Медиацентр «Vыход»
Творческая площадка
Петрозаводск, Россия
Петрозаводск, Россия
Медиацентр VЫХОД
Медиацентр «Vыход» — это творческая площадка для проектов в сфере культуры и искусства, предусматривающих соединение различных жанров и направлений, сфер и видов творческой деятельности.
Мы поддерживаем новое, актуальное искусство Карелии – реальную современную культуру.
Мы – молодые художники, фотографы, дизайнеры, модельеры, актеры, литераторы, музыканты, композиторы, медиа-художники, танцоры, кинематографисты, перформанс-артисты, арт-кураторы и просто творящие и в чём-то необычные люди.
Мы проводим образовательные программы для молодых художников и участвуем в них, организуем и поддерживаем множество других поликультурных проектов.
Мы поддерживаем новое, актуальное искусство Карелии – реальную современную культуру.
Мы – молодые художники, фотографы, дизайнеры, модельеры, актеры, литераторы, музыканты, композиторы, медиа-художники, танцоры, кинематографисты, перформанс-артисты, арт-кураторы и просто творящие и в чём-то необычные люди.
Мы проводим образовательные программы для молодых художников и участвуем в них, организуем и поддерживаем множество других поликультурных проектов.
Hi, I'm Irina and I work here in the Petrozavodsk Media Centre "Way out".
Tell us about it, please.
Well, using the official language, the Media Centre is a structural department of an organization which is in the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Culture. The name of the organization is The Centre of Folklore and Cultural Initiatives of the Republic of Karelia. It's a state autonomous institution of the Republic of Karelia, and we're its structural unit and platform.
What do you do here?
It's an exhibition centre first of all, as well as a platform for other projects. We usually have about 10 to 12 visual arts shows a year, but we also work with other projects and other formats.
As far as I can see you have a lot of media here and you gladly support synthetic arts.
Oh yes, we do. We encourage the mixing of styles and genres, projects that combine theatre, music and visual arts.
How can an artist or a group of artists get to your platform?
It's very easy. Our exhibitions are free of charge for the artists, there are no fees or money
contributions. Around the middle of summer we have an open-call, we announce that we are ready to receive applications for next year's schedule. We post it on Facebook and VK, the application form is very simple, you can send it to us via email or bring it to the centre yourself, and the registration goes on until the end of October. Then we make an exhibition schedule based on these applications, for example we have already formed one for 2021
What kind of applications do you support?
They must be interesting and have a concept. For example, suppose there's someone who does watercolours, paints from nature and then wants to exhibit the works. I don't promise such an application would pass.
Do you think your centre is about contemporary art?
Between 2006 and 2011 Petrozavodsk became known as a city of contemporary art thanks to the "Way Out" Media Centre. We used to cooperate with grant-providing organizations a lot, we had some financial means and held several contemporary art festivals, we made free educational programmes for creative young people. Very famous artists used to come to the city, world-famous ones, they gave lectures, supervised educational programmes, gave classes to young people and anyone who was willing to participate. This hall couldn't accommodate all the visitors. Students came too, there is an art and graphics department in the local teacher training college. There used to be the International Slavic Institute with a design department, and an art and design department at the university, so people can get an artistic education here. Cameramen from Karelian TV came too, to take part in workshops and improve their skills learning from people who were the aces of the profession.
What about nowadays?
Well, now unfortunately we are no longer financed so well and we cannot afford such activities anymore. I can say that as a result of our activity quite a lot of creative people were brought up, but unfortunately nearly all of them left Petrozavodsk. And now all these people work in the cultural field in other cities and countries, and the centre played the role of a kind of human resources forge. On the one hand we're glad, but on the other it's sad and we'd like creative people to stay in Petrozavodsk and we want to create the necessary conditions for that, and we're doing our best.
Do you accept applications from foreign artists?
The geography of the latest project was very broad. Surprisingly we had a lot of people from Australia, from the Netherlands, from Finland of course, Norway, Sweden, France, several people from Canada, South Korea too. Our art residency received so many applications we could accept only about a fifth of them.
The Karelian art residency has grown, hasn't it?
Yes, it has, as a result of the cooperation project there appeared another place in Petrozavodsk, not just a room in a dormitory, but a small outbuilding in Kruglaya Square, in a historical area in the city centre. This house was built at the end of the 18th century and it's located right next to the Ministry of Culture, you can see the Lenin monument from the window. So apart from living quarters for artists there's also a workshop. This art residency is meant for the artists working with videos, photos, sound and media, there's the necessary equipment, a lab, a noise reduction room, so that a person can work and live there. Unfortunately the coronavirus story destroyed all our plans. We failed to hold all the planned events for the latest project, the residencies in Petrozavodsk and Sortavala were ready to receive the artists, also the one in Kostomuksha, in the woods. Then we had been planning to exhibit the most interesting projects, but we failed to do it, some events took place online, others didn't take place at all. And now we've announced an additional open-call to invite Russian artists to the art residencies because the foreign ones couldn't come. Unfortunately this open-call is suspended too. But we hope that
one day the pandemic will be over and we will be able to receive Russian artists, I mean artists in the broad sense of the word, from painters to creative projects monitors.
Tell us about it, please.
Well, using the official language, the Media Centre is a structural department of an organization which is in the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Culture. The name of the organization is The Centre of Folklore and Cultural Initiatives of the Republic of Karelia. It's a state autonomous institution of the Republic of Karelia, and we're its structural unit and platform.
What do you do here?
It's an exhibition centre first of all, as well as a platform for other projects. We usually have about 10 to 12 visual arts shows a year, but we also work with other projects and other formats.
As far as I can see you have a lot of media here and you gladly support synthetic arts.
Oh yes, we do. We encourage the mixing of styles and genres, projects that combine theatre, music and visual arts.
How can an artist or a group of artists get to your platform?
It's very easy. Our exhibitions are free of charge for the artists, there are no fees or money
contributions. Around the middle of summer we have an open-call, we announce that we are ready to receive applications for next year's schedule. We post it on Facebook and VK, the application form is very simple, you can send it to us via email or bring it to the centre yourself, and the registration goes on until the end of October. Then we make an exhibition schedule based on these applications, for example we have already formed one for 2021
What kind of applications do you support?
They must be interesting and have a concept. For example, suppose there's someone who does watercolours, paints from nature and then wants to exhibit the works. I don't promise such an application would pass.
Do you think your centre is about contemporary art?
Between 2006 and 2011 Petrozavodsk became known as a city of contemporary art thanks to the "Way Out" Media Centre. We used to cooperate with grant-providing organizations a lot, we had some financial means and held several contemporary art festivals, we made free educational programmes for creative young people. Very famous artists used to come to the city, world-famous ones, they gave lectures, supervised educational programmes, gave classes to young people and anyone who was willing to participate. This hall couldn't accommodate all the visitors. Students came too, there is an art and graphics department in the local teacher training college. There used to be the International Slavic Institute with a design department, and an art and design department at the university, so people can get an artistic education here. Cameramen from Karelian TV came too, to take part in workshops and improve their skills learning from people who were the aces of the profession.
What about nowadays?
Well, now unfortunately we are no longer financed so well and we cannot afford such activities anymore. I can say that as a result of our activity quite a lot of creative people were brought up, but unfortunately nearly all of them left Petrozavodsk. And now all these people work in the cultural field in other cities and countries, and the centre played the role of a kind of human resources forge. On the one hand we're glad, but on the other it's sad and we'd like creative people to stay in Petrozavodsk and we want to create the necessary conditions for that, and we're doing our best.
Do you accept applications from foreign artists?
The geography of the latest project was very broad. Surprisingly we had a lot of people from Australia, from the Netherlands, from Finland of course, Norway, Sweden, France, several people from Canada, South Korea too. Our art residency received so many applications we could accept only about a fifth of them.
The Karelian art residency has grown, hasn't it?
Yes, it has, as a result of the cooperation project there appeared another place in Petrozavodsk, not just a room in a dormitory, but a small outbuilding in Kruglaya Square, in a historical area in the city centre. This house was built at the end of the 18th century and it's located right next to the Ministry of Culture, you can see the Lenin monument from the window. So apart from living quarters for artists there's also a workshop. This art residency is meant for the artists working with videos, photos, sound and media, there's the necessary equipment, a lab, a noise reduction room, so that a person can work and live there. Unfortunately the coronavirus story destroyed all our plans. We failed to hold all the planned events for the latest project, the residencies in Petrozavodsk and Sortavala were ready to receive the artists, also the one in Kostomuksha, in the woods. Then we had been planning to exhibit the most interesting projects, but we failed to do it, some events took place online, others didn't take place at all. And now we've announced an additional open-call to invite Russian artists to the art residencies because the foreign ones couldn't come. Unfortunately this open-call is suspended too. But we hope that
one day the pandemic will be over and we will be able to receive Russian artists, I mean artists in the broad sense of the word, from painters to creative projects monitors.
Арт-площадка
Место для творческих людей
Интересное место
Выставки и мастер-классы
Поддержка
Возможность реализации проектов
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