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1 mi2 – ONE SQUARE MILE
Musician Stergin’s newest project is an artistic initiative of promoting empathy & listening to each other in our ever so divided societies. Very personal conversations with people who live within 1 mi2 of the artist will inspire new musical compositions. In the past 20 years our societies are drifting further apart.The endless stream of information & misinformation on our devices makes it harder & harder to distinguish what is what. Sometimes it seems that everything has lost its meaning. The goal is to grow the project & find musicians/artists in each country of the planet who will follow the same process: interview someone in their own mi2 & create an artistic reaction to it. All these interviews & creations will then be shared on a website & then turned into a travelling exhibition. 1 mi2 I willl send a positive message from and into our communities and promote listening to each other and empathy. This starts in front of our own front doors. Website: http://www.on...
Read moreCulture 16. März 2021
Artificial Museum
Our mission is to create, procure, research, distribute, and preserve digitized art of a wide variety of artistic fields. At its core, the *Artificial Museum* challenges the status quo and creates new perspectives of the term museum, rethinking the questions ’what is art?’ and ‘who perceives it’. There are more artworks by dead men stored in museums than can be exhibited. What remains is the virtual, imaginary area, in which there is also an almost infinite amount of space. Instead of continuing to practice the status quo of art in “temporary used” spaces, we decided to just use the space between the worlds on a permanent and self-determined basis, as an experimental playground for reawakening imagination in public space. We resolve this through a decentralized platform using *AR technology* in public space, making gps-anchored artifacts accessible to everyone, both at home and abroad. Our 'building' is based on public participation that can inscribe itself anywhere an...
Read moreCulture 6. August 2021
Caring Infrastructures- “Catalog of Possibilities”
Investing the potential of the public space, during the pandemic and beyond. This is an exhibition dealing with the public space during which we lunched a “CALL FOR IDEAS” for project realizations in Austria and Tel Aviv. Asking questions like: What is your idea for the resilient city of tomorrow? How can we use the public space collectively in this “NEW” normality? Which places can support us in taking care of each other? This project is a collaboration of feld72, the Liebling Haus, the Tel Aviv municipality and the Austrian cultural forum.
Read moreCulture 14. März 2021
Cross-Border Sound for Persons with Disabilities
The objective of the project was to foster cultural and art creation of young people with disabilities in the field of music, by using new technologies and enabling their active role in the cultural life of the community in the cross-border area. Implementation of the project was enable young people with disabilities a chance to actively participate in cultural and public events in their communities. They have become more visible and the project contributed to the creation of positive attitudes towards people with disabilities and removing of psychological and social barriers.The organized events and performances enhanced the participation of the person with disabilities in the life of their communities making them less subject to discrimination trying to solve some of their basic problems
Read moreCulture 23. Mai 2021
Cultural and Innovative Tourist Center
I am Denys Kabanenko, head of the non-profit public organization School of Robotics «Forward to the Future», located at Zaporozhye, Ukraine. I present a project of Culturally and Innovative Tourist Center with a clock of Unity at Zaporozhye Ukraine as a plan or reconstruction of the urban square. Purpose: 1. Main Cultural and Tourist Place of the City - 1 km Zaporozhye. 2. The place of meeting citizens. 3. Pointer of Time, the largest in Europe 12 meters. 4. Center of culture - the area of professions and workshops. 5. Children's circles. 6. City Museum. 7. Observation platform. 8. Center of ethnic groups. 8. Toilet. 9. Waterfall. 10. Cafe. 11. Ecological design and technology. Additional main quirks: 1. Changing the shape and length of the clock hands - as in the painting by Salvador Dali. 2. Autonomy - will run on solar and wind energy. And much more. Sphere: public space, tourism, leisure, innovation, energy efficiency. We hope that this project will become a center th...
Read moreCulture 31. Dezember 2021
Dancing Trees
The Project Dancing Trees attempts to answer the question of what artists and theatre makers can do to sensitize the community to respond to one of the greatest crises that humanity has ever faced: the crisis of disappearance of a healthy living environment whose direct symptoms are climate change and one of the main causes of it- deforestation. Dancing Trees is a project which consists of dance theatre production and set of activities. DAH Theatre's production will take place in the open air —at the Student Park in Belgrade. The production is a poetic way to engage the importance of forest protection, without which our living conditions are deteriorating daily. Seven actors/dancers will perform in it, while the original music score will be created by a renowned composer, Ivana Stefanovic. This project aims to sensitize the audience and incite civil initiatives that will stop excessive tree cutting that we are witnessing as of lately.
Read moreCulture 28. April 2021
De Structura
DE STRUCTURA’S goal is to empower young people in the arts and to provide them with the tools to, on the one hand, be successful in pursuing a meaningful career, and on the other, bringing innovation to an environment daunting for newcomers. Leading the project is a team of young artists and art professionals, who through first- hand experience understand how difficult it usually is to build a meaningful career in the sphere of arts and culture. What is the problem? One’s decision to become an artist or an art professional is often challenged by numerous questions. “Art is a hobby, not a profession, shouldn’t you choose something more sensible?” “It is a vocation for the wealthy and the elites, they will never let you in. Do you want to deal with this cruel reality?” “How are you going to pay your bills or get health insurance?” Being bombarded with such questions externally as well as internally, a lack of understanding of the institutional structures of the art world an...
Read moreCulture 31. Dezember 2021
Music Safari
Why not mix up the music of different communities who live around Vienna? We bring normally boring public space to life, on a small budget, & give a Grätzl something to talk about. For Music Safari, dj Eugene (from London) plays open air, with music reflecting all the people who live nearby. With his city-storytelling group Whoosh, he takes locals on a dance adventure. After visiting a local school for research, the dj entertains the neighborhood with Turkish, Bosnian, Ukrainian, Roma, African, Bollywood & Austrian tunes. Anyone can ask for a special song they’d like to hear. Residents start to dance, & are surprised to hear ‘their’ music played by a Brit, & alongside other styles. It allows local children to lead the dancing, showing each other the right steps & moves. It helps validate their culture, & shows that those tunes don’t just belong at private house parties or weddings, but also out on the streets of Vienna.
Read moreCulture 6. Mai 2021
Music for All
The main issues that the project wanted to tackle are insufficient cultural cooperation among young people in the Western Balkan region and lack of motivation to get to know culture and society of neighboring countries. Also the project wanted to encourage participants to get to know the musical heritage, culture and history of other nations, to create space for mutual learning and cultural cooperation young people with disabilities from Serbia and young people from Albania through active participation in music workshops and performance. An innovative part of the project is the use of technology to include young people with disabilities in the cultural life of the community and thus encourage them to participate in other aspects of life and overcome social barriers and prejudices.
Read moreCulture 21. Mai 2021
Ngbaka EP
FULU MIZIKI roughly translates as “music from the garbage”, which in a literal sense is an accurate description of the thrillingly chaotic eco-friendly Afro-Futurist collective. The instruments they design, build and play are masterclasses in upcycling. From guembris built out of computer casing, to jerry-can drum-kits, keyboard inventions from wood, springs and aluminium pipes, and old flip-flops used as pads by plastic tube-wielding percussion players, the Democratic Republic of Congo-formed group’s ethos lies in the respect of nature, the celebration of its gifts and the importance of its preservation through environmentalism. The band explain on new single 'Bivada' - “This is for the man who walks without shoes in the middle of the bush to find food for their loved ones, this is for the Congolese women who have lost their lives trying to protect and raise us. This is to all the standing and fallen men and women around the world who wake up with nothing but manage to find f...
Read moreCulture 7. Oktober 2021
On equals: Only your talent makes you special
According to the State Statistics Service of Ukraine the number of people with disabilities of working age is about 2.7 million, of which only 26% are employed. Therefore, the project "On equals" was created that progressed towards resolution of this problem: 1. a sociological study was conducted; 2. an informative and educational campaign is being carried out on social networks; 3. we shot public service videos and a short film about the active life and work of people with disabilities; 4. we developed an online platform that collects vacancies from various fields for people with disabilities. Why is there a need for a separate platform? In an ideal world, any vacancy is equally available for everyone, namely for people with needed qualifications and experience. Unfortunately, the situation in Ukraine is different. Based on the experience of nongovernmental organizations engaged in the employment of people with disabilities, there is a tendency for people to be more encouraged...
Read moreCulture 15. September 2021
Plantstation
My name is Marta Kluba. I am a design graduate from Poland. I have played the violin since I was a child. As an adult, I have been looking to connect music, new technology and design, trying to channel people's thinking into climate issues. In my work I try to put emphasize on climate changes and the power of nature which can change people's lives and make them much happier. First, I have designed an instrument for plants, Fasola si do. It is a wooden box with metal wires, containing electronics. The instrument is programmed to play violin sounds for plants. For my master deegre project I have designed a modular installation, Plantstation, where I cooperated with a music composer, scientists, craftsmen and an IT programmer. Having obtained sponsorship helped me to bring the project into effect and create a working prototype of the installation. To me, music is an enormous, exciting and emotional medium. Combined with new technology, music can create extensive possibilites, ...
Read moreCulture 9. August 2021