Klaipeda: October 2014

The trans-Russian net project “9000 km” is a cooperation of curators from cultural and educational national institutions from 8 Russian regions, the representatives of “Russian diasporas” in the countries of the former Soviet Union and abroad.9000 kilometers is a distance from the western to the eastern border of Russia. The kilometers of geography of the “one fifth part of the land” that is united rather by territory, by regions, than by economy and politics.

The project “9000” emerged from the aspiration to reflect the new artistic geography of each region, demonstrate their cultural components and also to comprehend the common artistic “ideogram” that would be identical to the contemporary condition of “the big fatherland” that is both European and Asian, liberal and conservative, centralized and provincial. In every region was formed a creative group that represented artistic or social “brand” of its “place”.

Regional «brands»:

Kaliningrad - «Foreign Territory»

St.Petersburg - «How to Survive in a Monument»

Moscow - «The Ownerless or Suspicious (Metro)»

Nizhny Novgorod - « Empty place»

Perm - «Secret Experiments»

Yekaterinburg - «Delicate Industrial»

Kurgan - «People behind the Verge of the Nervous Breakdown»

Novosibirsk - «Infantile disease of leftism in the contemporary art of Novosibirsk»

Kemerovo - «Miner’s Day»

Krasnoyarsk - «Depth»

Vladivostok - «That’s the limit»

Bishkek - «Lost Paradise»

Prague - «Learn Russian, We'll Be Back!»

New York - «Invasions»

Organizers:

The Baltic Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts (Kaliningrad, Russia)

The Centre for Contemporary Arts «Laznia» (Gdansk, Poland)

Klaipeda Culture Communication Centre (Lithuania)

Curator:

Evgeny Umansky (BB NCCA, Kaliningrad)

Coordinators:

Agnieszka Wołodźko (CCA «Laznia», Gdansk),

Ignas Kazakevicius (KCCC, Klaipeda)

Financial support of the project:

European Union, Lithuania-Poland-Russia ENPI Cross-border Cooperation Programme 2007-2013

Participants:

Kaliningrad: E. Umansky, Yu. Vasiliev, A. Chebykin, E. Palamarchuk, group «Obshchee vzdragivanie», group “Karpenko&Karpenko”

St.-Petersburg: D. Shubin, A. Ustinov, D. Pilikin

Moskow: V. Korchagin, V. Orlov, A. Mitlianskaia, D. Gutov, A. Plutcer-Sarno

Nizhny Novgorod: group «PROVMYZA», N. Oleinikov

Perm: S. Stakanov, S. Teterin

Ekaterinburg: O. Bliablias, group «KudaBegutSobaki»,V. Seleznev, group «Ne s ruki», V. Davydov, Den Marino, group «SISTRA», A. Shatunov, A. Mazurenko, M. Razheva, V. Oborotistov

Kurgan: V.Osadchy, D. Gabitov, V. Cheban

Novosibirsk: D. Bulnygin, group «Sinie nosy», group SAT

Kemerovo: group PNK, V. Goriaev

Krasnoyarsk: D. Kuharenko, O. Ampilogov, O. Ponomarev, V. Sachivko

Vladivostok: E. Nikitina, M. Pavin, E. Makeev, K. Solo, I. Fomicheva, L. Zinatulina, L. Kozmina

Bishkek, Ky`rgy`zstan: U. Dzhaparov, G. Bokonbaev, G. Kasmalieva, M. Dzhumaliev, Joeshua, A. Shindin, E. Mel`dibekov

Prague: V. Magid, V. Artamonov, A. Kliuikov

New York: E. Fiks, M. Rakovitc

Contacts:

Yevgeny Umansky: (BB NCCA, Kaliningrad) umansky@ncca.koenig.ru, +7 906 234-40-68

Links: http://9000.ncca-kaliningrad.ru/

The Lithuania-Poland-Russia European Neighbourhood and Partnership Instrument Cross-border Cooperation Programme 2007-2013 aims at promoting economic and social development on both sides of the EU-Russian border, addressing common challenges and problems, and promoting people to people cooperation. Under the Programme, legal non-profit entities from the Lithuanian and Polish border regions, and the entire Kaliningrad oblast implement joint projects co-financed by the EU and the Russian Federation.

This publication has been produced with the assistance of the European Union under the Lithuania-Poland-Russia ENPI Cross-border Cooperation Programme 2007-2013. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of the Baltic Branch of the National Centre for Contemporary Arts and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union.