Encounters on Borders: Festival of Community Art

The Festival focuses on temporal and spatial borders in general. Borders, which pass between historical-cultural heritage and present social-political context,between the city and the nature, geopolitical centers and peripheries, between public and private sectors, the arts and other fields of activities. These are neutral places which lie beyond the hegemony of any rule or regime; here the socio-political, urban, environmental, cultural, linguistic and other tensions are accumulated. These limits emerge on every moment and each step. Is it somehow possible to avoid such cases or incidents, to refrain from wars and destructions by turning the borders into  appointments of communication and benefit? Unlike the representational art producing “author” and “spectator”, Encounters on Borders festival is promoting a community art overcoming borders.