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Syndicate: At Home Abroad Press Release #1 |
PRESS RELEASE PRESS RELEASE PRESS RELEASE Cesta presents At Home Abroad, August 19-23, 1999 in Tabor, Czech Republic 'At Home' Abroad is CESTA's fifth arts festival of cross-national interdisciplinary collaborations. The goal of the festival is to explore and collect reflections on adopted cultures from Im/E/Migrants, Refugees, Extra-legal and Resident Aliens, and Others making their homes on foreign soil. As world borders grow, change or disappear, the results are evident in movement: here to there, near to far, inside to outside. This is not a new occurrence, nor is it strange, yet foreigners remain strangers. Through 'At Home' Abroad we will take a look at our societies from the Other side by discussing and witnessing the experiences, rejections, losses, gains and illusions of these social voyeurs, these uninvited viewers. We will debate the placement of foreigners into non-participatory social categories and offer their descriptions as integral contributions to understanding our societies as a whole. Through the process of collaboration the artists themselves will also investigate the similarities and differences of their adopted cultures The participants chosen for At Home Abroad are: Ann Wizer (USA) installation Coiner (D) music, spoken word David fisher (GB) visual arts, music Florian Liebestedter (A) visual arts, music Oksana Filonets (UA) performance Liz Conacher (GB) installation B-Gene Company (NL) performance Emile Rasheed (AUS) new media Monica Schoenacker (Brazil) printmaking/ installation Iain Cook (C) audio Zid Theatre (NL) performance Tudosok (H/ YU) music Gabor Toth (H) music/ visual arts Igor Lazin (YU) visual arts/ video Walter Hollinetz (A) music Latin Lover Naughty Nordic Inc. (NL) performance Aleksandra Lopatic (YU) painting Katarina Soukup (C) media arts Sarajevo Drum Orchestra (BiH) music Svetlana Blagojevic (YU) sculpture Die Fabrikanten (A) adventurer artists Peter Arlt, Wolfgang Preisinger, Maren Richter, John Tylo Viva Yazon (Phillipines) painting/ video Thomas Belhom (F) music At Home Abroad Festival is supported by Pro Helvetia East/West Network, the Austrian Cultural Center in Prague, the City of Tabor. More information about the At Home Abroad Festival can be found at http://www.cesta.cz/tandt4.htm Cesta (Cultural Exchange Station In Tabor) is an international non- profit center established to foster cultural understanding and tolerance through the arts. We are a laboratory for alternative forms of cross-cultural communication. Since 1993, Cesta has concentrated its efforts on international arts festivals, community projects, group exchanges, residencies, and the development of an informational global network for artists in all fields of artistic expression and cultural production. CESTA Novakova 387, Tabor 39001, Czech Republic tel: (420) 361 258 004 e-mail: <cesta@mbox.vol.cz> http://www.cesta.cz ------Syndicate mailinglist-------------------- Syndicate network for media culture and media art information and archive: http://www.v2.nl/syndicate to unsubscribe, write to <syndicate-request@aec.at> in the body of the msg: unsubscribe your@email.adress