Depot:Personal–Collective Festival

Contact

Festival Osebno–kolektivno

http://www.kudmreza.org/personalcollective

Organised byKUD Mreža Arts and Culture Association

Frequencyannual

Personal–Collective Festival is a two-day festival of modern improvised music, dance and visual arts. It has been established on the presumption that in artistic practice, especially in improvisation, one cannot separate personal and collective, moreover, these notions are intertwined. It was launched in 2010 by KUD Mreža Arts and Culture Association in co-production with Središče Art Centre. It is held in Klub Menza pri koritu, the open theatre of SEM and Cyberpipe, which are all located in Ljubljana. It was devised by Seijiro Murayama, a Japanese experimental musician and percussionist currently residing in Paris, who in the recent years has collaborated with a number of Slovenian and international artists. Murayama envisioned the festival as an opportunity to get acquainted with different art forms and to present the work of the artists with whom he has collaborated on various workshops and concerts.

Participants

The festival brings artists, from various European countries, who perform as individuals, in prearranged or spontaneous groupings. They belong to various art genres such as improvisation music, painting, visual arts, performance, theatre and sound art. The initiator Seijiro Murayama has performed each year. In 2010 we could listen to Jean-Luc Guionnet from France, Luciano Maggiore and Dominique Vaccaro from Italy, Tim Blechmann, Klaus Filip, Noid and Stefan Fraunberger from Austria, and others. In 2011 twenty-one artists performed, among them Jean-Luc Guionnet, Eric Cordier and Annette Krebs. We also must not forget to mention a few Slovene acts by Tomaž Grom, Irena Tomažin, Neža Naglič, N’toko and Luka Prinčič.

See also

• KUD Mreža Arts and Culture Association
• Središče Art Centre
• Klub Menza pri koritu
• SEM
• Cyberpipe

External links

• Website
• Središče Art Centre Website on the festival's programme in 2011