Something important has been taking place every winter in Pärnu, Estonia, and deserves our attention. The Printmaking In Festival combined with the Pärnu Days of Contemporary Music make an enclave of three weeks of explosive creativity and experimentation for artists in various areas of contemporary art: performance, sculpture, painting, audiovisual art, photography, digital media and music, from 9 to 31 of January, 2010.
Both festivals are organized by the former Academia Non Grata and the Estonian Arnolt Schoenberg Society. The Printmaking In Festival initiated originally in the mid 90s in order to introduce the newest explorations of printmaking outside of Estonia’s capital, Tallinn. For several years this festival has been proving that the lack of professional print making equipment (as is the case outside the capital) is not the biggest obstacle in making prints. There has been body-printing, baking-prints, suitcase-printing etc. (the 2005 edition was dedicated to self-made experimental printmaking machines; in 2006 there were experiments from xerox printing to branding bodies).
In 2008, Printmaking In took place together with the Pärnu Days of Contemporary Music as an ongoing dialog of modernist and postmodernist visual art and music. This will be the case also in the 2010 edition and the interdisciplinary relationship between music, theatre and visual art will be studied in lectures, recitals, workshops, discussions, exhibitions, and performances. In addition to modernist music and topical art events, the festival will also delve into the deep structures of modernist music, theatre, dance and visual arts.
Events will take place in different locations around the city of Pärnu, which will be connected to Tallinn with a special festival bus. Exhibitions will open on January 9, while the main multimedia workshop kicks off on January 11 and runs through the festival. The workshop Dimensions 2. Focus on MAX/MSP, UPIC, Do It Yourself! is about music instruments, human voice in contemporary music and sound synthesis.
An educational program is linked with the workshop, while there will also be a symposium titled Scholastics. Brian Ferneyhough, running through January 22-24.
Facts
When
9/1/2010 - 31/1/2010
Where
Keskväljak 1, Pärnu 80010, Estonia
T: +372-4-420657, 20666
F: +372-4-430692
teater@endla.ee
Esplanaadi 10, 80100 Pärnu, Estonia
T: +372-44-36433
linna.galerii@mail.ee
Nikolai 27, Pärnu, Estonia
T: +372-44-36433
kunstikeskus@mail.ee
35 Ringi Street, 80010 Pärnu, Estonia
T: +372-44-50520
F: +372-44-50530
Pärnu College of Tartu University
Aida 4, 80011 Pärnu, Estonia
T: +372-44-55830
parnumuusika@hot.ee
Akadeemia 3, 80010 Pärnu, Estonia
T: +372-44-55707
pkr@pkr.ee
Aia 4, 80010 Pärnu, Pärnumaa, Estonia
T: +372-44-33231, 33232
F: +372-44-33232
muuseum@pernau.ee
Contacts
T. +372-44-26546, 71-21874
e-mail: nongrata@nongrata.ee, schoenberg@schoenberg.ee
Info
Organisers
Estonian Arnolt Schoenberg Society (Eesti Arnold Schönbergi Ühing)
Registrinumber 80016765, Sihi 141 A-1, 10918 Tallinn, Estonia
T: +372-71-21874
schoenberg@schoenberg.ee
Suur-posti 16, 80018 Pärnu, Estonia
T: +372-44-26546
nongrata@nongrata.ee
