The team of Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt conducts a field research project in the polluted landscape of Görtschitztal, where soil and cattle fodder were contaminated by waste from local factories. One aim of the project is to retrieve images of Görtschitztal which go beyond that of the "poisoned valley", which dominate the media reports. At the moment we gather data relating to the inside- and outside-perceptions of the echoes of this "hidden landscape". Together with students of Klagenfurt University we made fieldtrips and interviewed inhabitants of Görtschitztal to learn more about their point of view. First results will be presented in our workshop in February 2017.

This autumn's Klangfest was held from 28 to 30 October and is dedicated to "The Sound of Europe". It is part of the project entitled "ECHOES FROM INVISIBLE LANDSCAPES“.
Enterprise Z's first contribution to this initiative is the project "The Sound of Europe" at Klanghaus Untergreith, where sounds, tones and noise were collected on a trip across Europe and compiled to form a sound map of the continent. These recordings made in cities including, among others, London, Amsterdam, Stockholm, Copenhagen, Berlin, Bucharest, Warsaw, St. Petersburg, Lisbon and Brussels reflect the cultural and social diversity of Europe. One central aim of this collection of sounds was to locate artistic and cultural activities that are largely undiscovered and thus "invisible".

"The Sound of Europe" is a sound installation that will be presented at the Sound Gallery of Klanghaus on the three festival days. Artists and creatives who entered into resonance on these trips will present their work. The Klanghaus lends itself as the resonating body that amplifies the echoes generated by the agents of cultural reflection and making them heard across geographic regional borders.

Echoes from invisible landscapes was presented at Sajeta Festival in Tolmin, Slovenia, in July 2016.

ONLINE LIVE-STREAMED AUDIO-VISUAL PERFORMANCE JAVORCA - RESURRECTION

When? July 17, 2016 at 21.00h

Via the Internet worldwide

Live Stream: www.javorca.com; Radio Agora (audio), Radio Študent (audio), KATV Tolmin

Javorca – Resurrection, the audio-visual performance by Bratko Bibič will happen in the memorial church of Holy Spirit in Javorca on Sunday, 17. July 2016 at 21:00. The event is part of the international project Echoes from Invisible Landscapes. The artwork will be broadcasted live on the website www.javorca.com, but you can also experience the event at one of the projection sites, where the performance will be screened on the big screen: Creative Camp Sajeta (Sotočje-Tolmin), Center of Urban Culture Kino Šiška (Ljubljana), Last Museum of Contemporary Art (Logje), Village center (Labor), Trg Zmage (Piazza Vittoria) /Corte Bombi (Gorizia), RAJ-Badgasse 7 - Celovec (Klagenfurt), Trg pr'Špini (Izola).

The artwork was done in cooperation with many musicians and visual artists from different parts of Europe: Austria, Portugal, Serbia and Slovenia. The event in Javorca will bring together artists from the wide spectrum of genres and with the background in traditional and experimental artistic methods. They will commemorate and rearticulate the theme of the First World War. They present it as the Great War, which ends all wars. At the same time, they use the motives of the Isonzo Front and its south-eastern part of the valley, the memorial church of the Holy Spirit and the canyon of the river Tolminka. Viewers will be encouraged to explore the issue of war in the modern era as "the height of civilization" and are invited to celebrate our wonderful Tolmin Valley.

The instrumental concert with vocal pieces, composed and performed by Paul Schubert, Samo Kutin, Jelena Popržan, Ana Kravanja, Vid Drašler and the local vocal group Javorca, will be performed and filmed in the church of Holy Spirit In Javorca (Polog-Tolmin), with previously recorded, compiled, designed and animated visuals created by Eduardo Raon, Miroslav Sretenović aka Izvanredni Bob and Mark A. Kovačič. The experience of audio-visual performance will only be possible via the internet.

Zahra Mani & Mia Zabelka presented Echoes from invisible landscapes live on Radio Pula with presenter Natasa Petric.

The two-hour programme combining live duo performances, interviews and project descriptions provided a multi-lingual (Croatian, English, Italian and German) opportunity to present Echoes as a new European network in the Alp Adriatic region, describing the collaboration between partners, the involvement of local, regional, national and border-crossing networks and the support of the European Union in an ongoing process of shaping and developing the concept and realisation of European cultural initiatives.

Klangfest Kruzni Tok was a collaboration between Enterprise Z and Mani d.o.o. and the first public presentation of the Echoes collective.

Local and international musicians, performers and poets were invited to come together in the rural ambience of Hrelji 45 and develop and present their work, engaging with various layers of landscape, metaphor and interpretation.

With Phill Niblock & Katherine Liberovskaya, Sofia Härdig, Mia Zabelka, Saffronkeira, Dragic Rajcic, Zahra Mani, Thomas Köner, Ido Bukelmann and Livio Morosin.

Mani d.o.o. has taken on the task of bringing the Echo Collective together in a series of creative, curatorial, conceptual and organisational meetings at regular intervals throughout the project.

Echoes partners meet in a focussed yet relaxed atmosphere to meet as a team; to present work and ideas related to the project; to develop new levels of exchange within and beyond the Echoes network, exploiting one another's expertise and contacts; to collate documentation and artefacts pertaining to realised projects and activities; and to plan upcoming work with renewed, deepened reference to the original concept underlying the Echoes initiative, re-defining and clarifying the project in its organic growth over time.