Culturescapes

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Culturescapes ( spelling : CULTURESCAPES ) is a culture festival that takes place every autumn in Switzerland, with a focus on Basel , in which the cultural landscape of another country or region is presented. Founded in 2002, mainly Eastern European countries were presented. Steps have been taken in recent years with issues devoted to Turkey , Azerbaijan , the People's Republic of China and Israel . With Moscow 2012, Culturescapes put the cultural topography of a city in the focus of the festival for the first time. The Balkan 2013 edition not only highlighted a country, but an entire cultural region. In 2015 the island nation of Iceland was presented. At the same time it was also announced that the festival will in future take place at the biennale rhythm. The next edition will take place in 2017. The festival cooperates with existing cultural institutions such as the Theater Basel , the Kaserne Basel or the Theaterhaus Gessnerallee , but also with the official representatives of Switzerland, e. B. pro Helvetia , as well as the respective host country at government level. The festival is multifaceted, in addition to performing arts such as music , theater and dance , film , visual arts , handcraft , literature and new media are also presented. In the Focus section, in cooperation with Swiss educational institutions such as the University of Basel or the University of Zurich, contemporary issues, popular culture and the history of the respective focus region are discussed and discussed. Controversial topics are not left out, so that protests and disputes have already occurred several times when, for example, the Armenian genocide or aspects of the Middle East conflict were discussed or Azerbaijani regime critics had their say. The founder and curator of all previous editions is the Dutch cultural entrepreneur Jurriaan Cooiman .

Idea and perspective

The original idea of ​​Culturescapes was to trace processes of transformation and their expression in contemporary art in the then almost unknown countries of the former Eastern Bloc. Little by little, this relationship dissolved and something new came into focus: “Cultural landscapes” with a long tradition of artistic diversity, the current form of which is shaped by a special constellation of historical, political, social and economic areas of tension.

Festival editions

output Host country Artists
2003 Georgia 1990Georgia Georgia u. a. Giya Kancheli as composer in residence
2004 UkraineUkraine Ukraine Topics: Chernobyl ; Literature from Chernivtsi , music by Valentin Silvestrov
2005 ArmeniaArmenia Armenia u. a. First public conference on the Armenian genocide
2006 EstoniaEstonia Estonia u. a. Estonia in Transition, by Kraahl Theater, Arvo Pärt , Erkki-Sven Tüür , first composition competition
2007 RomaniaRomania Romania u. a. Monday theater with Peca Stefan, Gianna Carbunariu; Stefan Niculescu , Aurel Stroe , Horatio Radulescu , Ana Blandiana
2008 TurkeyTurkey Turkey u. a. Fazıl Say ; Mercan Dede ,
2009 AzerbaijanAzerbaijan Azerbaijan including Frangiz Ali-Sade, Mustafa-Zadeh , Baku Pantomime Theater, first residency program for young artists
2010 China People's RepublicPeople's Republic of China People's Republic of China u. a. Co-production with Wang Jianwei ; Jin Xing , composition commissioned by Wang Xi-lin , opera from Hangzhou
2011 IsraelIsrael Israel u. a. Batsheva Dance Company ; Commissioned by Chaya Czernowin ; Co-productions Ofira Henig , Yasmeen Godder , Daniel Landau
2012 Moscow Dimtri Krymov, Yuri Bashmet , cooperation with MUSMA (music masters on air), composition commissions to Alexander Raskatov , Alexey Sysoev and Pavel Karmanov, Vladimir Sorokin
2013 Balkans u. a. Miljenko Jergović , Dubioza Kolektiv , Oliver Frljic, EnKnapGroup, Rambo Amadeus , Vlatko Stefanovski , Damir Imamović
2014 Tokyo including Bunraku , Balthasar Streiff , Toshiki Okada
2015 IcelandIceland Iceland u. a. Jón Gnarr , Ragnar Kjartansson , Ragna Róbertsdóttir , Egill Sæbjörnsson, Andri Snær Magnason , Einar Falur Ingólfsson, Erna Ómarsdóttir, Sóley , ADHD , Skúli Sverrisson , Ólöf Arnalds
2017 GreeceGreece Greece Among others Dimitris Papaioannou , Rosarte Children's Choir , Rimini Protokoll , Vassilis Varvaresos , Monks from Mount Athos , Milo Rau
2019 PolandPoland Poland including Krzysztof Warlikowski , Marta Górnicka , Paweł Pawlikowski , Olga Tokarczuk , Vladyslav Sendecki , Kinga Głyk

Venues (selection)

Return legs

Starting with the Azerbaijan edition, there were more and more return matches in which Swiss artists performed in the respective focus country. The Basel Sinfonietta made a guest appearance in Baku in 2009, there was a “Swiss Season” in Israel in 2011 and in 2012 the Basel Symphony Orchestra made guest appearances in Moscow and St. Petersburg . Current Swiss art was shown in 2013 in the eight countries of the Western Balkans under the name “Swiss Culturescapes” . Among others the Knabenkantorei Basel , the musician Nik Bärtsch with his project "Ronin" or "Imitation of life" by Boris Nikitin. Christoph Marthaler's “King Size” was received with great enthusiasm at the International Theater Festival, Sarajevo (MESS) and at the World Theater Festival in Zagreb.

Feedback and criticism

The issue of Armenia resulted in various disputes up to the highest political level over the thematization of the Armenian genocide. Other editions were also controversial because of individual issues relating to the host country: for example, critical articles in the festival newspaper in the Turkey edition, as well as the feature film “Gitmek”, freedom of speech and press at the Azerbaijan Festival and, as could be expected, in Israel Palestinian question, numerous actors in Switzerland campaigned for a complete cultural boycott against Israel.

Sponsorship and patronage

Culturescapes was operated in the early years as a label of the PASS (Performing Art ServiceS, Basel) association, but has been operating as an independent foundation Culturescapes since 2009. President is Pius Knüsel, director Jurriaan Cooiman. The state presidents of the respective host countries together with a Swiss Federal Council often took over the patronage . 2008 Abdullah Gül , Turkish President and Pascal Couchepin , 2010 Hu Jintao President of the People's Republic of China and Doris Leuthard , 2011 Micheline Calmy-Rey . The composer Sofia Gubaidulina , the philosopher Hans Saner (1934-2017) as well as the Basel government councilor Guy Morin and the writer Iso Camartin are or were also part of the patronage.

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Website Culturescapes Moscow 2012 . Retrieved February 24, 2014.
  2. ^ Website Culturescapes Balkan 2013 . Retrieved February 24, 2014.
  3. ^ Website Culturescapes Island 2015 . Retrieved December 4, 2015.
  4. ↑ Culturescapes-Geschichte ( Memento of the original from January 28, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Culturescapes website. Retrieved February 25, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.culturescapes.ch
  5. ↑ Flyer Culturescapes Georgia
  6. ↑ Program overview Culturescapes Ukraine
  7. ↑ Program overview Culturescapes Armenia
  8. ↑ Program overview Culturescapes Estonia
  9. ↑ Program overview Culturescapes Romania
  10. ↑ Culturescapes Turkey program
  11. ↑ Culturescapes Azerbaijan program
  12. ↑ Program Culturescapes China (pdf; 6.5 MB) , press review Culturescapes China 1 (PDF; 5.3 MB), 2 (PDF; 6.4 MB), 3 (pdf; 6.1 MB)
  13. ↑ Program Culturescapes Israel (pdf; 6.5 MB) , press review Culturescapes Israel 1 (PDF; 3.8 MB), 2 (PDF; 2.1 MB), 3 (PDF; 4.3 MB) 4 (pdf; 3 , 4 MB)
  14. ^ Press review Culturescapes Moscow
  15. ^ Website Culturescapes Balkan 2013
  16. ^ Website Culturescapes Tokyo 2014
  17. ↑ Culturescapes | Iceland. (PDF; 7.8 MB) Retrieved February 14, 2020 .
  18. ↑ Culturescapes | Greece. Retrieved February 14, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Culturescapes | Poland. (PDF; 9.0 MB) Accessed February 14, 2020 .
  20. ↑ List of partners Culturescapes Balkan 2013 . Retrieved February 24, 2014
  21. ↑ Boris Nikitin website . Retrieved February 24, 2014
  22. ↑ Website International Theater Festival . Retrieved February 24, 2014
  23. ^ Website World Theater Festival Zagreb
  24. ↑ Gitmek in the IDMB; Film database [1]
  25. ↑ Press release of August 2009, accessed on February 23, 2011, online