Shadow Casters is a network of several custom made urban projects united by similar methods, principles and visions in a specific creative exploration of different cities of the world. Each city is a territory to be read and re-mapped (re-semantisized) by an international SC crew that joins professionals from various fields - from arts & architecture to music & science - and of different generations, in order to conceive an interactive multi-facetted and multi-centered performance voyage/research.

ABOUT THE PROJECT (2001-2006)



Conceived by: Boris Bakal (between 1998-2001)

Devised in Zagreb in July2001 by: Boris Bakal, Pina Siotto, Katarina Pejović, Cym in co-authorship with Bill Aitchinson, Angelo di Bello, Ana Hušman, Zhana Ivanova, Jasen Jakić, Irina Karakahejeva and Carla Esperanza Tomassini (with special appearance of Ranka Mesarić). 
Produced by: Orchestra Stolpnik and Urban Festival Zagreb

Devised in Bologna in December 2001 by: Boris Bakal, Pina Siotto, Katarina Pejović, Cym in co-authorship with Jelena Aranđelović, Brbora Bakalova, Dinko Božanić, Tomislav Brajnović, Francesca Divano, Dessilava Mincheva and Nataša Radović with special participation of Bill Aitchinson, Angelo di Bello, Zhana Ivanova, Jasen Jakić, Irina Karakahejeva, Irena Radmanović and Carla Esperanza Tomassini. 
Produced by: Orchestra Stolpnik 

Devised in Graz in March and April 2002 by: Katarina Pejovic (Boris Bakal) as presentation and video of the urban research for the possible Shadow Casters journey in Graz.
Produced by: Bacači Sjenki and Forum Stadtpark Graz

Devised in Belgrade in September and October 2002 by: Boris Bakal, Pina Siotto, Katarina Pejović and Vlada Zarić in co-authorship with Natalia Blanche, Maurizio Braucci, Aleksandra Erić, Emily Snowden Naka, Holger Steen, Mirjana Boba Stojadinović.
Produced by: Orchestra Stolpnik, Bacači Sjenki and REX Center/B 92 2002. 
Supported by: CENPI, Italian Cultural Center, Croatian Ministry for Culture, Ergonet

Devised in Ljubljana in May 2002 by: Boris Bakal, Monica Glan, Katarina Pejović and Pina Siotto in co-authorship with Pablo Asumpsao, Laura Kaluz, Tatiana Nedelkova, Vesna Perić, Janja Rakoš and Dragana Stevanović. 
Produced by: Orchestra Stolpnik and Exodos Festival 2002. 

Devised in Zagreb in June and July 2002 by: Boris Bakal, Pina Siotto and  Katarina Pejović in co-authorship with Bill Aitchinson, Ana Hušman, Zhana Ivanova, Irina Karakahejeva, Janja Rakoš and Carla Esperanza Tomassini with special participation of Stanko Juzbašić, Dalibor Barić, Katarina Bistrović Darvaš, Milan Žerjav, Ivana Muller, Višnja Rogošić, Andrej Filetin, and many others.
Produced by: Orchestra Stolpnik, Bacači Sjenki and Urban Festival Zagreb 2002.  

Devised in New York in June and July 2003 by: BorisBakal, Pina Siotto, Katarina Pejović, Morgan Schwartz and StankoJuzbašić in co-authorship with Graham Clayton-Chance, UK; Bertie Ferdman, Philippa Kaye, Judson Wright, USA; Jan Holtmann, Corinna Vosse, Germany; Daniel Izquierdo, Spain; Maria Stan, Romania. Special Guest: Chris Neville, USA and Lisa Charlotte Baudouin Lie, Norway.
Produced by: Bacači Sjenki, Orchestra Stolpnik, Dancing in the Streets in association with The Kitchen, with additional support provided by Columbia University Computer Music Center
Supported by: Trust for Mutual Understanding, Arts Link, Croatian Ministry for Culture, Arts Council of England and Berlin Senate - Dept. of Cultural Affairs

Devised in Pisa in May and June 2006 (under name Co-stellazione and within EU Sidereus Nuncius project) by: Boris Bakal in collaboration with Katarina Pejović, Alessandro Rossetto, Ennio Ruffolo, Barbara Valli and in co-authorship with Serena Bisol, Giulia Floris, Michele Fuchich, Renata Otfinowska, Sandro Perti and many others. 
Produced by: Bacači Sjenki, Orchestra Stolpnik, CinemaTeatro Lux, Teatro Verdi
Supported by: EU Cultural program Kaleidoscope, Italian Ministry for Culture, Regione Toscana, Art Council Pisa, Croatian Ministry for Culture and many others


Shadow Casters project introduction:

Shadow Casters is intricate and complex interdisciplinary and multimedia performance (research) which uses and read the city and many of his multilayered aspects as 3D hyper-textual matrix. 
In its creation rise from specific group dynamic work(shop) guided by members of core team (up to five people) and executed together with dozen of local and international artists, activists and professionals. 
The project will also involve large number of local citizens (professionals, students, workers, etc.) in direct creation and many of their fellow citizens as spectators. Its express particular philosophical (and political) view on today’s world as it guides audience through the city on choice and chance bases (each spectator must by herself/himself determine individual path consciously choosing between different options and by taking responsibility upon her/his decisions). 
And last but not least, the Shadow Casters event in this way becomes a new urban document in the city history evidencing (underlying, illuminating, zooming-up, etc.) his past stories and invoking his future (political and human) destiny.

Shadow casters project pragmatics
Shadow Casters is an artistic project that unites various media and a diversity of methods in a specific creative exploration of different cities of the world. Each city is a territory to be read and re-mapped (re-semantisized) by an international Shadow Casters crew that joins professionals from various fields - from arts and architecture to music and science - and of different generations, in order to conceive an interactive multi-facetted and multi-centered performance voyage. Thus each city is a Shadow Casters project for itself: a new ground to be explored by a new creative team. Shadow Casters is therefore a network of several projects that are united by similar methods, principles and visions.

The production of Shadow Casters in a single city is divided in two phases that take place within at least one-month distance.

With Shadow Casters, the artistic team creates a multimedia framework for audience members’ individual journeys of discovery, through which they are invited to follow the artists’ lead and create their own paths through the city, interweaving subjective experiences with the events planted by the work’s creators and the ever unfolding City that ultimately is the “lead player” of this work.

Shadow Casters could be seen as a treasure hunt/city voyage. Receiving information and clues one step at a time, audience members travel by foot, public transportation or the Web to unknown and familiar locations, public and private spaces, open air and indoor sites. Throughout the journey, they make myriad of choices: which of the many clues to follow, whether to participate in a variety of everyday and unusual human interactions, or simply to observe them, or for how long to travel.

Shadow Casters interlaces various media (Web, Digital Video and Audio, Urban Performing and Dance,...) and various methods in order to:
  • Discover new and unknown aspects of the city, its beauty and idiosyncrasies, its multi-layered and multicultural nature, its social, urbanistic and human specifics, arising from the past and embedding itself in the present
  • Explore identity problems, decision-making processes and links between society and responsibility, especially in the light of confronting different cultural backgrounds, experiences and habits of the project’s participants
  • Read the city as hyper-space in time-spatial, historical, political, social, game-like and metaphysical sense
  • Bring a large number of diversified audiences to art and performance work - surpass the limits of the usual “art crowd” and offer the event to citizens of Nairobi from all strata
  • Introduce new ways of storytelling and possible approaches to new media communication tools, such as narration in digital media and its possible use within the traditional performance frame

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