Festival 23 presents Artivism at Sea
Event description
In a live documentary performance combining video, music and story, Nova Ruth & Grey Filastine share the voyage of Arka Kinari. Subversive, immersive and partially submerged, Arka Kinari is a 70-ton sailing ship transformed into a cultural platform to sound the alarm for the climate crisis.
Find out what happens when a rogue’s gallery of activists, makers and artists ton a terrible idea for the best of reasons. Everything you imagined about the wildness of the sea will be confirmed... and then some. International borders will be proven fictions, until they suddenly become the hardest of facts when the pandemic traps Arka Kinari stateless at sea for months with a broken engine and shrinking supplies.
Along the way you’ll find out what happens behind the fences of seedy ports from Morocco to Mexico, be hosted by Venezuelan soldiers on a barren rock, perform for indigenous communities on Panama’s disappearing islands, witness the bizarre legacy of nuclear testing in the Pacific, negotiate provisioning with heads of state, meet the Micronesian navigators preserving their ancient craft, be bashed by storms, scavenge supplies from shipwrecks, and be saved by a passing supertanker. You’ll also hear the challenges of touring an arts production aboard a ship in the world’s least charted waters, as we voyage the Indonesian archipelago from mega-cities to stilt villages, to be welcome and hosted by government ministers, Islamic scholars, quarantine teams in haz-mat suits, and transgender shamans.