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BALAKLAVA ODYSSEY


The media art and performance festival Balaklava-Odyssey took 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.


Who

Location

Artists from nine countries – Ukraine, Russia, Romania, Poland, Hungary, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Great Britain - were invited to this pilot project. They staged art works in the areas of video, animation, multi-media, performance, experimental music and dance that dealt with the multitude of historical references in Balaklava.



Where

Location

This site, already mentioned by Homer in his Odyssey, is also the location of the myth of Tantalids and the famous play Iphigenia in Taurus (by Euripides, Goethe). On Khrushchev`s orders, in 1953, a submarine hangar was built inside the mountain of Taurus, that also served as a storage facility for nuclear weapons. Until 1995, Balaklava was hermetically sealed off.



Objective

Location

Now, the aim of the Balaklava-Odyssey is to culturally revive this site. The festival took place in the submarine hangar that today is used as a museum. It is meant to be the base for future cooperation in Balaklava.



Presentation

Location

At the moment five short films that document the festival as well as a catalogue of the festival are developed in Sevastopol. These materials will be presented during presentational events in the "Tesla" (Berlin), at the Media Art Association (Medienkunstverein, Dortmund) and in the Riff in the New Theatre in Halle (Neues Theater Halle) in 2007.



Film/DVD

Location

If you are interested in the DVD please write an E-Mail to info@balaklava-odyssey.com



CONTACT

 

Leadership. 

Sebastian Kaiser

ska@balaklava-oddyssey.com

+49 - 179 - 46 059 54

+38 - 0684 78 0650

 

Roman Markholia

» roman@balaklava-odyssey.com

+38 - 0692450141

+38 - 0684 78 0650

  

Press.

Sergej Normanskij

» press@balaklava-odyssey.com

+38 - 069 255 41 22

 

Alla Sodovskaia

» alla@balaklava-odyssey.com

+7 926 205 65 94

 

Administration.

Irina Konstantinova 

+38 - 050 6855547

 

A project of Laistrygon e.V. 

Director.

Hendrik Schumacher

» info@laistrygon.de 

+49 - 172 - 9447668


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