EUROKON 2. SYMPOSIUM FOR INTERACTIVE RECYCLING
YEKATERKINBUR, RUSSIA / 1996
With the financial surplus from the festival in the Escher-Wyss-underpass we organized the second festival of interactive recycling in Yekaterinburg the following year. In the summer of 1996 we, together with a group of 24 artists from Germany, Great Britain, Denmark, Holland and Switzerland and 12 local Russian artists, filled refuse dumps of four partly disused factories with spectacular installations made of waste and scrap.
The residents of Yekaterinburg thought we were off our heads, but our action instigated the discussion about the catastrophic environmental conditions in the region. During the festival a documentary film by Alexander Golizdrin was shot that was subsequently aired on the Russian private TV channel NTV. Following the festival we put together an exhibition in the National Museum of Contemporary Art in Novosibirsk.
ARTISTS: Anne Bennike / Alexander Glistrin / Anja Kleidt / Dimitry Bulnygin
Dominik Suter / Guido Vanderbildt / Gregor Portmann / Isabel Karpf
Lennie Lee / Linda Herzog / Luis Wäschle / Maja Thommen / Michael Hiltbrunner / Michael Tucker / Mirsen Merkelbach
Oleg Elovoi / Octavio Gozalbes / Patrick Blöchlinger / Fafa Fierz
Slava Mizin