Satellietgroep goes to Sinopale

Now Wakes The Sea’  is an exchange project Black Sea/North Sea by Satellietgroep. It is an open invitation to develop new strategies by artists, filmmakers, urbanists and locals for public and social interventions, which could open up new vistas on the relationship of cities and residents of the Black Sea and North Sea coastline.

The project will involve research based air programs for artists/filmmakers in coastal transistion areas around the Black Sea to develop new works, select existing works and program a travelling filmfestival for screening on venues, both on the Black Sea as well as on The North Sea coast.

Satellietgroep develops an international cultural collaboration network to focus on the pressure on public coastal transition areas.
Starting 2009 Satellietgroep researched the exchange project 'Concerning the sea - Compare, Combine or Conflict?'. In the screening program CCC @ Istanbul 2010 Satellietgroep screened 14 videoworks - both conceptual and documentary - that reflect on the conceptual, social and urban impact of the sea and waterways in both Turkey and The Netherlands.  Artist Talks, lectures and a researchtrip along the coastline of the Bosporus and Golden Horn were part of the project. In exchange we screened a selection of the program - with contributions of both Dutch, Turkish artist/filmmakers and projects evolved from the artist in residence program at Badgast  - in the Cinema at Sea @ Badgast in the Netherlands in 2011. In 2011 we started building a network around the Black Sea and North Sea, and participated in Tandem Study Visits to Moldova and Ukraine, as well as a research trip to Romania. In 2012, next to the fieldtrip to Istanbul to prepare the NLTR400 program at Sinop and The Hague, we prepare visits to Russia, Georgia and Ukraine as well as Romania and Bulgaria.

With special thanks for contributions by: Imre Azem, Cevdet Erek, Sefer Memisoglu, Derya Demir, Teike Asselbergs, Simone Pekelsma, Orhan Esen, Bram Vermeulen, Manon Bovenkerk, Maurits van der Laar, Gaston ten Horn, Maarten de Kroon, and many more!

The development of the project is so far supported by: Tandem - European Cultural Foundation, MitOst e.V. (Berlin), Centre for Cultural Management (Lviv), Soros Foundation Moldova (Chisinau), Culture Action Europe (Brussels) and funded by the European Commisson (Culture) and Robert Bosch Stiftung - SICA, the municipality of The Hague, Haagse Brug, Stroom, the Dutch Embassy in Turkey, ECF and SfA. For more info click here.