Listening with the Sea and the Stone + Toward Europe Thursday, 18 . 07 . 2019 . 6 pm Manja Ristić and Anamaria Pravicencu: Listening with the Sea and the Stone
Friday, 19 . 07 . 2019 . 9 pm K.u.u Uzgon: Toward Europe grey) (area – space for contemporary and media art presents new projects by two art collectives on July 18 and 19 in the Korčula town and its surroundings. Both projects take place while moving through different locations. Member of the Grey Area association, Belgrade-Korčula based musician Manja Ristić collaborates for the first time with a Romanian musician Anamaria Pravicencu. Together they will stage a premiere of the piece titled Listening with the Sea and the Stone, with which the attention is being directed towards creative listening. The piece will be performed through walking on the islet of Vrnik, and includes participation of the audience in the former ancient quarry. Together with the curator Darko Fritz, the artists met for the first time in Budapest last year, while taking part in the founding conference of the Central European Network for Sonic Ecologies (CENSE) Therefore, this piece is an immediate result of the activities of grey) (area within this network. The performance of the piece will also mark World Listening Day 2019 that has been taking place on July 18 since 2008, aiming at understanding the world and its natural environment, societies and cultures through the practices of listening and field recording. Gathering in Korčula at 6 pm in the City Park, and on the islet of Vrnik at 6.30 pm. The following day, on Friday July 19 at 9 pm in the Open Air Summer Cinema in Korčula the project titled Toward Europe by the cultural-artistic association Uzgon will be presented. In the frame of that project the team of artists and scientists aims at finding a new purpose to a Croatian donkey and therefore save it from extinction. The prepremiere of the documentary film in making under the title Cargo, whose research phase started four years ago when a group of enthusiasts decided to start the documenting of the new media project Toward Europe, will also take place. A part of the project is the cryptocurrency Toward Euro, an algorithm which has its physical base in the gold-plated donkey excrement that contains the RF chip with stored value of the currency at the moment of purchase, date of production, name of a producer, and the algorithm of the cryptocurrency. After the program in the Open Air Summer Cinema in Korčula a premiere of the performance "Hide the Sun" will take place in the form of walk in public space, accompanied with guerilla video projections and a sound. Entrance, participation and transport are free of charge. More info: http://sivazona.hr/events/slusanje-sa-morem-kamenem http://sivazona.hr/events/towar-kuu-uzgon ______________________________________________ SPECTRE list for media culture in Deep Europe Info, archive and help: http://post.in-mind.de/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/spectre