An artistic parade with the performance of Prishtina Brass, a professional brass ensemble, combined with emotional vibes of parkourists that will be following the steps of the Giant of the Festival. Come and open up together with us starting from Zahir Pajaziti square, through Mother Theresa Boulevard to end in Ibrahim Rugova square, where we will place the Giant that will open this years HAPU - The Festival for Art in Public Space. Music, acrobatics and a rediscovery of our common space guided by our animators will lead you to this incredible experience.

Sunday, 6th September at 20:00h, starting point Zahir Pajaziti square, ending point Ibrahim Rugova square.

Prishtina Brass: Avni Krasniqi - Trumpet; Ardit Pira - Trumpet; Betim Krasniqi - Trombone; Ilir Livoreka - Trombone; Bledar Bujupi - French Horn; Meriton Ferati - Tuba.
Parkurists: Vigan Osmani, Ardit Hasangjekaj, Arbër Bajrami, Leonor Pacolli,  Rrezart Sertolli.
Animators: Vjosa Malokaj, Egzona Salihu, Fiona Gllavica.
 

Sunday, 6th September at 21:30h - Sounds of Ilir Bajri and friends that will open the Festival and the evening program in the parking of ODA Theatre. 

OPEN NEST is called the evening program in ODA theatre that is the night meeting point of the public and the artists.

Action in public space. The artist, Alban Muja, invites you overpass near the roundabout. A dislocation of art lovers into a space designated for citizens movements.

The biggest and only overpass that is build in one of most frequented streets looks like is not the right solution for citizens needs. The inevitable question is what study has been conducted before the building of this costly overpass.

In "You are above everything" Alban Muja invites you that at least for one hour this overpass to have its own "guests". Enjoy this premiere experience, we believe.

Monday, 7th September at 20:00h, str. Fehmi Lladrovci - Entering the Overpass at the side of the Medical School "Ali Sokoli"


http://albanmuja.blogspot.com/
 
 

Monday, 7th September at 20:45h Albania – Portugal on the big screen, where fans, artists and the Festivals public can experience Albania’s emotions before the qualification for Euro 2016, and after the game: 

OPEN NEST is called the evening program in ODA theatre that is the night meeting point of the public and the artists.

Monday, 7th September at 22:30h Edona Reshitaj and her band bringing an atmosphere with amazing sounds and voice. 

OPEN NEST is called the evening program in ODA theatre that is the night meeting point of the public and the artists.

OPEN TALK is part of the program, where you can hear more from artists themselves and talk with them for art in public space, their approach, what we miss and what bothers us, presentations and workshops. 

Interactive installation. People arrive and people leave, migration is a worldwide phenomenon with many different motivations: People move from one country to another, they move from the countryside into the city. These wanderings also frequently have an effect on the social status of people, with the result that in addition to a change in geographical location, movement also occurs between social classes and contexts. In “Hello and Goodbye” Kunstlabor from Graz, Austria and Teatri ODA from Prishtina, Kosovo document individual stories of arrival and departure on their journey across Europe – the trip started in March 2013 – and they penetrate through to the roots of the migration phenomenon, examining the change that is taking place in a geographical and social context in the many different regions of Europe.

Inside "Aeropolis" (created by Marco Canevvacci from Plastique Fantastique, Berlin, Germany) we invite the audience moving inside the bubble to experience  artistically these stories by also adding their own experience.

Kunstlabor: Julia Laggner, Edith Draxl, Wolfgang Rappel, Andrea Fischer
Teatri ODA: Florent Mehmeti
Albanian translation: Vilson Marku

Tuesday, 8th September from 16:00h - 20:00h
Wednesday, 9th September from 10:00h - 13:00h and from 18:00 - 21:00h
Thursday, 10th September from 10:00h - 13:00h
Square at Prishtina Townhall, Përmendorja

http://www.kunstlabor.net/
http://www.uni-t.org/
www.teatrioda.com

HELLO AND GOODBYE has received a Residence Aid by the IN SITU network in the frame of the META project.  This project has been funded with support from the European Commission (DGEAC – Culture programme).
 

Performance by Haveit conceived to be performed in different public spaces. Questioning  what is private and what is public, Haveit invites you to have an experience, a personal service  with personal and intimate stories and experiences. Discover an almost vanished service in public areas.  But, did the suppression and violence vanished too? 

Come and find out yourself, bring your friend, your boyfriend, your husband or your father on:

Tuesday, 8th September from 19:00h - the Plateau of PTK building in Dardania.
Wednesday, 9th September from 18:00h - Zahir Pajaziti square, or
Friday, 11th September from 17:00h - Ibrahim Rugova square


HAVEIT (Alketa Sylaj, Hana Qena, Vesa Qena, Arbërore Sylaj) is a group of four women that tend to go beyond everyday pleasure, moralistic rules and refuse to agree with the matters that are being served.
They won't do anything except tell their and your story! The group was established in 2011, Prishtina, Kosovo.


https://www.facebook.com/haveit
 

Tuesday, 8th September at 21:00h Concert with Alternative/Post-rock music from Zhaba Band, continuing with Techno music by Toma. 

OPEN NEST is called the evening program in ODA theatre that is the night meeting point of the public and the artists.

OPEN TALK is part of the program, where you can hear more from artists themselves and talk with them for art in public space, their approach, what we miss and what bothers us, presentations and workshops. 

Tuesday, 8th September at 21:00h Concert with Alternative/Post-rock music from Zhaba Band, continuing with Techno music by Toma. 

OPEN NEST is called the evening program in ODA theatre that is the night meeting point of the public and the artists.

Interactive installation. People arrive and people leave, migration is a worldwide phenomenon with many different motivations: People move from one country to another, they move from the countryside into the city. These wanderings also frequently have an effect on the social status of people, with the result that in addition to a change in geographical location, movement also occurs between social classes and contexts. In “Hello and Goodbye” Kunstlabor from Graz, Austria and Teatri ODA from Prishtina, Kosovo document individual stories of arrival and departure on their journey across Europe – the trip started in March 2013 – and they penetrate through to the roots of the migration phenomenon, examining the change that is taking place in a geographical and social context in the many different regions of Europe.

Inside "Aeropolis" (created by Marco Canevvacci from Plastique Fantastique, Berlin, Germany) we invite the audience moving inside the bubble to experience  artistically these stories by also adding their own experience.

Kunstlabor: Julia Laggner, Edith Draxl, Wolfgang Rappel, Andrea Fischer
Teatri ODA: Florent Mehmeti
Albanian translation: Vilson Marku

Tuesday, 8th September from 16:00h - 20:00h
Wednesday, 9th September from 10:00h - 13:00h and from 18:00 - 21:00h
Thursday, 10th September from 10:00h - 13:00h
Square at Prishtina Townhall, Përmendorja

http://www.kunstlabor.net/
http://www.uni-t.org/
www.teatrioda.com

HELLO AND GOODBYE has received a Residence Aid by the IN SITU network in the frame of the META project.  This project has been funded with support from the European Commission (DGEAC – Culture programme).
 

Theatrical experience, unique experience of joy and sorrow existing between invisible walls. You are given a passport to access this journey made from Kosovo's real life.

“Invisible walls” is a remarkable story of people trapped, in isolation, surrounded by invisible walls.  The stories told of war torn Kosovo are drawn from the real life experiences of the actors and their friends and families. The audience are provided with passports that take them on a touching and sometimes intimate  experience where they discover the isolation and physical and psychological pressure, the impossibility of enjoying basic human rights and the joy of small freedoms. A truly international production supported by the IN SITU network “Invisible Walls" was devised by the company in collaboration with artists from  the UK, France and Austria.  It was premiered at the Oerol Festival Netherlands to critical acclaim and performed 28 times during the Festival.

"Invisible walls" performed also in Edinburgh Festival in the Summerhall program, one of the most prestigious venues in Edinburgh Festival. As a sign of respect and solidarity with the show and with ODA Theatre, , Summerhall raised Kosovo flags at the top of the building , which is not usual or tradition but was a special gesture  after the experience from the director and owner of Summerhall,  Mr. Robert McDowel. Flags have stayed during the whole month of the Edinburgh Festival.


[R]  To reserve your place you should take a (free) ticket in ODA Theatre. "Invisible walls" will have two experiences:

Wednesday, 9th September at 17:00h and
Wednesday, 9th September at 18:00h. 

The site of the National Library of Kosovo

Producers: Florent Mehmeti, Lirak Çelaj, Teatri ODA, Prishtina, Kosovo
International producer: Neil Butler, UZ Arts, Glasgow, UK
Director: Florent Mehmeti, Kosovo
Co-director: Jon Beedell, Desperate Men - UK
Visual / installation artists: Henry Jesionka, Austria / Canada & Veton Gusia, Kosovo
Choreographer: Ali Salmi, France
Music: Armend Xhaferi, Kosovo;
Actors: Kushtrim Qerimi, Liridona Shehu, Eshref Durmishi, Semira Latifi & Gani Rrahmani (Kosovo)


www.teatrioda.com 

 

Theatrical experience, unique experience of joy and sorrow existing between invisible walls. You are given a passport to access this journey made from Kosovo's real life.

“Invisible walls” is a remarkable story of people trapped, in isolation, surrounded by invisible walls.  The stories told of war torn Kosovo are drawn from the real life experiences of the actors and their friends and families. The audience are provided with passports that take them on a touching and sometimes intimate  experience where they discover the isolation and physical and psychological pressure, the impossibility of enjoying basic human rights and the joy of small freedoms. A truly international production supported by the IN SITU network “Invisible Walls" was devised by the company in collaboration with artists from  the UK, France and Austria.  It was premiered at the Oerol Festival Netherlands to critical acclaim and performed 28 times during the Festival.

"Invisible walls" performed also in Edinburgh Festival in the Summerhall program, one of the most prestigious venues in Edinburgh Festival. As a sign of respect and solidarity with the show and with ODA Theatre, , Summerhall raised Kosovo flags at the top of the building , which is not usual or tradition but was a special gesture  after the experience from the director and owner of Summerhall,  Mr. Robert McDowel. Flags have stayed during the whole month of the Edinburgh Festival.


[R]  To reserve your place you should take a (free) ticket in ODA Theatre. "Invisible walls" will have two experiences:

Wednesday, 9th September at 17:00h and
Wednesday, 9th September at 18:00h. 

The site of the National Library of Kosovo

Producers: Florent Mehmeti, Lirak Çelaj, Teatri ODA, Prishtina, Kosovo
International producer: Neil Butler, UZ Arts, Glasgow, UK
Director: Florent Mehmeti, Kosovo
Co-director: Jon Beedell, Desperate Men - UK
Visual / installation artists: Henry Jesionka, Austria / Canada & Veton Gusia, Kosovo
Choreographer: Ali Salmi, France
Music: Armend Xhaferi, Kosovo;
Actors: Kushtrim Qerimi, Liridona Shehu, Eshref Durmishi, Semira Latifi & Gani Rrahmani (Kosovo)


www.teatrioda.com 

 

Interactive installation. People arrive and people leave, migration is a worldwide phenomenon with many different motivations: People move from one country to another, they move from the countryside into the city. These wanderings also frequently have an effect on the social status of people, with the result that in addition to a change in geographical location, movement also occurs between social classes and contexts. In “Hello and Goodbye” Kunstlabor from Graz, Austria and Teatri ODA from Prishtina, Kosovo document individual stories of arrival and departure on their journey across Europe – the trip started in March 2013 – and they penetrate through to the roots of the migration phenomenon, examining the change that is taking place in a geographical and social context in the many different regions of Europe.

Inside "Aeropolis" (created by Marco Canevvacci from Plastique Fantastique, Berlin, Germany) we invite the audience moving inside the bubble to experience  artistically these stories by also adding their own experience.

Kunstlabor: Julia Laggner, Edith Draxl, Wolfgang Rappel, Andrea Fischer
Teatri ODA: Florent Mehmeti
Albanian translation: Vilson Marku

Tuesday, 8th September from 16:00h - 20:00h
Wednesday, 9th September from 10:00h - 13:00h and from 18:00 - 21:00h
Thursday, 10th September from 10:00h - 13:00h
Square at Prishtina Townhall, Përmendorja

http://www.kunstlabor.net/
http://www.uni-t.org/
www.teatrioda.com

HELLO AND GOODBYE has received a Residence Aid by the IN SITU network in the frame of the META project.  This project has been funded with support from the European Commission (DGEAC – Culture programme).
 

Performance by Haveit conceived to be performed in different public spaces. Questioning  what is private and what is public, Haveit invites you to have an experience, a personal service  with personal and intimate stories and experiences. Discover an almost vanished service in public areas.  But, did the suppression and violence vanished too? 

Come and find out yourself, bring your friend, your boyfriend, your husband or your father on:

Tuesday, 8th September from 19:00h - the Plateau of PTK building in Dardania.
Wednesday, 9th September from 18:00h - Zahir Pajaziti square, or
Friday, 11th September from 17:00h - Ibrahim Rugova square


HAVEIT (Alketa Sylaj, Hana Qena, Vesa Qena, Arbërore Sylaj) is a group of four women that tend to go beyond everyday pleasure, moralistic rules and refuse to agree with the matters that are being served.
They won't do anything except tell their and your story! The group was established in 2011, Prishtina, Kosovo.


https://www.facebook.com/haveit
 

OPEN TALK is part of the program, where you can hear more from artists themselves and talk with them for art in public space, their approach, what we miss and what bothers us, presentations and workshops. 

Wednesday, 9th September at 22:00h in collaboration with Urban FM - DJ MIX 

OPEN NEST is called the evening program in ODA theatre that is the night meeting point of the public and the artists.

Interactive installation. People arrive and people leave, migration is a worldwide phenomenon with many different motivations: People move from one country to another, they move from the countryside into the city. These wanderings also frequently have an effect on the social status of people, with the result that in addition to a change in geographical location, movement also occurs between social classes and contexts. In “Hello and Goodbye” Kunstlabor from Graz, Austria and Teatri ODA from Prishtina, Kosovo document individual stories of arrival and departure on their journey across Europe – the trip started in March 2013 – and they penetrate through to the roots of the migration phenomenon, examining the change that is taking place in a geographical and social context in the many different regions of Europe.

Inside "Aeropolis" (created by Marco Canevvacci from Plastique Fantastique, Berlin, Germany) we invite the audience moving inside the bubble to experience  artistically these stories by also adding their own experience.

Kunstlabor: Julia Laggner, Edith Draxl, Wolfgang Rappel, Andrea Fischer
Teatri ODA: Florent Mehmeti
Albanian translation: Vilson Marku

Tuesday, 8th September from 16:00h - 20:00h
Wednesday, 9th September from 10:00h - 13:00h and from 18:00 - 21:00h
Thursday, 10th September from 10:00h - 13:00h
Square at Prishtina Townhall, Përmendorja

http://www.kunstlabor.net/
http://www.uni-t.org/
www.teatrioda.com

HELLO AND GOODBYE has received a Residence Aid by the IN SITU network in the frame of the META project.  This project has been funded with support from the European Commission (DGEAC – Culture programme).
 

Sound installation. The Speakers is both a process of engagement and a physical installation.
It inhabits a public space, and temporarily transform it into a kind of worm-hole between people and spaces, real & digital, past & live, local & global. Inspired by the role of Twitter in revolutionary movements, the piece focuses around the words of people defending their right to 'speak out' and explores the ‘choreography of assembly’ in the digital age.
 
“The Speakers” has brought to life a fascinating paradox consisting of intense emotions or complex thoughts condensed into 140 characters and the continuous sharing of the crudest realities via the most “unreal” means. It all takes place in a smoky venue where the performance simmers like tea on a stove, surrounded by speakers that broadcast these intriguing sentences taken from the internet and spoken in a local vernacular. In this scenario these disembodied texts become human voices, that transpose our world with another’s, momentarily breaking down the barrier between the digital world and the reality of human life."  

The installation presents a flock of voices, each floating beneath an umbrella, speaking a stream of short fragments of text, realised both in sound & light. Gathered around ‘real’ wood burners - heating pots of fresh mint tea - they occupy a public space and give voice to the unspoken. Each node offers a different thread within which we are invited to wonder. Walking amongst them - whilst a theme emerges - each of our own pathways between them, and their context, patch together new personal threads of meta-narrative.

‘The Speakers’ offers a mechanism for people to explore the intangible public realm offered by social media in a real tangible and local context. The content is gathered both from the ‘macro’ perspective offered by the web and social movements, and the ‘micro’ perspective of the very personal and local.
Drawing on an ever evolving archive of material gathered for each rendition and site, in Pristina the work will gather material related to people defending freedom of expression and the freedom of movement.

Artist Thor McIntyre and Aswarm aim to create tools for people to re-evaluate the potential of public space, and explore the relationship between sound and site.

"The speakers" in HAPU Festival in Prishtina is brought to you in association with British Council.  [logo]
 
Lead Artist: Thor McIntyre-Burnie (Aswarm)
CoArtist: Toby Jarvis (Aswarm)
 
Thursday, 10th September from 11:00h - 14:00h and from 17:00h - 21:00h
Friday, 11th September from 10:00h - 13:00h and from 17:00h - 21:00h
Saturday, 12th September from 10:00h - 13:00h and from 17:00h - 21:00h
Mother Theresa Boulevard - behind Skenderbeg Statue
 


http://www.aswarm.com/

 

Thursday, 10th September at 14:00h - Teatri ODA

Artistic creation in public space. The role of the cities and cultural authorities. Their responsibility to provide a cultural life in the public space of its citizens. Curatorial aspects of planning, creating and programming art work in public space. The debate will also challenge the matter of the quality of the initiatives for art works in public spaces, is the artist aware for a specific public space where he/she wants to present the art work, how to create and take decisions for permanent work in public space, how to use temporary interventions, what is their relationship with the cultural offer of cities, villages or other locations? Is the public space a good substitute of missing buildings for art work presentation?  These questions should provide a list of recommendations for policy makers to have in consideration while planning the life of the citizens in public spaces, proposing models of structuring and developing the cultural sector in Kosovo to have lasting effects for the benefit of citizens and the quality of their social life.

We invite you to contribute in this debate discussing these and other matters that deal with artistic creation in public space.

This activity is supported financially by Olof Palme International Centre
 

Sound installation. The Speakers is both a process of engagement and a physical installation.
It inhabits a public space, and temporarily transform it into a kind of worm-hole between people and spaces, real & digital, past & live, local & global. Inspired by the role of Twitter in revolutionary movements, the piece focuses around the words of people defending their right to 'speak out' and explores the ‘choreography of assembly’ in the digital age.
 
“The Speakers” has brought to life a fascinating paradox consisting of intense emotions or complex thoughts condensed into 140 characters and the continuous sharing of the crudest realities via the most “unreal” means. It all takes place in a smoky venue where the performance simmers like tea on a stove, surrounded by speakers that broadcast these intriguing sentences taken from the internet and spoken in a local vernacular. In this scenario these disembodied texts become human voices, that transpose our world with another’s, momentarily breaking down the barrier between the digital world and the reality of human life."  

The installation presents a flock of voices, each floating beneath an umbrella, speaking a stream of short fragments of text, realised both in sound & light. Gathered around ‘real’ wood burners - heating pots of fresh mint tea - they occupy a public space and give voice to the unspoken. Each node offers a different thread within which we are invited to wonder. Walking amongst them - whilst a theme emerges - each of our own pathways between them, and their context, patch together new personal threads of meta-narrative.

‘The Speakers’ offers a mechanism for people to explore the intangible public realm offered by social media in a real tangible and local context. The content is gathered both from the ‘macro’ perspective offered by the web and social movements, and the ‘micro’ perspective of the very personal and local.
Drawing on an ever evolving archive of material gathered for each rendition and site, in Pristina the work will gather material related to people defending freedom of expression and the freedom of movement.

Artist Thor McIntyre and Aswarm aim to create tools for people to re-evaluate the potential of public space, and explore the relationship between sound and site.

"The speakers" in HAPU Festival in Prishtina is brought to you in association with British Council.  [logo]
 
Lead Artist: Thor McIntyre-Burnie (Aswarm)
CoArtist: Toby Jarvis (Aswarm)
 
Thursday, 10th September from 11:00h - 14:00h and from 17:00h - 21:00h
Friday, 11th September from 10:00h - 13:00h and from 17:00h - 21:00h
Saturday, 12th September from 10:00h - 13:00h and from 17:00h - 21:00h
Mother Theresa Boulevard - behind Skenderbeg Statue
 


http://www.aswarm.com/

 

A Dance performance by wellknown Albanian choreographer Gjergj Prevazi an Albanian Dancetheater Company happens inside and around Aeropolis (created by Marco Canevaccit from Plastique Fantastique, Berlin, Germany). Eight dancers explore the possibilities of combination in three in a certain space. The touch, physical power, balance, sensitivity and emotion are present throughout the show in a form of the dance that does not narrate a story but rather transmits emotions and sensations of the eight bodies different in energy, sensitivity and form. This artistic search reaches for harmonic fluidity, passing energy and support to each other, strating from images of the personal experiences of dancers themselves in an spatial, vital and imaginative exploration.

Choreographert: Gjergj Prevazi
Dancers: Akreoma Saliu, Rosella Pellicciotti, Robert Nuha, Alba Hoxha, Fjorald Doci, Evisa Lazri, Lirjana Alhasa, Sandiola Dizdari

Thursday, 10th September at 21:00h - Ibrahim Rugova square

http://www.dancealbfest.com/
 

Installation. The architecture of the 100 sqm single-layer pneumatic structure AEROPOLIS has been designed to allow maximal mobility and flexibility during its stops in 3 different locations in Prishtina. Furthermore the installation always changes its shape into endless constellations by squeezing through the existing urban or natural environment – thus enhancing the perception of those peculiar public spaces by focusing them. AEROPOLIS offers a communication platform to experience a sequence of numerous activities with changing visuals and content, curated together with HAPU Festival: dance and installations inside and outside; performances, video projections, talks, presentations and workshops. The AEROPOLIS community centre breathes new life into the city and makes the invisible visible. AEROPOLIS is a Plastique Fantastique project brought in HAPU Festival Prishtina in cooperation with Republic of Germany Embassy in Prishtina   [logo]


Concept: Marco Canevacci
Design: Yena Young
Sound design: Marco Barotti
Video projections: Simone Serlenga

VIDEO PROJECTIONS:
Thursday, 10th September at 22:00h - Ibrahim Rugova square
Saturday, 12th September at 21:00h - Ulpiana (Fontana)


PLASTIQUE FANTASTIQUE
Platform for temporary architecture

http://www.plastique-fantastique.de/
 

Sound installation. The Speakers is both a process of engagement and a physical installation.
It inhabits a public space, and temporarily transform it into a kind of worm-hole between people and spaces, real & digital, past & live, local & global. Inspired by the role of Twitter in revolutionary movements, the piece focuses around the words of people defending their right to 'speak out' and explores the ‘choreography of assembly’ in the digital age.
 
“The Speakers” has brought to life a fascinating paradox consisting of intense emotions or complex thoughts condensed into 140 characters and the continuous sharing of the crudest realities via the most “unreal” means. It all takes place in a smoky venue where the performance simmers like tea on a stove, surrounded by speakers that broadcast these intriguing sentences taken from the internet and spoken in a local vernacular. In this scenario these disembodied texts become human voices, that transpose our world with another’s, momentarily breaking down the barrier between the digital world and the reality of human life."  

The installation presents a flock of voices, each floating beneath an umbrella, speaking a stream of short fragments of text, realised both in sound & light. Gathered around ‘real’ wood burners - heating pots of fresh mint tea - they occupy a public space and give voice to the unspoken. Each node offers a different thread within which we are invited to wonder. Walking amongst them - whilst a theme emerges - each of our own pathways between them, and their context, patch together new personal threads of meta-narrative.

‘The Speakers’ offers a mechanism for people to explore the intangible public realm offered by social media in a real tangible and local context. The content is gathered both from the ‘macro’ perspective offered by the web and social movements, and the ‘micro’ perspective of the very personal and local.
Drawing on an ever evolving archive of material gathered for each rendition and site, in Pristina the work will gather material related to people defending freedom of expression and the freedom of movement.

Artist Thor McIntyre and Aswarm aim to create tools for people to re-evaluate the potential of public space, and explore the relationship between sound and site.

"The speakers" in HAPU Festival in Prishtina is brought to you in association with British Council.  [logo]
 
Lead Artist: Thor McIntyre-Burnie (Aswarm)
CoArtist: Toby Jarvis (Aswarm)
 
Thursday, 10th September from 11:00h - 14:00h and from 17:00h - 21:00h
Friday, 11th September from 10:00h - 13:00h and from 17:00h - 21:00h
Saturday, 12th September from 10:00h - 13:00h and from 17:00h - 21:00h
Mother Theresa Boulevard - behind Skenderbeg Statue
 


http://www.aswarm.com/

 

OPEN TALK is part of the program, where you can hear more from artists themselves and talk with them for art in public space, their approach, what we miss and what bothers us, presentations and workshops. 

Sound installation. The Speakers is both a process of engagement and a physical installation.
It inhabits a public space, and temporarily transform it into a kind of worm-hole between people and spaces, real & digital, past & live, local & global. Inspired by the role of Twitter in revolutionary movements, the piece focuses around the words of people defending their right to 'speak out' and explores the ‘choreography of assembly’ in the digital age.
 
“The Speakers” has brought to life a fascinating paradox consisting of intense emotions or complex thoughts condensed into 140 characters and the continuous sharing of the crudest realities via the most “unreal” means. It all takes place in a smoky venue where the performance simmers like tea on a stove, surrounded by speakers that broadcast these intriguing sentences taken from the internet and spoken in a local vernacular. In this scenario these disembodied texts become human voices, that transpose our world with another’s, momentarily breaking down the barrier between the digital world and the reality of human life."  

The installation presents a flock of voices, each floating beneath an umbrella, speaking a stream of short fragments of text, realised both in sound & light. Gathered around ‘real’ wood burners - heating pots of fresh mint tea - they occupy a public space and give voice to the unspoken. Each node offers a different thread within which we are invited to wonder. Walking amongst them - whilst a theme emerges - each of our own pathways between them, and their context, patch together new personal threads of meta-narrative.

‘The Speakers’ offers a mechanism for people to explore the intangible public realm offered by social media in a real tangible and local context. The content is gathered both from the ‘macro’ perspective offered by the web and social movements, and the ‘micro’ perspective of the very personal and local.
Drawing on an ever evolving archive of material gathered for each rendition and site, in Pristina the work will gather material related to people defending freedom of expression and the freedom of movement.

Artist Thor McIntyre and Aswarm aim to create tools for people to re-evaluate the potential of public space, and explore the relationship between sound and site.

"The speakers" in HAPU Festival in Prishtina is brought to you in association with British Council.  [logo]
 
Lead Artist: Thor McIntyre-Burnie (Aswarm)
CoArtist: Toby Jarvis (Aswarm)
 
Thursday, 10th September from 11:00h - 14:00h and from 17:00h - 21:00h
Friday, 11th September from 10:00h - 13:00h and from 17:00h - 21:00h
Saturday, 12th September from 10:00h - 13:00h and from 17:00h - 21:00h
Mother Theresa Boulevard - behind Skenderbeg Statue
 


http://www.aswarm.com/

 

Performance by Haveit conceived to be performed in different public spaces. Questioning  what is private and what is public, Haveit invites you to have an experience, a personal service  with personal and intimate stories and experiences. Discover an almost vanished service in public areas.  But, did the suppression and violence vanished too? 

Come and find out yourself, bring your friend, your boyfriend, your husband or your father on:

Tuesday, 8th September from 19:00h - the Plateau of PTK building in Dardania.
Wednesday, 9th September from 18:00h - Zahir Pajaziti square, or
Friday, 11th September from 17:00h - Ibrahim Rugova square


HAVEIT (Alketa Sylaj, Hana Qena, Vesa Qena, Arbërore Sylaj) is a group of four women that tend to go beyond everyday pleasure, moralistic rules and refuse to agree with the matters that are being served.
They won't do anything except tell their and your story! The group was established in 2011, Prishtina, Kosovo.


https://www.facebook.com/haveit
 

Dance Documentary. Crossing the reality of the industrial world, a symphony of machine body / human is written through a standalone platform crane and rigging, a forest of steel joists, two dancers, a Machine operator and two live witnesses to the steel industrial real. Invitation to a return of the stories of gestures and materials from this world to work steel, with the dedication to Kosovo's hard working people for their heroism in history and in the present times.! A sensitive search of dance in the heart of the real and the humanity in motion and at work!

"... We are directly touched by this brotherly gesture of the artists towards the workers. "A big Hats off" for this ballet of the hard work. "
Cathrin Elss-Seringhaus - Pfaelzischer-Merkur in 02/06/2014

"... In the end, dancers and steel makers introduce an unpublished trade guilds which, of the distant time of cathedrals in the recent extinction of blast furnaces, immortalizes the same desire of one in common enthusiast and activist in the work and in the creation. "
Fabienne Arvers - The InRockuptibles n°924

Author/Concept: Ali SALMI
Dancers: Nathan FREYERMUTH, Ali SALMI / Driver Machine: Anne Claire JUDE / Witnesses Real Steel: Marcel RAMMLER, Jo CHOONMAN
Lighting Design : Jean MUCKENSTURM, Clément CHEVRIER
Sound design: Morgan Di BENEDETTO & GSH
Image Design: Blanco Lapino
Design / Choreography: Ali SALMI


Friday, 11th September at 21:00h - and
Saturday, 12th September at 21:00h -

Zahir Pajaziti Square


http://www.osmosiscie.com
http://www.corps-documentaire.com

Friday, 11th September at 22:00h sounds of Tech House music by Lekë and then Techno with Jehonë. 

OPEN NEST is called the evening program in ODA theatre that is the night meeting point of the public and the artists.

Sound installation. The Speakers is both a process of engagement and a physical installation.
It inhabits a public space, and temporarily transform it into a kind of worm-hole between people and spaces, real & digital, past & live, local & global. Inspired by the role of Twitter in revolutionary movements, the piece focuses around the words of people defending their right to 'speak out' and explores the ‘choreography of assembly’ in the digital age.
 
“The Speakers” has brought to life a fascinating paradox consisting of intense emotions or complex thoughts condensed into 140 characters and the continuous sharing of the crudest realities via the most “unreal” means. It all takes place in a smoky venue where the performance simmers like tea on a stove, surrounded by speakers that broadcast these intriguing sentences taken from the internet and spoken in a local vernacular. In this scenario these disembodied texts become human voices, that transpose our world with another’s, momentarily breaking down the barrier between the digital world and the reality of human life."  

The installation presents a flock of voices, each floating beneath an umbrella, speaking a stream of short fragments of text, realised both in sound & light. Gathered around ‘real’ wood burners - heating pots of fresh mint tea - they occupy a public space and give voice to the unspoken. Each node offers a different thread within which we are invited to wonder. Walking amongst them - whilst a theme emerges - each of our own pathways between them, and their context, patch together new personal threads of meta-narrative.

‘The Speakers’ offers a mechanism for people to explore the intangible public realm offered by social media in a real tangible and local context. The content is gathered both from the ‘macro’ perspective offered by the web and social movements, and the ‘micro’ perspective of the very personal and local.
Drawing on an ever evolving archive of material gathered for each rendition and site, in Pristina the work will gather material related to people defending freedom of expression and the freedom of movement.

Artist Thor McIntyre and Aswarm aim to create tools for people to re-evaluate the potential of public space, and explore the relationship between sound and site.

"The speakers" in HAPU Festival in Prishtina is brought to you in association with British Council.  [logo]
 
Lead Artist: Thor McIntyre-Burnie (Aswarm)
CoArtist: Toby Jarvis (Aswarm)
 
Thursday, 10th September from 11:00h - 14:00h and from 17:00h - 21:00h
Friday, 11th September from 10:00h - 13:00h and from 17:00h - 21:00h
Saturday, 12th September from 10:00h - 13:00h and from 17:00h - 21:00h
Mother Theresa Boulevard - behind Skenderbeg Statue
 


http://www.aswarm.com/

 

OPEN TALK is part of the program, where you can hear more from artists themselves and talk with them for art in public space, their approach, what we miss and what bothers us, presentations and workshops. 

While, on Saturday, 12th September at 14:00h in ODA Theatre we will be screening a short documentary for Trepça miners  called "Underground electrician" (profile Ajet Ferizi) by director Valmir Tertini to continue the talk together with choreographer, Ali Salmi from Franca and his "Steel Cathedrale" that treats the theme of steel industry workers.

Sound installation. The Speakers is both a process of engagement and a physical installation.
It inhabits a public space, and temporarily transform it into a kind of worm-hole between people and spaces, real & digital, past & live, local & global. Inspired by the role of Twitter in revolutionary movements, the piece focuses around the words of people defending their right to 'speak out' and explores the ‘choreography of assembly’ in the digital age.
 
“The Speakers” has brought to life a fascinating paradox consisting of intense emotions or complex thoughts condensed into 140 characters and the continuous sharing of the crudest realities via the most “unreal” means. It all takes place in a smoky venue where the performance simmers like tea on a stove, surrounded by speakers that broadcast these intriguing sentences taken from the internet and spoken in a local vernacular. In this scenario these disembodied texts become human voices, that transpose our world with another’s, momentarily breaking down the barrier between the digital world and the reality of human life."  

The installation presents a flock of voices, each floating beneath an umbrella, speaking a stream of short fragments of text, realised both in sound & light. Gathered around ‘real’ wood burners - heating pots of fresh mint tea - they occupy a public space and give voice to the unspoken. Each node offers a different thread within which we are invited to wonder. Walking amongst them - whilst a theme emerges - each of our own pathways between them, and their context, patch together new personal threads of meta-narrative.

‘The Speakers’ offers a mechanism for people to explore the intangible public realm offered by social media in a real tangible and local context. The content is gathered both from the ‘macro’ perspective offered by the web and social movements, and the ‘micro’ perspective of the very personal and local.
Drawing on an ever evolving archive of material gathered for each rendition and site, in Pristina the work will gather material related to people defending freedom of expression and the freedom of movement.

Artist Thor McIntyre and Aswarm aim to create tools for people to re-evaluate the potential of public space, and explore the relationship between sound and site.

"The speakers" in HAPU Festival in Prishtina is brought to you in association with British Council.  [logo]
 
Lead Artist: Thor McIntyre-Burnie (Aswarm)
CoArtist: Toby Jarvis (Aswarm)
 
Thursday, 10th September from 11:00h - 14:00h and from 17:00h - 21:00h
Friday, 11th September from 10:00h - 13:00h and from 17:00h - 21:00h
Saturday, 12th September from 10:00h - 13:00h and from 17:00h - 21:00h
Mother Theresa Boulevard - behind Skenderbeg Statue
 


http://www.aswarm.com/

 

On Saturday, 12th September at 18:00h in Ulpiana, Fontana there will be workshops for 'Parkour' and 'free running' with Kosovo parkourists: Vigan Osmani, Ardit Hasangjekaj, Arbër Bajrami, Leonor Pacolli, Rrezart Sertolli. Those who are interested can learn more for these disciplines.

Installation. The architecture of the 100 sqm single-layer pneumatic structure AEROPOLIS has been designed to allow maximal mobility and flexibility during its stops in 3 different locations in Prishtina. Furthermore the installation always changes its shape into endless constellations by squeezing through the existing urban or natural environment – thus enhancing the perception of those peculiar public spaces by focusing them. AEROPOLIS offers a communication platform to experience a sequence of numerous activities with changing visuals and content, curated together with HAPU Festival: dance and installations inside and outside; performances, video projections, talks, presentations and workshops. The AEROPOLIS community centre breathes new life into the city and makes the invisible visible. AEROPOLIS is a Plastique Fantastique project brought in HAPU Festival Prishtina in cooperation with Republic of Germany Embassy in Prishtina   [logo]


Concept: Marco Canevacci
Design: Yena Young
Sound design: Marco Barotti
Video projections: Simone Serlenga

VIDEO PROJECTIONS:
Thursday, 10th September at 22:00h - Ibrahim Rugova square
Saturday, 12th September at 21:00h - Ulpiana (Fontana)


PLASTIQUE FANTASTIQUE
Platform for temporary architecture

http://www.plastique-fantastique.de/
 

Dance Documentary. Crossing the reality of the industrial world, a symphony of machine body / human is written through a standalone platform crane and rigging, a forest of steel joists, two dancers, a Machine operator and two live witnesses to the steel industrial real. Invitation to a return of the stories of gestures and materials from this world to work steel, with the dedication to Kosovo's hard working people for their heroism in history and in the present times.! A sensitive search of dance in the heart of the real and the humanity in motion and at work!

"... We are directly touched by this brotherly gesture of the artists towards the workers. "A big Hats off" for this ballet of the hard work. "
Cathrin Elss-Seringhaus - Pfaelzischer-Merkur in 02/06/2014

"... In the end, dancers and steel makers introduce an unpublished trade guilds which, of the distant time of cathedrals in the recent extinction of blast furnaces, immortalizes the same desire of one in common enthusiast and activist in the work and in the creation. "
Fabienne Arvers - The InRockuptibles n°924

Author/Concept: Ali SALMI
Dancers: Nathan FREYERMUTH, Ali SALMI / Driver Machine: Anne Claire JUDE / Witnesses Real Steel: Marcel RAMMLER, Jo CHOONMAN
Lighting Design : Jean MUCKENSTURM, Clément CHEVRIER
Sound design: Morgan Di BENEDETTO & GSH
Image Design: Blanco Lapino
Design / Choreography: Ali SALMI


Friday, 11th September at 21:00h - and
Saturday, 12th September at 21:00h -

Zahir Pajaziti Square


http://www.osmosiscie.com
http://www.corps-documentaire.com

On the last night, Saturday, 12th September  at 22:00h in ODA lands Zanzi Band, followed by Tech House by Leg Off and later Deep / Techno / Dub by Uran B. 

OPEN NEST is called the evening program in ODA theatre that is the night meeting point of the public and the artists.