[rohrpost] Sans Frontieres - opening

[Kunstradio]

October 4th - 17:00 STP - 15:00 CEST - 13:00 GMT

Sans Frontieres - Opening
Live on line and on site
by Robert Adrian X and Eva Wohlgemuth

on line: http://www.sansfrontieres.mur.at
on site: Quo Vadis, Nevsky Prospect 24, St. Petersburg

SANS FRONTIÈRES is about the traditional migration each autumn of more than
250,000 Rooks (Corvus Frugilegus Frugilegus) from Russia and Eastern Europe
to Vienna and other parts of Central and Western Europe. The sight and
sound of vast squadrons of up to several thousand birds flying in waves
over the city as they return to their roosting places on a grey winter
evening is an unforgettable part of the of the winter city-scape in Vienna
and other cities of Central Europe.

SANS FRONTIÈRES is constructed in 3 parts or versions: 1. the installation
in St.Petersburg, 2. the web site and 3. the radio broadcast.

INSTALLATION - Opening October 4th
VIDEO - The video recordings (Robert Adrian, Eva Wohlgemuth, Martin
Rössler) of the Rooks in the parks, trees and skies of the city have been
edited into 6 loops (each approx. 9 minutes long) and burned as DVDs to
play continuously. Each sequence is displayed on a separate monitor
installed in the windows of the Quo Vadis cyber café, Nevsky Prospect 24,
St.Petersburg.

AUDIO - The sound recordings (Martin Leitner) will be used both for the
Kunstradio broadcast and as the sound for the installations. The sound for
the installations will be edited into 6 separate 10-15 minute tracks. The
tracks will be looped to play continuously, each from a separate
loudspeaker mounted on the facade of the Quo Vadis cyber café.

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INTERNET
Die SANS FRONTIÈRES home page has been designed and programmed by Robert
Adrian und Eva Wohlgemuth. The Website is conceived as an integral part -
and archive - of the project and includes:
- sound and videofiles from the SANS FRONTIÈRES project,
- an interface for exchange of sound and image during the Kunstradio broadcast,
- a section about the role of rooks, crows and ravens in mythology,
- an interface for contributions - facts, stories, observations about Rooks.

Two live evenings are also included in the project plan: On October 5 Alla
Mitrofanova has developed a discussion around the theme of "The Time of
Migration", and on October 12 a performance evening with Dehli Kuda Populo,
a group of young St.Petersburg poets has been organised by Anna Matveyeva.
Martin Krusche and others will be in Vienna in Studio RP4. Both events will
be streamed live, with sound and image, on the internet.

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RADIO
Kunstradio broadcast - October 5 '03 - 23:00 to 24:00 (CET) on Ö1 (culture
channel of ORF, Austrian National Radio). The broadcast will be received in
St.Petersburg as a "live-stream" on the internet. The program is divided
into 3 parts:
1. a 20 minute work by Robert Adrian and Martin Leitner based on the
recordings ma de by M.Leitner for the installation loops,
2. a 15 - 20 minute contribution by St.Petersburg artist Dmitry Shubin
3. a live, improvised interaction between the studio in Vienna and Quo
Vadis in St.Petersburg with Anna Jermolaewa, Alexander Felch, Bernhard
Loibner, a.o.