Novi Sad picnic

[anna balint]

Dear Andrej,

the Transeuropean picnic is organized by kuda.org and V2.
It seems to be a nice event,  I hope it is going to happen.

greetings,
Anna




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Trans_European Picnic: The Art and Media of Accession
April 30 - May 01 2004
Novi Sad, Serbia
Hosted by kuda.org, Novi Sad in collaboration with V2_,Institute for the
Unstable Media, Rotterdam
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On May 1, 2004 the European Union will expand beyond its current 'core
Europe' constellation to include, for the first time, nations of the former
Eastern and Non-Aligned Blocks. For these ten nations the 'day of
accession' is the opportunity to rejoin a European sphere which, for many,
was felt to have been robbed through the militarily enforced alliances of
the Cold War.

By recalling the pan-European Picnic of 1989 along the Austrian-Hungarian
border, which induced the events leading to the collapse of the Berlin
Wall, the Trans_European Picnic will mark the resultant shift in Europe’s
geopolitical structure. For many however, the 'opening' brought about by
the events of 1989 are now to be met by 'managed closure', restricted
mobility, the revival of 'visa regimes' delineating new barriers and
borders as well as the imposition of new top-down regulations,
bureaucracies and standards.

Through a two-day electronic media arts and culture gathering in and around
the city of Novi Sad, Serbia, not far beyond the European Union's new
transnational edge, the Picnic will bring together artists, theoreticians
and media practitioners from across Europe to explore the changing cultural
and artistic landscape within and beyond this new conglomerate of competing
cultures, economies and identities. The Trans_European Picnic will provide
a lively platform of debate and exchange into the evolving sense of
identity and new forms of collaboration active in countering the growing
gap separating the Europe of the "Out-side" from the Europe of the "In-side".

With presentations by a.o.: Luchezar Boyadziev (BG), Bojana Petric
(HU/SCG), Stephen Kovats (CA/HU/NL), Marion von Osten (DE), Florian
Schneider (DE), Vuk Cosic (SI), Vladan Joler (SCG), Media Art Farm (GE),
Nat Muller (NL), Edit András (HU), Basak Senova (TR), Milos Vojtechovský (CZ)

Performances by a.o.: State of Sabotage (AT), inf.act (GE), Anabala (TR),
Connected Art Workers' Stream in collaboration with \An`a*tom"ic\ (Waag
Society / Guy Van Belle, NL)

Screenings by a.o.: Zelimir Zilnik (SCG), Janko Baljak (SCG), Pavel Braila
(MD), Hubert Czerepok (PL), Joost Conijn (NL), film & video selection by
NOMAD (TR)

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More info:
http://www.transeuropicnic.org

Contact:
office at kuda.org
tel/fax +381 21 512 227
http://kuda.org
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