Moldova Camping - Art and Culture of the Republic of Moldova
Within this project, artists, actors and performers from the Republic of Moldova travelled to Berlin and camped at the theatre "Hebbel am Ufer". In their luggage: theatre, art and information about their country. The artists represented their country not by performing on a big stage, but by telling stories and getting in contact with the audience in a relaxed camping atmosphere.
Greetings from Transnistria (staged reading)
In April 2008, the German author Tanja Dückers and the moldavian dramatist Nicoleta Esinencu travelled through Transnistria, and each day, they wrote us postcards from a non-existing country: This part of the Republic of Moldova, situated in the East of the country, separated itself from the Republic, but is not recognized internationally. A staged reading with Nina Kronjäger and Astrid Meyerfeldt.
√.md (theatre)
Internationally acclaimed, the dramatist Nicoleta Esinencu is due to her political explosive texts a controversial person in her home. Without any taboos, she describes how the Rebublic of Moldova deals with its communistic history and its quest for a new position between the Russian Federation and the European Union.
Tent Event: The artist Pavel Braila and the "Kollektiv Fischka" invite in the tent (Performance)
The internationally well-known video artist Pavel Braila (Chişinău/Berlin) had a concept for a Moldova Camping performance about absurdities and tragicomical everyday life stories in the Republic of Moldova. For "Moldova Camping", the Moldavian-Austrian collective "Fischka" developed the integrative, multimedia-based, propagandistic, Sovietophile, cosmopolitan, charming and overbearing performance "5th attempt to raise a transnistrial fragment of reality".
Transnistria © Kollektiv Fischka/fischka.com
Discourse showers (speeches)
In the "discourse showers", short speeches were held with information, political facts and personal statements of artists, writers, curators, intellectuals and politicians from the Republic of Moldova.
Vending machine "Молдова- Автомат"
The automat "Молдова- Автомат", developed especially for Moldova Camping, offered products from the Republic of Moldova: like souvenirs or gifts, things to tell or to show off. If you putted in a coin, the "Молдова- Автомат" revealed anecdotes connected with the product and the people behind, it pointed at the distinctiveness of the product, and informed about its cultural background and economical importance.
Performances:
June 17 and 18, 2008
Project partner:
Isabel Raabe & Franziska Sauerbrey/büro für kulturelle angelegenheiten (management), Hauptstadtkulturfonds, Goethe-Institut Bukarest, Department for Foreign Affairs Berlin, Goethe-Zentrum Iasi, Mobile European Trailer Theatre (METT) Chişinău, Theatre Hebbel am Ufer Berlin
The support by the "Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung" enabled the guest performance at the festival "Theaterformen" in Braunschweig.
