MEETING OF STYLES - St. Petersburg

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PRESS INFORMATION 06.08.2012
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GERMAN-RUSSIAN
STREET ART & GRAFFITI PROJECT
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takes part of
MEETING OF STYLES - St. Petersburg
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The German-Russian Street Art & Graffiti project is part of the cultural programme of the Germany Year in Russia 2012-2013. It’s initiated
by the Hip Hop Stützpunkt – Berlin, a culture & network house in Berlin
and organized together with partners from Berlin (Berlin Massive e.V.),
St. Petersburg (Multivision, Funk Fanatix) and Moscow (True Stilo Crew,
ilovegraffiti.ru).
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Artists and organizers from both sides work together and build new relationships and co-operations. The project started officially in July 2012
when the artists TRUN and SUPER from St. Petersburg joined a painting
programme in Berlin and took part of the URBAN SYNDROMES – Graffiti Festival in Dresden.
From 8-12th of August the German artists CREN (Berlin), KAYO (Cologne), PETS (Hannover), SLIDER (Dresden) and ZEBSTER (Mainz)
joining the MOS – the MEETING OF STYLES – Urban Art Festival in St.
Petersburg.
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The MEETING OF STYLES event series was created by Manuel Gerullis
from Wiesbaden in 2002. After the Schlachtfof – a huge old fabric and
the biggest Hall of Fame in Europe was closed down - and not available
for events Gerullis transformed the yearly meeting of urban artists from
all over Europe to an travelling event and the MEETING OF STYLES
was born. Since 2002 more than 120 editions all over the world were
held in Europe, Russia, United States, Latin- and South America; joined
by over 120.000 visitors and artists. In St. Petersburg the MEETING OF
STYLES was held 3 times already. Over a period of 3-7 days artist meet
to design big walls and facade’s in public space and to exchange. MOS
is a free urban art festival that attracts visitors of every age.
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This year the MEETING OF STYLES is part of the graFFFest, an multimedia Urban Art Festival in St Petersburg, organized by Multivision and
directed by Svetlana Petrova. The festival takes place from the 1st – till
the 18th of August on various locations all over St. Petersburg. For details see the press information of graFFFest.
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The German-Russian Street Art & Graffiti project supports MEETING OF
STYLES and graFFFest to upgrade the exchange of artists from Germany and Russia and to pave the way for future projects and co-operations
– especially when in 2013 the Russia Year in Germany takes place.
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The International Art-Forum graFFFest 2012 program:
10th of August @ Red Banner Culture Centre,
“Krasnoye Znamya” - 57 Pionerskaya street)
12am - 9pm: MEETING OF STYLES - Opening & Artist Meeting
5-7pm: LECTURE „Hip Hop Culture in Germany“ by ZEBSTER
11-12th of August, @ Red Banner Culture Centre,
“Krasnoye Znamya” - 57 Pionerskaya street)
12am - 9pm: MEETING OF STYLES - Urban Art Festival
17-18th of August, @ Hermitage side of the Palace Bridge,
1.30-4.30am: graFFFest - Street Art Jam
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Turning the wing of the drawn Palace bridge into a 400 m2 screen, showing video graffiti, works of photo contest winners, contest movie programs of art forum: Animation movies – ‘Urban legends”, internet movies “Cats in the City” and also a program of silent
animation accompanied with live music due to the 100 years of the Russian Animation.
There will be a concert of Hip-hop stars to support the actual and new art.
Admissions for all events is free !!!
For more information contact:
graFFFest:
Multivision Foundation
Svetlana Petrova
Tel/fax 7-812-5756880
Tel. 7-812 9360373
Mob +79219360373
[email protected]
http://www.grafffest.ru/
German-Russian Graffiti Project:
Hip Hop Stützpunkt - Berlin
Akim Walta
Tel. +49-30-21021-8671
tel. 7 812 9360373
mob +49-177-6870001
[email protected]
http://www.fhtf.de/
GERMAN GRAFFITI ARTISTS
in St. Petersburg
ZEBSTER / AKIM WALTA
Akim Walta aka Zebster aka Zeb.Roc.Ski is a Hip Hop artist, activists,
global networker, and author/publisher of several publications (Zebster,
2012; Hip Hop Files, 2004; Graffiti Art Germany, 1994; MZEE – Magazine, 1992; On The Run – Magazine, 1990). He got involved in Hip Hop
culture in the early ‘80s as b-boy and graffiti writer, and shortly afterwards started to organize early Hip Hop jams, festivals, and rap tours in
Germany and Europe. He published the first European graffiti magazine
with color pages called “On The Run” and created the German Hip Hop
magazine MZEE. Through his projects, Walta got involved in the music
scene as manager, promoter, and producer.
In 1992, he founded the label MZEE Records, well known for its early
German rap releases and the series „Strictly B-Boy Breaks“. In 2004,
MZEE Records celebrated its 100th release. MZEE Records is part of
FROM HERE TO FAME (FHTF), a Hip Hop network based in Berlin.
Since 1995 FHTF is building up structures in the Hip Hop community
including artist and structure development. FHTF managed the Breakdance World Championship BATTLE OF THE YEAR and other important
Hip Hop events such as MZEE FRISCH.
In 2007 Walta and network partners created the Hip Hop Stützpunkt ;
an old electricity factory that was developed to a cultural network house.
The future target of this project is to bring an open non-profit project on
the way: the Campus of urban youth cultures that will incl. a Museum for
Urban Art. This vision brought Walta to the 2010 World Expo in Shanghai
where he ran the urban culture programmes for the German Pavilion “balancity” (Koel Messe International, Federal Ministry of Economics). To get
a wider acceptance for hip hop culture he ran lately many formal projects
in the Germany years in China, India and soon also in Russia and Brasil.
CREN / MICHEL PIETSCH
The half french, half german born graffiti artist CREN live in Berlin and
start his paintings in 1989. His specialties are the styles, the “game”
with the letters. Together with Baxe he found the CBR crew in 1992. His
graffiti work has taken him throughout Europe and the United States. In
Hannover he organized the Culture-Crossing Graffiti Meeting with international guests.
KAYO / KAY BREYER
Kay Breyer aka KAYO from Cologne starts with graffiti in 1996. He likes
to change his environment and to influence, to provoke reactions, to
be different, to be awake when everyone is asleep. Kayo works as wall
painter, illustrator and graphic designer. His works has taken him throughout many countries and now to his first project in Russia.
KAYO /
SLIDER / SEBASTIAN GIRBIG
Sebastian Girbig aka SLIDER from Dresden was one of the founders of the
Bandits Crew in 1994. His specialty are the characters. The Bandits wins the
2nd place of Write4Gold 2011. They are engaged in many writer exchanges,
so with France and China. The homebase for their social commitments is the
“Spike” youth center in Dresden. Here they teach the youngsters in creative
diciplines and organize the “Urban Syndromes” Graffiti festival every year.
PETS / PATRICK WALTON
Patrick Walton aka PETS was born in 1980 in Hanau (near Frankfurt), grew up
in Hamburg, Miami and Hanover. Now he lives in Hanover. He started with comics, than became interested in graphic design and now he’s doing both. BA in
Advertising Design, his thesis theme is „orientation and identity“. He studied art/
urban art, attended seminars and trainings, focusing on youth and their enviroment.
PETS
Проект спонсирован из средств
Года Германии в России 2012/13.
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PRESS INFORMATION 06.08.2012
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The international
graFFFest
2012
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Art Forum
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St. Petersburg
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On August 10-18 Saint Petersburg will host for the second time graFFFest - graffiti, street and public art forum. The project main theme is
- synthesis of street and digital art being one of the most actual trends
in contemporary street art development. Progressive and dynamically
made graffiti and street art interfere with other genres, absorbing their
artistic methods in return as well. It’s within this tendency, that the main
focus of art forum will be put on influence of graffiti and other kinds of
modern art: animation, movies, photos, digital and internet art.
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graFFFest is succession of “Multivision” public screens project, that
started back in 2007-2008 with a “Small movie for the Big City” – when
animation movies were shown on drawbridges of Saint-Petersburg.
graFFFest’ was created, developed and performed by the team of the International festival of animation arts “Multivision” and a igeologist behind
it, Svetlana Petrova.
Within graFFFest on August 10-12 there will be the Russian event of
Meeting of Styles – The largest graffiti fest in the world, headquatered
in Wiesbaden. The territory of Centre of Culture “Red Banner” will be decorated with works of Russian and German artists + international guests.
There will be a master class of iconic Hip-Hop artist Akim Walta aka Zeb.
Roc.Ski, aka Zebster (Germany), performance of B-boys and Hip-Hop
musicians.
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The following world recognized artist will participate in decoration of the walls: ZEBSTER(GER), KAYO(GER), SLIDER(GER)
CREN(GER), PETS (GER) and others, along with Russian participants
– graffiti and street atists: Truba (TADFF), Wais (TAD), Pacer (TADSYN),
Kreal (TAD), Sindik/brow (US), LIQUID (Minsk) Retro (TAD), Roof 169/
Folmer, Floksy, Fuze (TRS), Pats, Cberio (S&T), Petro, Slak, Suga, Vedro (AES), Sodk, Yeka Haski, Ukey(Update), Sneg (Update), Lublue, Trun
(TADFF), Super(158FF) and others.
The pinnacle of the art forum will be Street Art Jam - the night from August 17 to 18 the erected
“wing” of a drawn Palace bridge will become a 400 m2 screen, where works of photo-competition
winners, art forum short movies competition programs: animation films “Urban Legends”, internet
movies – “Cats in the City” and video graffiti will be screened.
There will be a Hip-Hop concert organized in front of the Palace Bridge. graFFFest will commemorate the 100th anniversary of Russian animation with silent animation of Vladislav Starevich - the
first Russian animator, accompanied with live music. Tens of thousands locals and tourists of
Saint-Petersburg will witness this unique street performance.
This digital graffiti and animation projection onto the Palace Bridge during the graFFFest is a massive and unique public art event even on the world scale. Along with this ambitious street event,
graFFFest will feature a number of other street performances and master-classes to Saint-Petersburg – we plan to open a monument of 100 years of Russian aviation, decorated in graffiti style,
run an action of painting the city advertisement boards by street artists, along with creating new
showpieces for the Museum of Winter Sport on “Igora” resort territory – snowboards painted with
graffiti. All graFFFest events will have free access, a standard expectation for a public art event.
The first time the forum was held in Aug 14-21 2011. The International art forum graFFFest 2011
became the world’s first large scale project to unite street art and digital art. The pinnacle event of
the project was Street Art Jam by the Palace Bridge, that was visited by over 15000 people.
A new show-place emerged in Saint-Petersburg, a graffiti wall 120 meters long on Korpusnaya
street on Petrogradskaya Side city district.
2012 news:
The selection of works for graFFFest contests is on! Those selected will be featured to people of
Saint-Petersburg and it’s visitors on a giant screen of Palace Bridge within Street Art Jam.
graFFFest 2012 Art Forum 2012 competitions:
1.
Auteur graffiti photo on www.grafffest.ru
Since July 15 on graFFFest 2012 site (www.grafffest.ru) starts a contest of auteur graffiti-photos.
Send photos of existing graffiti (not sketches!). These photos will be placed at special site of the
festival. The best graffiti photos will be shown on 17-18 August overnight on the erected wing of
drawn Palace Bridge. Anyone interested can send his work to this contest. The mandatory condition is to state the name and creative alias of the graffiti author (not of the one who pictured it). It
will be the graffiti author to get nominated for the art forum prize.
2.
“Urban Legends” themed contest for best animation
The modern city jungles inhabitants culture is full of spontaneous collective creative work, just as
was the culture of primal forests and cages. The folklore role is now served by internet mems, the
net projects became modern myths, while computer games and flash mobs are playing the role of
the rituals and graffiti is our cave rock painting art. The legends and myths of modern city civilization is the contest films theme.
3. Best animation or feature internet film “Cats in the City” competition
Only movies that are hosted on Youtube or Vimeo and that took no less than 100 000 views participate.The contest is
devoted to the image of a cat, as a totemic animal of a modern city man – and a muse of street art
and internet art. The omnipresence and independence – that’s what Anonymous, the main inhabitant of the Net values most. The amazing gift of infiltrating somewhere with “no access” sign,
and doing what you want – that’s what a street artist likes in the cat. And to the megapolis resident
to stroke a cat is about the only chance to get in touch with living nature. A cat is a trickster – converts the vanity of the city streets into the internet traffic, bringing up CATartic laughter from urban
residents, sick of civilization. A Kitteh – ubique and omnipotent, is the hero of our contest.
The contest curator is the notorious art-CRISPticist Zaratustra the Cat (www.fatcatart.ru), recently
hitting 4 000 000 views with his online exhibition http://imgur.com/a/K4wsg
The International Art-Forum graFFFest 2012 program
July-August 2012
Auteur graffiti-photo contest on www.grasfffest.ru
Accepting applications for participation in contests of art forum graFFFest 2012
1-17 Aug, ad boards on the city streets
“Open air street art museum” – street performance on decoration of ad boards with pictures, done
in graffiti and street art style
10-12 Aug, Red Banner Culture Centre
Within graFFFest there will be a Meeting of Styles, a largest graffiti fest in the world Russian event
17-18 Aug, 1.30-4.30 At night, the Hermitage side of the Palace Bridge
Street Art Jam on the wing of the drawn Palace bridge turning into a 400 m2 screen, showing video graffiti, works of photo contest winners, contest movie programs of art forum:
Animation movies – ‘Urban legends”, internet movies “Cats in the City” and also a program of silent animation accompanied with live music due to the 100 years of the Russian Animation.
There will be a concert of Hip-hop stars to support the actual and new art.
Admissions free
Details of the program
July-August 2012
Auteur graffiti photo contest at www.grasfffest.ru with visitors voting!
Taking applications for participation is movie contests of graFFFest 2012 art forum.
Contest on best animation movie with “Urban Legends” theme.
Animation and short internet films “Cats in the City” contest
Meeting of Styles – the Russian session
August 10 to 12 , “Krasnoye Znamya” (Red Banner) Culture Cenre - 57 Pionerskaya street
Within graFFFest there will be held the Russian event of Meeting of Styles – the world’s largest
graffiti festival from Berlin. In 1997-2011 this festival ran over 120 events in 17 countries with over
35 000 artists able to show themselves.
The Russian Meeting of Styles Session will combine walls decoration, a master class of German
graffiti and hip-hop icon Akim Walta aka Zeb.Roc.Ski aka Zebster along with performances of bboys and hip hopers, DJ’s and MC’s .
The walls will be decorated by world leading graffiti artists: ZEBSTER(GER), OGRE(FR),
KAYO(GER), SLIDER(GER) CREN(GER), PETS (GER) and others, along with Russian participants – graffiti and street artists. Truba (TADFF), Wais (TAD), Pacer (TADSYN), Kreal (TAD),
Sindik/brow (US), LIQUID (МINSK) RETRO (TAD), Roof 169/Folmer, Floksy, Fuze (TRS), Pats,
Cberio (S&T), Petro, Slak, Suga, Vedro (AES), Sodk, Yeka Haski, Ukey(Update), Sneg (Update),
Lublue, Trun (TADFF), Super(158FF) and others.
Open air street art museum
Aug 1-17, advertisement boards on city streets
Street performance on decoration of ad boards with graffiti and street art styled pictures along with
street art posters. These pictures will stay on the boards for 2 weeks entertaining people of Saint
Petersburg
The graffiti monument of 100 years of aviation
During the celebration of 100 years of the Russian aviation the international graFFFest 2012 art
forum brings a present to Saint-Petersburg people – a new monument will appear in the town! A
model of the first airplane, decorated by Saint-Petersburg graffiti artists, will be placed at one of
the city’s squares..
Street Art Jam Performance
Aug 17-18 overnight 1.30 – 4.30, Palace Bridge, the Hermitage side
Video graffiti works, results of auteur graffiti photo contest
“The Urban Legends” International contest program of animation movies in street-art and graffiti
style. International program of short animation and art internet movies “Cats in the City”
Special program about the 100 years of Russian animation: silent animation with live music.
Concert of the Russian Hip-Hop stars
Admissions for all events is free !!!
For more information contact:
graFFFest:
Multivision Foundation
Svetlana Petrova
Tel/fax 7-812-5756880
Tel. 7-812 9360373
Mob +79219360373
[email protected]
http://www.grafffest.ru/
Проект спонсирован из средств
Года Германии в России 2012/13.