With the project "European Accents in Perm" we aim to develop a network of Russian and European artists, cultural institutions and administrations. A second aim is to support the capacity building of civil society organisations through best practice transfer, cooperations with sustainable outcomes and improvement of the management skills of the project leaders and management capacity of the institutions. The project supports the European identity on the basis of common values.

Final selection of the project ideas

After meetings with the artistic advisors in the three cities and partners a final meeting took place on the 14th of December 2009 in Berlin. We are very happy to inform you about the projects which will be invited to continue their work within the project "European Accents in Perm".

The following projects will be involved:

• “Market place” multifaceted interventions at the Perm marketplace
• “New Land: City language – language city” a working model that bridges linguistic, space and cultural distances through creating a universal form of communication over art forms
• “Carma Cola” a cooperation between artists, working on different means of artistic expression.
• “Doorsination” photographic exhibition in public space
• “In the depths of the city” site specific life installation of artists and musicians
• “Theatre project (Farewell to Arms)” a collective street theatre performance
• “City-facts” sculpture of all senses with involvement of the inhabitants of Perm, Duisburg and Pécs
• “Multifunctional cultural space”
• “A part” a multi-media reflection on urban life

The next step will be the second network meeting taking place in Perm in February 2010

13 project ideas were handed in

The deadline for handing in the project ideas passed on Sunday the 29th of November 2009. We received 13 bi- and trinational project ideas with more than 50 artists directly involved from the three cities.
A jury formed by members from the three cities involved will decide upon the selection within the next two weeks and the final decision will be published after the 15th of December 2009.
The project team will be supported by artistic advisors from the three cities:

Prolonged deadline for project descriptions

The prolonged deadline for handing in your common project ideas is the 29th of November 2009. Please fill in the documents "project_description_english" and "project_description_russian" and send it to management(at)perm-duisburg-pecs.eu

!!!GROUPS with IDEAS seeking PARTNERS!!!
If you want to join a group, which is still looking for partners please click here for an overview.

The 1st Networkmeeting in Perm September 2009

(please click here to download the report about the 1st networkmeeting)

Around 60 artist and cultural activists from Perm (Russia), Pécs (Hungary) and Duisburg (Germany) met in Perm from 20^th to 24^th of September 2oo9. Amongst them were visual artists, musicians, performers, dancers, photographers, cultural managers and people who work interdisciplinary.
 
On the first day all participants of the meeting organized a “bazar”: within one space every one had the possibility to present their work to the rest of the group- with objects, music, video and visual material and, of course, words. Then there was the chance to float around in the lively atmosphere to see and talk about what the others are dealing with in their artistic work. Spontaneous invitations for tours around the city and studio visits followed this event.
 
The next two days were dedicated to getting to know each other better, so common work started in different workshops/laboratories. Here it became clear that it is not always easy to just jump in and be creative together- but maybe we will witness new forms of creative processes and collaboration soon?

First project Ideas 

The first project ideas were presented at the end of the last day. So far they can roughly be described as:

• New Land- use the city as a language, transform what you find into different art forms
• Theater project
• Art on the Street: collaboration of various people doing street art- work within other peoples conceptions/ bring photos from every day life (market place) into the museum, market sellers do guided tours/ performative interactions on the market as the heart of a city/ the key-site specific performances in hidden places
• Roses- Festival of Roses- sculptors from Perm, Duisburg and Pecs
• Particle- creation of an art/virtual city
• Music and Art in public space- transforming empty buildings with visuals and music
• Short Film project- 1 story made within 3 cities
• Kniga mira- collaboration: writing and illustrating a book together

 
So we have a bunch of interesting project ideas, a group of various people eager to work together with, artists from Duisburg  that did not know each other before- but now do- and artists and „officials“ from Pecs that took the chance to talk about their differences at home in another city, in Perm.
 
Parallel to the workshops for the artists members of the administration and the Cultural Capital of Culture 2010 from Pécs and Duisburg met some colleagues from the administration of the City of Perm and the Perm Region. This was a first attempt towards a future cooperation. Also within the groups the exchange between the artists and the officials from the administration was an important part of the program of this first network meeting.

What happens next?

Until the 15^th of November project ideas for the upcoming year and the Festival “European Accents in Perm” in September 2o1o should be handed in at …. Have a look on the website beforehand where you can find projects that are still open for participants.

Every one who is interested in participating in the network and festival is kindly invited to hand in project ideas!

Our next journey to Perm will be at the end of  February 2o1o. Artists will meet and develop their project ideas. Additional to that there is a training in cultural management for those who are interested.

The participants from Pécs and Duisburg arrived in Perm for the 1st Network-meeting and discovered the City of Perm.

Participants of the first network meeting are selected

On the 12th of July the selection committee chose 12 cultural activists from Pécs and Duisburg for participation in the first network meeting, which will take place in Perm from the 20th till 24th of September 2009.The committee considered for their decision the artistic work of the applicants as well as the composition of the group of participants from Perm, Duisburg and Pécs.


Selected participants from Perm: 

• Aleksey Gushchin / art and media
• "Assa" / music
• Andrey Yankin / art and media
• Andrey Khusid / interdisciplinary
• Alla Svetlakova / interdisciplinary
• Sergey Dyukin / music
• Ilya Druzyakin /
• Rustam Ismagilov / art and media
• Natalya Shostina / interdisciplinary
• Lev Kataev / interdisciplinary
• Marya Chirkova / interdisciplinary
• Vadim Mikhailov / art and media
• Nadezhda Okorokova / interdisciplinary
• Konstantin Kholmogorov / art and media
• Natalya Sedunova / performing arts
• Sergey Starigin /
• Vladimir  Vakhrameev / interdisciplinary
• Eduard Ovchinnikov /
• "Silicon" /
• Sergey Teterin / interdisciplinary
• "Kventa" /
• Elena Novosyolova / music
• Viktor Kuzminov / interdisciplinary
• Sergey Stakanov /
• Aleksey Tyutnev /
• Marina Zorina / interdisciplinary
• Galina Kokoulina /
• Yuryi Chirkov / art and media
• Yulia Redkina /
• Yuryi Lapshin / interdisciplinary

Selected participants from Duisburg:

• Gudrun Alt/ interdisciplinary
• Maximilian Bilitza/ interdisciplinary
• Bilmen Mizgin/ performing arts
• Marita Bullmann/ art and media
• Wolfgang Dybowsky/ music
• Rüdiger Eichholtz/ interdisciplinary
• Sven Feller/ art and media
• Annette Jonak/ art and media
• Harald Schulte/ performing arts
• Nadja Susemichel/ interdisciplinary
• Nesrin Tanc/ music
• Gürsoy Tanc/ music

Selected participants from Pécs:

• Lajos Bergics/ music
• Imre Bogyó/ music
• Antonio De Blasio/ administration
• Attila Garamvölgyi/ interdisciplinary
• János Girán/ administration
• Peter Majdik/ interdisciplinary
• Katalin Pásti/ interdisciplinary
• Ágnes Simon/ administration
• Hajnal Szolga/ art and media
• Márton Szuhay/ art and media
• Orsolya Thorday/ interdisciplinary
• Rita Varga/ art and media

The participants of the first network meeting are next to representing themselves as artists, cultural managers or cultural policy makers, representatives and multipliers of the artistic scenes of their cities. According to the aim of the project we seek to give as many cultural activists as possible the chance to establish contacts with partners from the other two cities. Thus we encourange those, who are interested in cooperations to contact a participant of the network meeting from their home town and to ask for procurement of contacts to likeminded cultural activists during the meeting in Perm. Furthermore please also contact the people you want to get in touch with via the emails you find on this website.

The Network is growing

80 profiles of artists are already online. We are still collecting more and would like to encourage everyone from Perm, Duisburg and Pécs, who is interested in joining the network to send us their profiles.
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Project presentations

The presentation in Perm in early April and Duisburg and Pécs in June were the first steps to get the artists interested and involved into the project.