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Organizing a travel-project through Caucasus and countries around Caucasus, that will have as its’ goal to find/work on common goals.

Many artists talk and work about the same things but they remain in isolation. If we, artists don’t start talking to each other, do not search for the common directions, if we don’t realize that ideas have to be shared and that we will only achieve anything significant from a common ground, we will remain small countries with insignificant cultural lives slavishly following the dominant trend. We will condemn ourselves to always being one step – or several steps – behind.

Needles to say that, no significant cultural development can take place in a region where national borders between states remain largely closed, especially when we are talking about countries as tiny as Armenia, whose territory covers 29,800 km²and has a population of 3.5 million people, Georgia, which covers 69,700²km and has a population of 4.5 million people, and Azerbaijan, which covers 86,600 km²and has a population 8.5 million people. What is more, these tiny counties have a tendency to get smaller and smaller: some having regions in a state of semi-conflict, others in a state of frozen conflict; some with territories recognized by international bodies such as the UN, others with unrecognized territories, living in a state of legal limbo.

Meanwhile these countries are very interesting ground for the artists to work and to react upon. Caucasus is very alive region with constant changes and adaptations. Looking/defining the common goals for the Caucasian artists together with the British participants can unfold very interesting results. The look from the inside and outside together can bring up surprising observations.

During this project core part of the group will travel together and others will join in in their regions for shorter amount of time. There will be place for the discussions, workshops and presentations. Artists will be asked to create some works on the spot, in unexpected places (old soviet shopping moll in the centre of the village centre) and later to present it to the others with the background information etc.

See the following text about the Faculty of Invisibility.
This could be an interesting method for making the contribution of the participants
from the Exchange Academy more specific. Something to communicate to them and
see if they want to pick this up.

Herewith I would like to inform you about The Speech, the first
manifestation of the Faculty of Invisibility. During a three day long
workshop taking place in the Jan van Eyck Academie, Maastricht on December
6,7,8 the tutors of the following departments will develop the opening
speech of the Faculty of Invisibility.

With: the Department of Learning (Nebojsa Milikic), the Department of Reading
(Sönke Hallman), the Department of Survival (Volodymyr Kuznetsov), the
Department of Haunting (Paul Gangloff), the Department of Speech Genres
(Hinrich Sachs), the Department of Real Cool (Natascha Haagenbeek), the
Department of Play (Olesya Khomenko), the Department of Symbiosis (Mykyta
Kadan), the Department of Post-autonomy (David Goldenberg), the Department
of Practice (Inga Zimprich), the Department of Doubt (Monika Vykoukal), the
Department of Common Spaces (Wim Cuyvers), the Department of Uncertainty
(Ingela Johansson) and Roe Cherpac, OneDayNation (Selina Bütler, Paul Gangloff,
Matthias Kreutzer)

With greetings,

Inga Zimprich
Department of Practice

http://www.janvaneyck.nl
http://www.faculty.cc