Re: Syndicate: <nettime> AVANTGARDE-ARIERGARDE FESTIVAL'99, Szczecin/PL

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On Mon, 8 Feb 1999, andreas broeckmann wrote:

> Date:  Fri, 5 Feb 1999 09:49:26 +0100
> From: "Tomek" <trzonca@polbox.com>
> To: Multiple recipients of <announcer@simsim.rug.ac.be>
> Subject:  ann! ...  communicate 2
> 
> 
> AVANTGARDE-ARIERGARDE FESTIVAL'99
> Communicate number two
> 
> We have got a many responses from all over the world. So we think the idea
> of Avantgarde-Ariergarde Festival is really interesting one for a many
> people. There are some new details about the Festival :
> 
> When  - from 21 to 25 July 1999
> 
> Where - a little town Insko on Insko Lake placed in a center of Inski
> Landscape Park, surrounded by lakes, woods and little hills. Insko Lake is
> known for its very clean water.
> Inski Landscape Park with its lakes and woods, and charmed little towns in
> the neighborhood are ideal for walking and cycling tours.
> Attention : Insko has only 2 small  hotels. For your hospitality there are
> only some places in private accommodation facilities, camps. So, don't
> forget a tent and sleeping bag ! For some participants organizers are
> preparing lodgings in hotels, private houses or school classes.
> What - music, films, theatre, off-theatre, happenings, painting and
> assemblages, poetry, art theory and more...
> There are prepared a few scenes for performances. Main one will be a local
> movie. It will be stages for musical performances and films. Another
> stages are : so called "dechy" (boards) on lake shore - for "electric
> players", stadium stage - for "ecological performers", school hall - for
> theatres and for discussion, local restaurant - for a cameral recitals and
> discussions, all the town - for happenings and hot-minded performers,
> church - for some specific "mystic" arts.
> 
> Participants - avangardist, ariergardist and sympathizers all over the
> world. We haven't a lot of money to pay a great salary for everyone (if
> any), but if you think the idea is good for you, you ought to participate
> in a festival performances. We help you in any way we could help. Off
> course all festival performances will be a free of charge.
> 
> We'd asked in first communicate your advises and we'd get a many ones. So,
> there are crystallized a first rays of an idea of avantgarde-ariergarde
> movement. Most of people thinks "avantgarde-ariergarde" is a something
> "out of establishment, art business, big stage". A-gardist is for you a
> real A-rtist who creates not for money, not for fame,  but for Art, as a
> most important part of human activity, which ought to really define a
> human nature. And A-gardist aren't the people leading towards a "new
> horizons", but "only" trying to reach an art nature of man. So, for us
> A-gardists are both the artist looking for a new direction of art
> (avantgardists-ariergardists) and "an ordinary people" creating their
> "today art", (amateurs-ariergardists). Both them are an outsiders, and
> both of them are closer to heart of art than "people on main stage". Both
> them are A-gardist and we couldn't say who of them are "av" and who are
> "ar", because "extreme sides give themselves a hands".
> 
> Say:
> - could the years of art-education kill an individuality of  the
> "avantgardist" ?
> - might the people without any concrete education be a true "avantgardist"
> ?
> We try to explain it.
> 
> What do you think - is it true ? :
> A-garde hasn't a stars, A-garde has an individualist.
> A-garde isn't a way of a "new", A-garde is independent of the time.
> A-gardist aren't looking for fame, A-gardist are looking for authenticity.
> Today so called "art" doesn't create contemporary culture, but
> contemporary culture create so called "art". There is more "so called"
> then "art". We are against "so called". If you feel A-gardist you create
> real art. Its no matter of fact you are professional or amateur.
> "A big stage" has stolen an idea of avant-garde movement and now true
> avangardist became an ariergardist like an amateurs artists.
> Both they become an A-gardists.
> 
> 
> We are waiting for your opinion about these question. It will be discussed
> on festival and some of most interesting voices will be inserted in a
> festival book.
> And, we are waiting, off course, for your participation in
> AVANGARDE-ARIERGARDE FESTIVAL or som kind of help (giving information to
> others, for example).
> 
> Greetings.
> 
>  adresses :
> 
> trzonca@polbox.com
> rheyman@polbox.com
> 
> Tomasz H. Rzonca
> 70 - 853 Szczecin
> ul.Warminska 21/1
> Poland
> 
> fax: (48)(091) 433 55 69
> 
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