[spectre] grey) (area – Listening with the Sea and the Stone + Toward Europe

[Darko Fritz]

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