Replica
The first international festival of experimental media art in Kazakhstan
The first international festival of experimental media art REPLICA will take place on the 7th of October 2006 in Almaty, Kazakhstan and will last twelve hours non-stop. It will show the participants wide spectrum of actual trends of modern culture.
"Replica" (in Russian means 'cue') is in the same time a comment to an event and also a form of this comment. When an actor hears a cue in a performance he must respond to it giving his own cue. REPLICA festival is our reaction to the events, which take place in the world of modern experimental media art in the last few tenth anniversaries. New forms and genres of art, which develop in the whole world, are represented in Kazakhstan very limited now. However an interest in contemporary musical and visual art exists and this interest is not so little; that can be testified by the high public attention to such kind of some cultural events. Modern audio-visual experiment is unique because of its unlimited possibilities for personal creativity. The main objective of the festival is showing these possibilities, increase the number of contacts between musicians, artists, designers from Central Asia and other countries of the world, and also making audience acquainted with the most interesting world trends in contemporary audio-visual art.
One of the most actual tendencies now is breaking of the borders between different genres, trends and art disciplines. In contemporary culture academic composition meets minimal-techno, ambient and microsound - post-rock, digital noise gets mixed up acoustic ethnic avan-garde, electro-acoustic improvisation transforms into sound- and video installations. And so one of the most important principles of the festival must be eclecticism, demonstration of different trends, all imaginable diversity of approaches to sound and visuals and also methods of work with material. Festival will give the demonstration of some subjective creative opinions revealing objective sides of the present moment of experimental art.
Projects from Poland, Ukraine, Russia, Austria, Georgia, Turkey, and Kazakhstan will be represented during REPLICA festival.
Organizers
Organizers of the festival:
[antiparty gang] creative group
Soros Center for Contemporary Art in Almaty
In the last four years they have held together several cultural events for growing an interest of Kazakh audience in contemporary culture. Among them not only little experimental actions but also large-scale festival of alternative club culture of Great Britain SOUNDVISION 2005 (together with British Council) with the participation of British musicians and VJs. In June 2006 [antiparty gang] participated in the festival of contemporary art "Kultplatforma" in Astana.
Now it's the moment to enlarge the circle of acquaintances and to integrate independent culture of Kazakhstan in global cultural community.
