2013-06-28
Join us for Transkaukazja in Warsaw from 26 to 30 June - for Panslavisms exhibition, conference and film program and great music finale on Saturday, 29 June in Krakowskie Przedmiescie Street.


Transkaukazja 2013
June 26-30, Warsaw
www.transkaukazja.pl

The Programme of the Transkaukazja Festival, Warsaw



CAUCASIAN CONCERT AND BAZAAR

Saturday, June 29
Krakowskie Przedmieście street (next to Europejski and Bristol hotels)
14:00 - 21:00 Caucasian bazaar
16:00 - 22:00 concert

16:00 Chveneburebi (Georgia) + Zumbaland (Georgia) + Ifi Ude (Poland/Nigeria)
19:00 33A (Georgia) + Vołosi (Poland) + Clive Brown & The Shekinah Singers (Great Britain)

The concert is the most spectacular Transkaukazja event, which takes place in Krakowskie Przedmieście next to Europejski and Bristol hotels). Invited groups perform imposing elements of diverse music styles - fusion, folk, funk, jazz, reggae, rock, gospel - referring to music and culture of countries, from which they came from. The concert is going to have two parts, three groups are going to perform in each one. Musicians are going to present their own repertoire and also commonly prepared singles, made especially for this occasion.

Concert is going to be accompanied by Caucasian market, created in cooperation with organizations and representatives of Warsaw Caucasian diaspora. Program of the market contains games, workshops (also for children), main elements of Caucasian culture like cuisine, shops, literature and open-air cinema.

Entry for all event is free!

www.transkaukazja.pl

Concert - Artists

Chveneburebi (Georgia)
One of the most recognized Georgian band, performing famous Georgian polyphony to the accompaniment of traditional instruments. The group consists of musical families representatives from different regions of Georgia. The Chvenebuerbi repeatedly took part in the biggest folk festival on Caucasus - Art Gene. What's more they cooperated with Polish band Psio Crew. Their common performances in Warsaw in 2008 and Tbiilisi in 2009 brought the house down not only in Poland but also in Georgia.

Zumbaland (Georgia)
One of the most popular band in Georgia. Musicians put together different kinds of music: jazz, fusion, folk, funk. rock. Their music is full of energy, performed with passion and versatility of sounds, showing many faces of Georgian identity.
www.zazakorinteli.com

Ifi Ude (Poland/Nigeria)
Composer, author of lyrics, vocalist and producer. Her songs are a combination of sensitive voice and tough d&b sounds. Hypnotizing trance walks with a minimalism of existence. Moreover, she puts together electronic music and acoustic instruments. She sings in Polish, English and Ibo.
www.ifiude.com.pl

Volosi (Poland)
The Volosi band is said to be a world stage revelation of last two years. On ‘New Tradition Festival in 2010’ they won all the possible prices. In 2011 Volosi got Grand Prix for the best world music song in European Broadcasting Union competition. The band consist of classical musicians - Krzysztof  and Stanisław Lasoń (Music Academy of Katowice) and traditional musicians (highlanders) - Zbigniew Michałek, Jan Kaczmarczyk and Robert Waszut.
www.volosiband.com

33a (Georgia)
Established by Niaz Diasamidze in 1994, the 33a band became a legend of present Georgian music. This band had a strong influence on character of a famous Georgian Rose Revolution, took part in creating one of the biggest ethnic music festival in their region called Art Gene. While listening to this music we can find a combination of more than one music styles (reggae, folk, rock) and also get to know very characteristic voice of Niaza Diasamidze and his specific instrument - the electrical version of a folk "panduri".
www.myspace.com/33a

Clive Brown & The Shekinah Singers (Great Britain)
The Shekinah Singers is a choir that puts together dynamic elements of a gospel music and funk. In this group we get to know students and teachers with Caribbean roots but living in Great Britain. Clive Brown is a conductor and music arranger, known for his unconventional methods of motivating and leading a band. He used to work with many British gospel choirs, like First Born Youth Choir, United Voices In Praise. The Clive Brown & The Shekinah Singers performance in 2008 was probably the first gospel concert on Caucasus.


PANSLAVISMS
EXHIBITION + CONFERENCE + FILM PROGRAM
Opening: June 26, 18.00–21.00
Conference: June 27, 17.00–21.00

Exhibition is open:
June 26–28, 17.00–21.00
June 29–30, 10.00–17.00

Former Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party,
Nowy Świat 6/12, Warsaw


Exhibition

Arnas Anskaitis (Vilnius), Levan Chogoshvili (Tbilisi), Linas Jablonskis (Vilnius), Dagna Jakubowska (Warszawa), Nana Kipiani (Tbilisi), Juozas Laivys (Plungė), Artūras Raila (Vilnius), Janek Simon (Kraków-Warszawa), Slavs & Tatars (Eurasia) and more.

Curated by Virginija Januškevičiūtė and Joanna Warsza

The general concept of Transkaukazja and its visual arts cycle depARTments is to seek for bases for future confederation of Caucasus. In order to do that we need serious critical studies of failed concepts of confederalizations. Interdisciplinary studies on Panslavism(s) is one of them.

Joanna Warsza:
One of the basic criticisms towards Edward Said’s Orientalism, the founding volume of the postcolonial studies, concerns the fact that the author examines the relations between the so-called the first and the third world, omitting the territories of half-peripheries such as Central Europe. The understanding how the colonial and postcolonial forces have been played in the cultural territories between Poland and its Slavic and non-Slavic neighbors offer the way to reread the post-soviet and post-communist condition, the ideology of the border territories nostalgically called ‘Kresy’, the constructs of westocentrism or panslavism or even the hidden agendas of so-called Eastern Partnership.

A five days exhibition accompanied by a conference and a film program is taking place in the restored part of the former Central Committee of the Polish United Workers’ Party, the same building where a military alliance known as the Warsaw Pact (“Union of peace and socialism”) was signed by eight countries of Central and Eastern Europe in 1955.

Transdisciplinary conference Pan-Slav(e)ism – Learning Modernity from Central and Eastern Europe
Daniel Beauvois (Paris), Andrzej Leder (Warsaw), Alexander Kiossev (Sofia), Anna Sosnowska (Warsaw),
Curated by Jan Sowa

The project is preceded by:
A book presentation by Slavs & Tatars moderated by Joanna Warsza at the Museum of Modern Art, Pańska 3, Warsaw: June 25, 19.00

Film module
During this year's Transkaukazja, in a special film and seminar module, we are going to think over Panslavism conception in terms of imperialisms and peripheral. Program was prepared by Marek Golonko in curator cooperation with Janek Sowa and guest participation of Jakub Majmurka, film expert, political scientist and publicist. On Sunday, at the end of pan-Slavizm, we are planning to arrange a screening and resuming discussion of a project.

Production: Marek Golonko and Jakub Majmurek


Supported by Culture Program of European Union. Funded by Minister of Culture and National Heritage of the Republic of Poland. Transkaukazja 2011 - 2013 is realized thanks to funds from The Capital City of Warsaw Municipal Office.

Contact:
transkaukazja@transkaukazja.pl


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