WHAT TO DO ?

We invite you to think over about the fate of the village, create your own statements and art on the life and problems of:

river pollution, ugly buildings and fences, the disappearance of old houses, nature invasion, air clogging with gases, logging of trees, sounds of civilization in the village, poaching.

In formats: installation art, music, sound and performance art, video and moving image.

VIDEO

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Art Expedition

in Kurba

Shooting a film about Kurba

Locals comunity life,

their stories and legends about Kurba

Statements by artists (sculptors, dancers, actors) as part of the Art Expedition about Kurba

Problems and distinctive features of Kurba

As a material for short documentary film about Kurba through the prism of the gaze of local residents and invited artists into the place.

MUSIC

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Art Expedition

in Kurba

Collectioning of sounds Kurba, together with local residents (voices, sounds of nature, songs, poems, noise)

Overlaying Kurbas sounds on a audio composition

Work with local to collect sounds

Workshop for local schoolchildren to work with sound tracks

Estimated final product:

audio track with sounds of a place

as a background for a movie about Kurba

DANCE

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Art Expedition

in Kurba

Dance statement, born through the perception of the village Kurba

PAINTING

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Art Expedition

in Kurba

Portraits of local residents, landscapes, architecture of the village of Kurba

ARCHITECTURE

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Art Expedition

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Solving the problem of one of the public places of Kurba village by means of its architectural rethinking / addition

Sculptural composition in open spaces of Kurba

ART-RESIDENCE IN KURBA

Kurba, once the patrimony of the famous Kurbskii princes, then a thriving merchant village with a developed infrastructure and a church with unique architecture, is now withering: the main production and workshops facilities are closed, old houses die in fires, and after graduation from local school, young people tend to leave the rich in nature, but poor for its social and economic development.

These events are naturally reflected in the life of the village: every year the unique Church of the Kazan Icon of Our Lady comes closer and closer to it’s doom, the once picturesque landscapes ran wild, floodplains and river banks are littered with debris.

One of the main reasons for these processes is the loss of interest in their homeland among the local population, their inability to see ways of its development.

The Art-residence in Kurba is aimed at bringing new life into the village of Kurba, increasing interest of local youth in their village, which becomes a place where creative active life is concentrated. Through the participation of an international team of artists in the life of the village, their work with the younger generation of local community, the creation of a film about Kurba we want to evoke and maintain a feeling of belonging to the village among local residents.

Art Residence in Kurba is aimed at working with the environment of the village and the local community, finding solutions for manifesting the identity of the place, implementing a rich cultural program and, as a result, gradually changing the image of the village in the eyes of the local population and tourists, creating awareness of international art-community.

Through the interaction of local residents with an international team of artists we want to generate interest in the study of history and development of Kurba’s territory as a place with the potential to deploy a successful cluster for cultural and educational tourism, to form a “center of gravity” for social and cultural activities for long-term development of the village.

We want to achieve this:

a) through the active involvement of the young generation in the art-residence events;

b) by creating an Internet platform about the life of Kurba during the art-residence for its sustainable update by local school students upon completion of the project;

c) the creation of a film about the art-residence in Kurba;

d) forming an exhibition and a tour guide.

Art-residence in Kurba is the beginning of the process of revitalization of the Kurba village in the Yaroslavl region. An international team of artists, together with local people, work during the summer period on creating art objects, cultural events and other artistic statements about Kurba, its landscape, architecture, history, events and modern life characters.

This will revive interest and pride in the local children and youth, love for Kurba; Give a format of a new intercultural and intergenerational event on the territory of the village; form an idea of Kurba as a place that is ideal for creative residences and promising for tourists.

As a result of the project, materials about Kurba will be collected, media content created (video, photo, website) to promote Kurba and form a positive image of the village both for local and international community.

We hope that the project “Art-residence in the village of Kurba” will serve as an example of involving local people in modern socio-cultural events for the benefit of developing the tourist potential of the village for neighboring villages. Kurba’s closest neighbors — the villages of Shirinye, Degtevo, Rezanino, Mikhailovskoye, Kozmodemyansk, Novlenskoye, Solonets — are places with interesting history and abandoned architectural heritage, for which the art-residence format can also be a turning point for cultural development.

FINAL PRODUCT

Film made in the process on different languages will be sent to the

competitions of world short film festivals.

Also we will make an exhibition in the local Russian art-center and the book.

ART FIELDS

ILLUSTRATION

DANCE

MUSIC

VIDEO

PHOTO