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The Reykjavík Grapevine
Issue 14 — 2011
Theatre And Performance | APPLY NOW!
‘Transeuropa’ is a young European
theatre and performance festival
in Hildesheim, Germany. For its
seventh edition, transeuropa made
Iceland one of its partner countries.
From May 12-19, 2012, the festival
will provide a platform for emerging
artists and initiate exchange among
the countries. Exploring and pro-
ducing new formats, ‘transeuropa’
encourages discussions about dif-
ferent aesthetics and artistic work
approaches. For this edition we are
looking for young theatre makers
searching for new ways to commu-
nicate with their audience and cre-
ate spaces for experience of new
and unique communities.
Inviting artists from Iceland, Lithuania,
Portugal and the German-speaking
performance scene, we create a net-
work for upcoming performers to pres-
ent and reflect their work and celebrate
their get-together.
Besides applying for a guest per-
formance, you have the opportunity to
work in one of our production formats
especially developed for the festival.
These residency programmes will be
realised in Hildesheim and will premiere
in the course of the festival. Through-
out the entire production period we will
place an office and a production assis-
tant at your disposal, as well as provide
accommodation and budget. Transeu-
ropa will cover all travel expenses.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS
For the production format ‘living room’
we are looking for young artists from
all artistic genres who would like to
be part of a European flat-sharing
community. Together with artists from
Portugal, Lithuania and the German
speaking countries Austria, Germany
or Switzerland, you form the flat-shar-
ing community yourselves. The team of
transeuropa2012 will choose the first
flat mate; this person will autonomously
decide which country the next flat-mate
will be from, look through the applica-
tions of that country, talk via Skype with
potential flat mates and finally choose
one. Subsequently the two flat mates
will jointly choose the third and fourth
member of the flat share. Four weeks
prior to the festival you move into an
empty apartment in Hildesheim, in
which you will live, work and perform.
How would you like to live and work
together? How can you free yourselves
from your conventional and familiar
ways of living? How do the objects from
the disbanded apartment influence
you? What material will you collect to
document your living together?
Apply with an English-speaking
video (max. four minutes), in which you
present yourself in your own flat. Up-
load it on a video sharing website and
send the link to info@transeuropa-fes-
tival.de by September 30.
‘Partner ship’ is a cooperation of
three young graduates of ‘Theory and
Practice’ from the Academy of Arts in
Reykjavík and three graduates of ‘Cul-
tural Science and Aesthetical Practice’
from the University of Hildesheim.
Together they will develop a piece re-
searching on the conflict and friction
within the fields of collective, scientific
and artistic practice.
Theatre needs the body, needs
the corpus. Theatre is a physical act
through and through. It is when the-
atre professionals develop an interest
in scientific questions that abstraction
meets activism. But where to begin?
Does theory come first or is it praxis
that delivers the material out of which
theory derives?
The first meeting of the group will
take place in Reykjavík early in 2012.
Rehearsals will start four weeks prior to
transeuropa2012 in Hildesheim.
GERMANY NEEDS YOU!
So apply for transeuropa2012 already!
HANNAH PFURTSCHELLER, PAMINA
DITTMANN, MARLEEN WOLTER
Apply to info@transeuropa-festival.de
www.transeuropa-festival.de
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Continued from page 10 Customs Is Cracking Down
IS THIS REALLY NECESSARY?
Many would naturally like the duties
lowered, believing that it is unneces-
sary to hassle people like this about the
purchase of personal items, but Hörður
points out that it would be unfair to the
stores in Iceland that are importing prod-
ucts from abroad, paying duties and
VAT to sell them here. “If there are huge
amounts being imported to Iceland every
week without paying tax, that’s making
things difficult for Icelandic stores,” he
says.
But as all items are taxed regardless
of whether or not they can be purchased
in Iceland (like kilts), the philosophical
underpinnings of the law are not about
protecting domestic businesses. What it
comes down to is simple. “The point of
the tax is not to protect the stores in Ice-
land,” Hörður says. “It’s just money to the
State. More than 30% of the State’s in-
come comes through Customs—tax, VAT
and fees.”
Will Customs relax? Probably not. So
perhaps it’s just time for a change of at-
titude. Instead of getting all worked up in
a fit of hate, you could take Virgile Collin-
Lange’s approach of embracing Customs
with love, which he extolled on our Face-
book: “[I] love to pay taxes on the Xmas
gifts I am receiving from abroad...Love
the way they open the gift for me.print a
price from amazon for me...Say good bye
to the surprise effect...But what I love the
most is to pay the chocolate tax.... Every
time my brother sends me chocolate
usually with other stuff..They disappear...
Strange.”
In case you’re curious about the choc-
olates, they told him that “they sometimes
get rid of suspicious food people send.” It
was Leonidas chocolate [YUM!] and Vir-
gile says it’s happened at least twice.