
Grant Programme for Internationalization → Open call 2 phase 2
Murmansk Prospekt
Stichting Sonic Acts, Friday Milk, 2019
€50.000
Stichting Sonic Acts (NL) and Friday Milk (RU) have joined forces to set up Murmansk Prospekt. As part of this project they are inviting young talented Russian and Dutch makers to create new work which will help local residents and future generations to identify more closely with the identity of their city. By means of digital culture, the makers present the hidden stories and lost identity of Murmansk: a remote industrial city in the Far North. €50.000
A concrete plan was devised in the start-up phase for three artistic, speculative research labs. In the 'Field Recording Laboratory', Sergey Kislov (RU), Sergey Kostyrko (RU), Marijn Verbiesen (NL) and Gert-Jan Prins (NL) are focusing on the invisible features and the wide range of sounds in the city. In the 'VR/AR Laboratory', Philipp Guzeev (RU), Alex Timofeev (RU), Andreas Kühne (NL) and BJ Nilsen (NL) are researching the interaction between the strong tradition of street art and the experimental sounds scene in the city. Finally, in the 'Speculative Documentation Lab', Katya Larina (RU), Polina Medvedeva (NL) and others are examining old city archives and revealing new stories. The makers will create three new works and will present the results at the Inversia Festival in Russia and the Sonic Acts Academy in the Netherlands, in 2020. This project furthermore forms the launch of an independent online Speculative Documentation for alternative stories from the Far North. Other local partners are: Murmansk College of Arts, Murmansk Regional Universal Scientific Library, Culture and Arts Committee of the Murmansk Region and the Gallery of Industrial History in Petrozavodsk.
More information about phase 1