PROGRAMME EVENT ©Photo by KJDT GO EAST! In the 20th century, Europe was a scene of ideological and warlike conflicts between west and east resulting in the death of millions of people. Since the Fall of the Wall and the opening of the Iron Curtain the West European economic system and financial system exploits the East European area as a growth market. However, possibilities of social and artistic exchange platforms remain restricted. KJDT* would like to start the cooperation with Austrian, German, Italian and East European artists as an exchange platform. Besides, artistic and cultural differences and common characteristics will be examined and should be discussed in an interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogue. From the 1st till 31 of August, 2010 seven artists travel from Vienna through Bratislava (Slovakia), Krakow (Poland), Lemberg, Kiev (Ukraine), Minsk, Witebsk (Byelorussia) to Wolokolamsk and Moscow (Russia). The artistic way to Wolokolamsk is documented by the participants acoustically, visually and in writing or graphically. The journey ends in Wolokolamsk. Finally in Moscow a one-day presentation (performance / installation) of the Wolokolamsker Chaussee 1-5 by Heiner Müller will take place in the art space PROEKT_FABRIKA (www.proektfabrika.ru). GO WEST! In December, 2010 KJDT organizes during 5 days a public symposium in the Viennese cultural centre Palais Kabelwerk (www.palaiskabelwerk.at) together with invited artists and curators from Austria, Italy and East Europe. The aim is to present the collected material, to discuss new possibilities of combination of the different notation systems and to further the plans for the presentations in 2011. The East European artists who participated on the way to Moscow are invited to Vienna in order to make five presentations of the East-West-Culture-Exchange together with KJDT. End of 2011 the worked and arranged material is submitted to international festivals. The whole graphic material is published as a catalogue. *KJDT sees itself as an artistic group which tracks down since 2006 in varying personal constellation the disparate, mainly still uninvestigated complete works of the German dramatist Heiner Müller (1929 – 1995), which show alternative concepts to actual theatrical trends. Since 2008 the group dedicates itself to the subject block in the age of counter-revolution. The text presentation subsequent a several years' exploration is the Wolokolamsker Chaussee 1-5. KJDT currently is: Katharina Burger, Melanie Hollaus, Andreas Pronegg, Zeynep Sarıkartal, Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair. Cooperation with: Ilya Filimonov, Nastya Geinrikh. Katharina Burger, born in 1984 in Vienna, Austria. 2004-10: Theatre/Film/Media studies at University of Vienna, works as translator and editor. 2006-07: Theatre work “Beyond Death HM3, Heiner Müller Antique Material”, Vienna, Austria. 2007: Research about Candomblé, Salvador de Bahia, Brazil. 2008: Research in the Heiner Müller Archive, Berlin, Germany. Since 2007: work with KJDT, Vienna. Melanie Hollaus, born in 1980 in Austria. Artistic works (choice): "Wolokolamsker ChausseeX/XI" (2009-11); „Operation Jason 1“ (multimedia installation 2009, www.operationjason1.eu); co-founder of the theatrical platform DAS LABOR; „New Kaisertal City“ (documentary / experimental film 2008); co-founder of KJDT (2007); „Beyond Death HM3“ (theatrical work in 2006-07), CHRISTA (photograph project 2007), Name : Phädra (videowork 2006) Theatrical education, dance education and song education (2000-04); film-, TV-, theatrical roles: performance- and videoworks Andreas Pronegg, born in 1969 in Austria, director, concept artist and actor. Besides artistic installations in landscapes, in public spaces and stagings of whole villages with participation of the inhabitants he compiles his theatrical concepts in varying formations under inclusion of the respective architecture. Theatrical works in Austria, Switzerland, Italy, Germany, France, Montenegro, Greece. Invitations for numerous national and international festivals. Zeynep Sarıkartal, born in 1985 in Ankara, Turkey. She studied piano in Bilkent Music Highschool. In 2004 she began her studies in audio-design and musicology in Istanbul Yıldız Technical University. She took part as pianist in several contemporary and baroc music festivals in Istanbul, also worked as asistant of coordinator in some of these organisations. She wrote her bachelor thesis on musical time forms after 1945, and published an artical as a part of this work focused especially on continuum and moment concepts in the musics of O. Messiaen and K. Stockhausen. Since January 2010, she started her master studies in Vienna University. Ekaterina Shapiro-Obermair, born in Moscow in 1980, is a visual artist based in Vienna. From 1999 till 2009 she studied at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, the University of Applied Arts Vienna, the Berlin University of the Arts (UDK) and the Academy of Fine Arts Nuremberg. Besides many exhibitions in the context of contemporary art, she is often involved in projects located at the interface between curation, exhibition design, architecture, ethnography and cultural studies. 2008–2009 she worked for the exhibition project Villa Sovietica at the MEG – Musée d'ethnographie de Genève, which researched the practices of cultural interpretation by displaying a particular collection of Soviet objects. In 2008 she edited the Russian/German book Das große Moskau, das es niemals gab (The Great Moscow, that Never Was) in cooperation with Wolfgang Obermair (Schlebrügge Editor), about the architecture of the Russian avant-garde in today´s Moscow. 2005–2008 she organized and conducted in cooperation with the Gallery Knoll (Vienna/Budapest) excursions to Moscow which had a focus on the Russian art market and the independent art and culture scene. Ilya Filimonov, born in 1986 in Voronezh, Russia. Artist, studied at the Theatre Academy Saint-Petersburg, worked in several Theatres such as Puppet Theatre “Shut” and Kamernij Theatre in Voronezh, TUZ and Molodezhnij Theatre at Fontanka River in Saint-Petersburg. Nastya Geinrikh, born in 1988 in Saint-Petersburg, Russia. Primarily interested in dance, she spent about 8 years trying various styles through ballet and flamenco to contemporary dance. Simultaneously she pursued her BA degree in Philology in Saint-Petersburg and then moved to Germany to study Liberal Arts. There in Berlin she got interested in contemporary art practices, installation mostly, and continues working with artists and by herself on the dead-fall of semiotic system. The presentation of performance and installation will take place on August 31, Tuesday, from 19.41 to 20.41 Learn more about KJDT	NEWS 31.12 ПRОЕКТ_FАБRИКА wishes you a Happy New Year and Merry Christmas! ПRОЕКТ_FАБRИКА wishes you a Happy New Year and Merry Christmas! 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