Anne Thomassen

ArtGenda, Hamburg/Germany 2002

Temp participated in:
FAIR - self made matches,
Something about selforganisation in the field of visual art,
SYMPOSIUM and presentation platform for artist run spaces and projects.

ArtGenda is the interdisciplinary biennial of young art in the Baltic Sea region, in which a maximum of 19 cities* are involved: A forum for presentation, communication and cooperation for individual artists and artist groups between the ages of 18 and 30 from the fields of visual arts, live arts and media arts. Above all, ArtGenda is a network that is increasingly active between the biennials.

ArtGenda has so far taken place in Copenhagen (96), Stockholm (98) and Helsinki (2000). The organizer of ArtGenda 2002 is the cultural authority of the Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg.

From June 7th to 22nd, around 200 artists from the Baltic Sea region will be in Hamburg and take part in projects. In the course of the last year, groups from Hamburg have presented sponsorship projects into which the Baltic artists can integrate. In a long-term matching process, this led to a selection of both the artists to be sent and the sponsored projects funded by the cultural authorities. reproducts participates with the AV-Clash. The concept is to have film and video material that ArtGenda artists bring with them live set to music by other ArtGenda artists at three events. The clashes happen without rehearsal, only through the selection of reproducts a dramaturgy of the evenings is offered.

Participating cities are: Copenhagen, Aarhus, Oslo, Bergen, Stockholm, Gothenborg, Malmö, Helsinki, Turku, St. Petersburg, Kaliningrad, Tallinn, Riga, Vilnius, Gdansk, Szczecin, Rostock, Hamburg, Kiel.

ArtGenda 2002 in Hamburg was the last event of the major Baltic project.