Pythia’s Journals. Pressefoto.
Pressemeddelelse, maj 2020
PYTHIA’S JOURNALS
– A monomedia festival for text, sound & visual art
Pythia's Journals er en online, monomedia kunstfestival for tekst, lyd og visuel kunst, der tilbyder forskellige muligheder for at tænke, handle og sanse os selv ind i fremtiden.
Pythia er navnet på et af oraklerne som udlagde gudernes tale i Delfi og blev betragtet som verdens centrum for godt 2500 år siden. Pythias navn kommer af det græske verbum píthin (= at rådne). Måske kan det anskues på den måde, at forestillinger om fremtiden og fremtiden selv er en proces som fremkommer ud af de ting der er ved at skifte form og betydning.
Kunstnerne Signe Vad og T.R. Kirstein har med et let strøg forsøgt at skabe en mulighed for at se nutiden skifte form ind i fremtiden. En hurtig, let og klar festival baseret i profetien – forestillinger om fremtiden. Hvilke former kan vi se, mærke og høre som kan skabe nye spørgsmål? Hvilke nye spørgsmål kan vi stille?
Deltagende kunstnere ved Pythia’s Journals: Elena Lundquist Ortiz, Alexander Holm og Stine Frandsen, Miss Fish, Nanna Gro Henningsen, Marja-leena Sillanpää (S), Francesca Burratelli (DK/IT) Leyya Mona Tawil/Lime Rickey International (US), Pär Thörn (S), Ursula Nistrup, Mycelium, John Duncan (US), Kristoffer Ørum, Marcela Lucatelli (Brasilien), Don Dietrich (US), Geraldine Hudson (UK), Marie Eline Hansen, Danielle Dahl (NO), Ragnhild May, Kristoffer Raasted, Frederikke Hoffmeyer/Puce Mary, Claus Haxholm, Jacob Lillemose og profetiske mix af Joachim Nordwall (S) Cejero DJs, Isak Tind.
Pythia’s Journals er støttet af Nordisk Kulturfond.
Live: 13. - 16. maj (og gløder online indtil torsdag d. 26. maj) 2020.
Festivalen åbner d. 13. maj og foregår indtil d. 16. maj. Alt materiale vil være tilgængeligt online indtil d. 26. maj (det vil ikke være muligt at få adgang til den online platformen før d 13. maj). Entréen er € 6,66 eller 50,- DKK for alle dage. Da festivalen opstod på meget kort tid, og på grund af den svære Corona-situation for kunstnere, går billetindtægter og andre donationer direkte til de deltagende kunstnere.
Pythia’s Journals. Pressefoto.
Pythia’s Journals. Pressefoto.
Pythia’s Journals. Pressefoto.
PYTHIA'S JOURNALS
Pythia’s Journals is a monomedia art festival for text, sound & visual art that offers different possibilities to think, act and sense ourselves into a future. Pythia was the interpreter of the curious singing sounds from the intoxicated oracles. She transformed the seemingly incoherent utterings coming from the hazy cave into cryptical prophetic messages for the curious. And we are so ever curious to read those journals from the future. So, this is not about the pandemic per se. This is about the future.
The inability to envision a future, because of an all-encompassing present time as a state of mind is one definition of depression (as described by Mikkel Krause Frantzen in his book Going Down Slow). Pythia’s Journals wanted to ease us out of this stasis by providing strange and radical artworks as possible and impossible futures. The internet of course has its own limitations, hence ‘monomedia’. On the other hand it offers a cheap, easy, and international forum across distances that are now otherwise closed down.
So we decided to make an online festival filled with a strange energy, with an easy touch and with swift decisions. It needed to be done in one fast and precise movement, a stroke of luck, when you hit the ball just right, as when the stone skips across the water it bounces impossibly on the surface.
We compiled a quick list of local and international artist and – though we had no money – we contacted them with this naïve and ambitious idea of creating a platform to think and envision futures on a medium that during lockdown seemed to be the only safe* public space where we could try to grasp what was going on. Most said yes. Thank you to all of you.
The artists are: Elena Lundquist Ortiz, Alexander Holm og Stine Frandsen, Miss Fish, Nanna Gro Henningsen, Marja-leena Sillanpää (S), Francesca Burratelli (DK/IT) Leyya Mona Tawil/Lime Rickey International (US), Pär Thörn (S), Ursula Nistrup, Mycelium, John Duncan (US), Kristoffer Ørum, Marcela Lucatelli (Brazil), Don Dietrich (US), Geraldine Hudson (UK), Marie Eline Hansen, Danielle Dahl (NO), Ragnhild May, Kristoffer Raasted, Frederikke Hoffmeyer/Puce Mary, Claus Haxholm, Jacob Lillemose and prophetic mixes by Joachim Nordwall (S) Cejero DJs, Isak Tind.
All adventurous, curious and radical artists in their own right.
This focus of artistic energy has resulted in a great collection of videos, texts, sounds and images mostly new and some older works set in a new context. Some short, some very long, some dark, some cryptical… all interesting and thought enticing. The festival starts on May 13 and goes on until May 16. New works are uploaded during these days. The artworks will then be online until may 26.
Pythia’s Journals is an online festival and we ask for the audience to buy a ticket to experience the art. Everything goes directly to the participating artists. We encourage you all to buy works directly from the artists and bandcamp. We are very grateful to Nordisk Kulturfonds opstartspulje for the quick decision to support the festival. All of this funding also goes to the participating artists. We hope that you will buy a ticket and enjoy this quickly established attempt to create something beautiful, interesting and prophetic. We hope you too can read the hazy singing that can bring us into a different future.
– Signe Vad & Tobias R. Kirstein.