic Director
Hartware MedienKunstVerein
Güntherstrasse 65 * D-44143 Dortmund
T ++49 (0) 231 - 823 106
F ++49 (0) 231 - 882 02 40
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
www.inkearns.de
Don't miss these shows when travelling (to) Europe this summer:
/////// History Will Repeat Itself ////// Strategies of re-enactment
in contemporary (media) art and performance, HMKV at PHOENIX Halle
Dortmund/D, 9 June - 23 Sep 2007, www.hmkv.de
////// irational.org ////// Tools, Techniques and Events 1996-2006,
CCA Glasgow/GB, 16 June - 21 July 2007, www.cca-glasgow.com
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