Short History of Shadow Caster project
Conceived by Boris Bakal as urban hyper-textual treasure-hunt project already in 1998 for the New York (as Orchestra Stolpnik
production) and inspired by Paul Austers work, Shadow
Casters has been first launched in Zagreb,
Croatia,
with its first phase in July 2001, as part of International Urban Festival.
It was followed by the first phase in Bologna, Italy, in December
2001, within the International Festival of Urban Arts and New Media
Hunting Season, then in
Graz, Austria (Forum
Stadtpark
- preparations & video work - April 2002); Ljubljana, Slovenia
(Exodos
Festival, May 2002) and Belgrade, Serbia (REX-B92Cultural Center & CENPI, September 2002). Shadow
Casters Zagreb Phase II took
place again within the frame of Urban
Festival
in the summer of 2002 (June/July). In
July 2003, Shadow
Casters
was launched in New York, in co-production with Dancing
in the Streets
in association with The
Kitchen
and Columbia
University
and in May and June 2006 in Pisa
(Costellazione,
Ipse Dixit – Shadow Casters Pisa) was
devised and performed as a final even of the EU project dedicated to
Galileo Galillei – Sidereus Nuncius.
So
far, more then 50 artists and professionals from Argentina, Brazil,
Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Italy, Japan, The
Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Spain, UK and USA participated in the making
of Shadow
Casters.
