Balaklava-Odyssey. Media Art and Performance Festival. Submarine Hangar. Balaklava (Crimea, Ukraine), 04.-06. August 2006
http://www.balaklava-odyssey.com The media art and performance festival Balaklava-Odyssey is taking place for the first time in August 2006. Balaklava, the site of the event, is situated in Crimea (Ukraine) and has been a European cultural site for over 2500 years. Artists from eight countries - Ukraine, Russia, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Switzerland, Austria and Germany - are invited to this pilot project. They will stage art works in the areas of video, animation, multi-media, performance, experimental music and dance that deal with the multitude of historical references in Balaklava. This site, already mentioned by Homer in his Odyssey, is also the location of the myth of Tantalids and the famous play Iphigenia in Tauris (by Euripides, Goethe). On Khrushchev`s orders, in 1953 a submarine hangar was built inside the mountain of Tauris, that also served as a storage facility for nuclear weapons. Until 1995, Balaklava was hermetically sealed off. The festival is taking place in the submarine hangar that today is used as a museum. It is meant to be the base for future cooperation in Balaklava. The project is founded among others by: European Cultural Foundation (ECF), German Cultural Federal Foundation (Kulturstiftung des Bundes), Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen (IFA), Austrian Kulturforum Kiev, Polish Institute, Wro Center for Media Art Leadership: Sebastian Kaiser (Berlin) and Roman Markholia (Moskau, Sevastopol) A project of Laistrygon e.V. Director: Hendrik Schumacher Hendrik Schumacher Laistrygon e.V. http://www.balaklava-odyssey.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://coredump.buug.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre
