Permission was refused by the City Council to allow the use of the City Garden for Siri Hermansen’s Borderline and Dritero Kasapi and Venelin Shurelov’s Fantomat project this morning. Local authorities insisted on the removal of the Fantomats and Borderline from the public space of the City Garden in the centre of Odessa on the instructions of the Vice Mayor.
Intercult and SEAS in consultation with the artists themselves and after discussions with the park department, the head of culture and the head of international relations reached a compromise which required SEAS to move the projects into the main street of Odessa, Deribasovskaya, next to the square.