Today’s society, as an all-encompassing social system, is constituted with the distinction itself from the surrounding world to which concerns the system of consciousness. By restricting ourselves from the outer world, the society is able to operate with a closed manner by the reason that only a genuinely social operation acts is communication. In addition, the operational isolation is expressed in the fact that one communication is connected with another communication.

In this case, a potential medium of communication is in the form of artistic relationships within the framework of the project, between the city of Bergen, Norway, and Krasnodar, Russia.

By our actions, we as participants of the project, tried to establish not only the relationship and communication between different cultures and contexts, but also the most importantly within the claimed constructive discourse was implemented the exchange of information, it was implemented by means of the artistic communication and contributed of the understanding of the decelerated cultural – communicative impulse.

It should be noted that our main task was to form an artistic communication in the form of implementation an exhibition and workshop within the framework we discussed urgent issues. This allowed us to deconstruct and fill out the existing vacuum in the context of art which exists between our regions.

Thus, we were focused not only on the local artistic scene, but also we looked beyond the boundaries of our regions.

We believed that through this activity we tried to change the social climate within the cultural society in which we developed this cultural initiative.

This project was a cultural exchange between Russian and Norwegian artists.

The participants realized a group exhibition, round table and took part in an art residence near to the city of Krasnodar.

Within the round table was organized a discussion concerning the current situation on the topic of development of the artistic dialogue between Norway and Russia.

2013 “Born of emptiness”, Gallery “REDGIFT” at the Cultural Center “Typography” (Krasnodar, Russia)

Curator of the project:

Alexandru Raevschi

Coordinator of the project:

Stepan Subotin

Assistants of the project:

Tania Stadnichenko, Vasilii Subotin, Evgenyi Rimkevich and Alena Sofkina

Participants of the project:

Nishida Hidemi, Egil Paulsen, Alexandru Raevschi, Lasse Arikstad

With the financial support of:

Bergen Academy of Art and Design (Bergen, Norway)

Evgeniy Rudenko (Krasnodar, Russia)

Nikolay Moroz (Krasnodar, Russia).

With the information support of the:

Information portal of the South Russia “yuga.ru”