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http://theater.cardboardia.info
State Cardboardia Street Theater then connected to projects with local communities
We usually organize laboratories in different countries that focus on creative economy of place.

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I am currently working on touring HYDRA exhibition in Russia and abroad https://sevcableport.ru/en/hydra. Would be happy to get any suggestions / advice

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11 September - 31 January

monday - 17:00-22:00
tuesday-friday - 12:00-22:00
saturday-sunday - 11:00-22:00

A large-scale exhibition which represents environmental agenda through the prism of art&science and new media art. It brings together leading international and local artists exploring environmental issues.

The main metaphor of the exhibition is reflected in the name of the project - Hydra stands for both - water, the element closest to St. Petersburg, and a mythical creature that grows new heads in place of felled ones.
The exhibition looks at environmental issues related to water in the context of artistic statements and how humans influence these changes.

British philosopher Timothy Morton writes that the concept of nature is perhaps the most dangerous idea created by humanity, as it separates us from all other phenomena on the planet into an isolated, closed category. Ecology slogans should not be shameful calls to save the planet or "nature" (after all, many living organisms existed before humanity and will probably be able to survive even a nuclear winter), but a call to preserve the conditions under which the ecosystem into which a human is integrated can continue to survive.

We turn to contemporary art to discuss ethical and philosophical issues related to the environmental agenda, and invite exhibition visitors to think of new questions to this area themselves.

Exhibition curators: Olga Vad, Lydia Gumenyuk
Artists:

Deep Meditations
A large-scale audio-visual installation was dedicated to the subjective perception of natural phenomena, their relationship with human rituals, and whether we can teach machine intelligence subjective human concepts. Meditatively and continuously evolving images and installation sounds are generated by the imagination of two deep neural networks. One was trained on hundreds of thousands of Flickr images of different elements of the universe. The other is hours of religious and spiritual chanting taken from YouTube.

Memo Akten is an artist, musician and computer scientist. He works in and draws inspiration from fields such as biological and artificial intelligence, computational creativity, perception, consciousness, neuroscience, fundamental physics, ritual and religion. He has a PhD in Artificial Intelligence / Deep Learning and expressive human-machine interaction. Akten received the Prix Ars Electronica Golden Nica for his work 'Forms' in 2013. He has also collaborated with celebrities such as Lenny Kravitz, U2, Depeche Mode and Professor Richard Dawkins.

The project is part of the UK - Russia Creative Bridge programme 2021-2022 supported by the Cultural and Education Section of the British Embassy in Moscow.

Whispers

Whispers is part of Light Society's ongoing "Tools for Transformation" series (2016-present), which imagines new therapeutic modalities for possible human futures. Synthesizing elements from both ancient and contemporary practices, Light Society has created an immersive installation that invites participants to surrender body and mind for potential transformation. Employing wind, light, and sound to both playful and therapeutic effect, Whispers allows viewers to explore the boundaries of ordinary experience.

With the support of Arsenal Art Contemporain

Light Society is a collaboration between artists Aliya Orr and Sakchin Bessette exploring the intersections of art, science, and mysticism. Conceived as a series of extended experiments across a diverse range of media including sculpture, installations, video, and performance, their work seeks to generate meaningful engagements with altered states of consciousness, perception, and the magic of the everyday.

Bessette, co-founder and executive creative director of Moment Factory, has created large scale public artworks and multimedia installations throughout Canada and Internationally. Orr is a diversified artist whose most recent practice has explored the use of light as a medium to transform experience.

Clams

In nature, clams are detectors of pollutants; they serve as tiny filtration systems. Clams is a collection of kinetic sound sculptures which convert data from water quality sensors into sounds and movement. Each 'clam' is constructed from recycled waste plastic and contains a speaker. The continuously evolving microtonal soundscape gives each shell a subtle, life-like opening and closing action. Real-time readings from an industry-standard water purity sensor placed in the Big Neva near Sevkabel Port form the basis for the music, which is generated through a constantly shifting process based on water quality levels over time.

Marco Barotti is a media artist based in Berlin. His installations merge audio technology, consumer objects, and waste into moving sculptures triggered entirely by sound. The primary focus of his work is to create a "tech ecosystem" that plays with resemblances to animals and plants. These artworks serve as a metaphor for the anthropogenic impact on the planet and aim to make people aware of environmental issues.

Supported by the European Media Art Platform, co-funded by Creative Europe.

Flow

In this interactive installation, the viewers find themselves in the centre of the world's oceans. The data on wind strength, air humidity, and wave height from various parts of the Earth is transmitted in real-time mode to the exhibition space, which may turn into the Mediterranean Sea near Spain or the Gulf of Finland near St. Petersburg.

Mathieu Le Sourd, also known as Maotik, is a French digital artist who focuses on immersive experiences, interactive installations, and audio-visual performances. He is one of the world's most renowned and recognizable digital artists. His works have been exhibited at various festivals and institutions worldwide, such as Mutek Festival, Signal Festival in Prague, British Film Institute in London, Ars Electronica in Linz, Miraikan Science Museum in Tokyo, and many others.

With the support of the Institut Français (Saint Petersburg).

win > < win

In collaboration with marine biologists and ecologists, Rimini Protokoll has created an interactive show that offers a fresh look at the influence human beings have on the planet. Jellyfish have been around for nearly 670 million years. Almost anything that damages our ecosystem benefits them. Overfishing and plastic reduce the number of predators, and constantly rising water temperatures lengthen their reproductive period. Massive invasions of jellyfish threaten to destroy fish populations and can paralyze the operation of nuclear power plants. Are jellyfish more likely to adapt to changing conditions than humans? Could they remain one of the last surviving creatures on Earth? Is it possible to find a strategy of coexistence that will benefit everyone?

Rimini Protokoll is currently one of the most sought-after theatre labels in the world. They first appeared on stage in the early 2000s and work in the genre of documentary theatre. Founded by Helgard Haug, Stefan Kaegi, and Daniel Wetzel, the group explores real life at the intersection of art and social investigation, fiction, and news. One of their projects is the interactive performance "Remote Moscow," which made quite a noise in Russia.

aqua_forensic
The project focuses on studying chemical pollution in the aquatic environment (which arises from humans' use of a considerable amount of pharmaceuticals) and how this is becoming a threat to aquatic life. An in vitro experiment is demonstrated on holographic screens. Marine microorganisms are killed in pharmaceutical solutions 20,000 times weaker than the average human dose.

Robertina Šebjanič is an internationally recognised artist and researcher. Her work revolves around the biological, chemical, political, and cultural realities in aquatic environments and the challenges the Anthropocene era poses for the marine environment.

Gjino Šutić is a biotechnologist, artist, teacher, and founder and director of the Universal Research Institute in Zagreb, Croatia, and Gen0 Industries. He researches biotechnology, bioelectronics, experimental electronics, and environmental engineering, combining this with experiments in bioart, digital art, and hybrid art. In his work, he often turns to citizen science and DIY biohacking.

Supported by the European Media Art Platform, co-funded by Creative Europe.

The Day We Left Field
The Day We Left Field is an immersive site-specific audio-visual installation inspired by natural environment and its place in modern cities landscape. In "The Day We Left Field" Nature in its primary form, blades of grass, is the "leading character". As in a surrealist painting, the blades of grass rhythmically keep wavering upside down in a cocoon of sound and visual effects forming a floating meadow.

TUNDRA is a St.Petersburg based collaborative artist collective focused on creating spaces and experiences by exploring facets of interaction between audio/visual and human emotions. TUNDRA specialises in multi-media performances and immersive audiovisual installations. Their multidisciplinary team involves musicians, sound engineers, programmers and visual artists.

Nature Always Wins
Nature Always Wins is a series of infinite film loops gliding over our cities, briefly reclaimed by nature. Inspired by the 're-wilding' we've seen around us during the lockdown, these vistas offer a glimpse of a potential new normal.

Universal Everything is an international group of digital artists, designers, and researchers founded in 2004 by Matt Pike. The artists collaborate with the leading cultural institutions and brands in developing video art and immersive installations on topics often associated with modernist architecture, natural landscapes, anthropomorphism, and the study of human movements. In 2019, Unit Editions published a monograph dedicated to the group.

The project is part of the UK - Russia Creative Bridge programme 2021-2022 supported by the Cultural and Education Section of the British Embassy in Moscow.

Interference
In an immersive installation specially designed for HYDRA, visual effects are created using natural media - light and water. Still, their interaction is not typical for wildlife. The installation consists of several water reservoirs; inside these, wave generators create concentric wave oscillations and light systems. Thanks to their interaction, a light projection of a dynamic water surface is formed on the floor.

Victor Polyakov works in light minimalism and abstract sculpture as well as commercial and fine-art photography. In his works, light and movement are the key media. Through optical effects and new technologies, the artist transforms the perception of space. His public art projects were exhibited at the New Tretyakov Gallery and the Lexus Hybrid Art festival.

Sodden Creeper
The Bluesoup's latest work is a black and white looped video in which an endless grey rain is falling and a massive creature resembling an earthworm is moving slowly. The viewer will have the opportunity to deal with their own experiences and determine what this work gives them: a feeling of anxiety, a chthonian sensation, or a strange charm.

The Bluesoup art group was formed in 1996 by Alexey Dobrov, Daniel Lebedev, and Valery Patkonen. Alexandr Lobanov joined the group in 2002. The group works with video art and computer animation. Their solo shows were held at XL Gallery, Triumph, Stella Art Foundation, and Manezh in Moscow. They have taken part in group exhibitions at the State Tretyakov Gallery, the Garage Museum, Art Unlimited/Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, the Guggenheim Museum in New York, and others. The artists were nominated for the Innovation 2007 award in the "Work of visual art" category.

Exhibition team:

Exhibition realization: Sevkabel Port, Agency for cultural projects NADO

Exhibition and public program curators: Olga Vad, Lydia Gumenyuk

Producer: Yulia Loginova

Scientific consultant: Julia Kuznetsova

Project manager: Maria Basyrova

Architecture: Alexander Zinoviev, Irina Shmeleva

Graphic design: Maria Kosareva

Technical Director: Maxim Kharin

Project partners:

The event is held as part of the UK - Russia Creative Bridge 2021-2022 program with the support of the Culture and Education Department of the British Embassy in Moscow.

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11 September - 31 January monday - 17:00-22:00tuesday-friday - 12:00-22:00saturday-sunday - 11:00-22:00 A large-scale exhibition which represents environmental agenda through the prism of art&science and new media art. It brings together leading international and local artists exploring environmental issues.

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Q: How touring exhibitions is changing because of the pandemics?

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The project is one part memory, one part dream - expressed through stories, recollections, art and sound.

With an exhibition, events, online presence and a publication, it tells the historical story of Krugozor and asks “where is the dream of an international utopia beyond borders now?”

The history of Krugozor is researched and the stories of those who worked there are collected - along with those of readers who were influenced by it.

The publication is in the form of a new Krugozor magazine - designed exactly as the old  - with images, words and audio but augmented by a digital dimension and life

The content explores boundaries and borders with stories, images and audio from the edge, from the furthermost points of the old empires, where they touched the world beyond. What do we find there now? Whose voices do we hear?

At a time when viruses and the internet have shown  us that borders only exist in our imagination can we re-imagine these places and points of crossing?

Is it still possible to dream of a world beyond ideology, where community is not defined by national territory?

KRUGOZOR 2024 is an international project based in Russia, crossing the borders of the old ‘western’ and ‘eastern’ blocs as Krugozor originally dreamed.

Its prime curators are a Russian artist, Sergey Korsakov and a British artist Stephen Coates.  The project will invite artists, writers and musicians to participate to investigate its themes.

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If you interesting in Street Theater of Russia here is our webpage www.streetrussia.com
We are planning PRO programm in June  during Archangelsk Street Theater Festival open call is out internationally
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSeejVUulH3jStP14x6cGw0tQE0AyblkaCCJbYFNe5r2URD2aA/viewform

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How can we sustainably perform/ present our existing works in other countries, considering the impact on the environment, and viability of international travel.
Am thinking in particular of our show ON EDGE, which entails a team off 12 on the road and a large scaffolding structure that needs a 12t truck for transport.
https://www.justiceinmotion.co.uk/show/on-edge/

What are alternative options?
* create film version that can be available globally, and then combine it with either in person or online workshops? (would we loose the power of live experience of the show though?)
* Re-create the show in the partnering country with local artists? (yet what happens with the set that is being built in various countries - would it be more sustainable to tour the existing set? and actually more affordable to simply bring the existing troupe abroad?)
* Create new work entirely with international partners abroad, and just bring a small team to develop the work there, based on our creative practice.
-> that is if it is about work by 'Justice in Motion', rather than doing an international collaboration where all partners enter the relationship equally, that is different yet again of course.

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Parkour and theatre blended into an exciting outdoor show. ON EDGE tells a moving, stimulating story.