bumped into laurent fintoni on twitter a while back and a delight to follow with all kinds of good stuff coming from him. one of the main things he's been planning and just launched today is original cultures which runs in balogna today through saturday. its a fascinating project and one that i hope to see being brought to dublin at some point soon enough. there is scope and need for something like this here. lets see what happens with this cultural exchange through the medium of modern performing arts in new and unique ways.
"There is an amazing wealth of talent, cultural diversity and traditions in modern performing arts in both Japan and Europe. However, for years language, distance and communication have made it difficult for artists in Europe and Japan to collaborate and for the intricacy and richness of the cultures to be properly exposed to the public outside of the respective countries. While the internet has helped to reduce the issue of distance, as well as language and communication to a lesser extent, there still lacks a real program of cultural exchange between Japan and European countries at the level of modern performing arts.
Original Cultures aims to create such a program through the development and implementation of activities
that form the basis of a regular Cultural Exchange Program (CEP) between the countries. All Original Cultures CEP activities will be documented and archived on the internet in multimedia formats to create an interactive and unique record of the ongoing cultural exchange."
artist bios here for dem, will barras, ericailcane, tayone, 2tall/om unit and tatsuki
many great orgs involved with collaborations from people like this:
Samurai FM (UK, Japan), Hear Japan (Japan, TBC) Paper Resistance (IT), Vinilificio (IT), T-Turn (IT), Spin Science (UK), Rhythm Incursions (UK), Turntable Radio (UK)
and media partners like this:
Radio Città del Capo (IT), Superfly Magazine (IT), Design(Radar (IT), Spannered
(UK), Samurai FM (UK, Japan), Rhythm Incursions (UK)
Follow it on the Original Cultures Live blog on shookmag
Timetable (if you can make it)
• Weds 3/06/09 + Thurs 4/06/09: Music and visual art workshops between artists. Time: 10am to 8pm.
Location: Spazio Si, Teatro San Leonardo, Ass. Arena Orfeonica
• Fri 5/06/09 - Music and visual art workshops between artists. Time: 10am to 1pm.
Location: Spazio Si, Teatro San Leonardo.
- Music and visual art workshops with students from Academia di Belle Arte e DAMS. Time 2pm to 6pm.
Location: Spazio Si, Teatro San Leonardo.
- Art and culture seminar with all Original Cultures artists. Time: 7pm to 9pm. Location: Modo Info Shop.
• Sat 6/06/09 - Original Cultures live showcase. Time: 8pm to 12am. Location: Spazio Si, Teatro San Leonardo.
other links:
http://originalcultures.tumblr.com/
More images from the site and of /by the artists, etc.
to top it off i guess i'll repost a real favorite tune of my, posted back in december '05.
'japanese mathematics' by sharpshooters.
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