For the past two years SEAS has produced over 15 artworks and presented them in unconventional places in 13 harbor towns from Istanbul to the North of Norway. 2010 will be a challenging year for SEAS, the framework of the project is being developed, into a more action-based platform. We return to the Black Sea region, focusing on Georgia, and new places in Turkey and Ukraine.
What is SEAS? According to Dragan Klaic
Dragan Klaic on SEAS "I am a veteran of SEAS events, but even for me it is not so easy to say what SEAS actually is. It is not a travelling circus, although at some moments it might look like one. And it is not really a festival, although it might be perceived as such. It is actually a prolonged, very strategic cultural action, connecting a number of European coastal cities and resorts.
SEAS descends with a large number of experts, producers and artists who connect with the local artistic scene, decision-makers, urban planners, architects and civic leaders, and create an informal network across Europe of cities that face the same or similar challenges of de-industrialisation, the exit from the industrial epoch, that seek to find in culture the inspiration, the energy, the binding force to identify some plausible alternatives for the future.
Since 2003, this is what SEAS has been doing in the Baltic Sea, in the area of the Adriatic Sea, along the Black Sea shore, and in the Northern European space. It is a unique action that has created a nomadic tribe of associated artists, experts, critics, producers and a growing number of local urban partners who see SEAS as a way to bring new energy, new ideas, new inspiration to the debates in their own cities about the future."
Dragan Klaic on SEAS "I am a veteran of SEAS events, but even for me it is not so easy to say what SEAS actually is. It is not a travelling circus, although at some moments it might look like one. And it is not really a festival, although it might be perceived as such. It is actually a prolonged, very strategic cultural action, connecting a number of European coastal cities and resorts.
