We did not, at the start of the project, realise how much re-designing of the project would be required as we went along. We expected some but from Intercult’s perspective, holding the responsibility for the project schedule, there was a time for research, a time for concept creation and planning and a time for implementation: [Read more...]
At the outset of SEAS we spoke a lot about the commissioning, coproducing and the events themselves seeing the presentation of the artworks as the “outcome” of the project. SEAS was obsessed with schedules and deadlines (amusingly satirised by Cristina David’s video piece NON-Linear Time.) This detail-obsession dominated Intercult’s thinking since we were responsible for [Read more...]
The coorganiser group contained hosting and producing organisations (eg Intercult itself, KIT, Tromso Kunstforening etc) and arts companies (BADco and Hotel Proforma). In retrospect, this was an uneasy fit. The hosting/producing organisations had responsibility either for activities scheduled throughout the project (for example Intercult and Sfumato) or for events that were sometimes two and a [Read more...]
It was a major gamble and proved to be a huge challenge to begin the project presentations in Ukraine. Not only did we have 14 new shows but most of the shows we had not seen, our technical team had no experience of presenting the productions, and some of them had not even been in [Read more...]
