12.12.2018 Wednesday

Piotr Damasiewicz in Novi Sad

Autor: Culture Zone Wrocław

Cooperation with Novi Sad – city that will celebrate the title of European Capital of Culture in 2021 – was initiated in 2017 with a residency of Sonja Jankov – art curator who came to Wrocław to research the strategies of the development of the Ruska 46 abc yard, where a lot of organisations and individuals active in the field of art and culture work. In 2018 Anamarija Ranković – director of the Institute for culture Ruthenians in Voivodina – came to Wrocław in order to get to know the local environment with a special focus on the daily work of the team of the WRO Art Center.

Another part of our cooperation will take place between December and January in Novi Sad, where Piotr Damasiewicz - composer, arranger, trumpeter, educator and curator of international music platforms – will work during a residency. Thanks to the cooperation with the "European Capital of Culture Novi Sad 2021", Damasiewicz will work on his new material, drawing on the atmosphere and acoustics of historic temples, such as the synagogue, Orthodox church and Catholic church, as well as referring to the contemplative and meditative sphere of man. The choice of space is to emphasize the character of Damasiewicz's musical manifestation as a symbolic act of intercultural reconciliation. The series of concerts also includes two symbolic dates: 31 December, i.e. New Year's Eve celebrated in the Catholic Church and 13 January, i.e. Orthodox New Year, celebrated in Serbia.

The residency is also intended to serve as an attempt to get to know and understand the city of Novi Sad, the capital of multicultural and autonomous Vojvodina, through activities with local artists in the field of contemporary art in its broadest sense. Joint improvisations and interactions between music and other fields, such as visual arts, new media or dance, will be accompanied by meetings with representatives of music schools, academies of fine arts, theatres and other institutions and organisations, as well as lectures and workshops for students and residents of Novi Sad.

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