rhiz.eu
'RHIZ.EU' - THE STORY SO FAR
Rhiz.eu, our social networking site for all in arts and culture, has been joined by over 1000 users since it went live in July 2007. Other stats of interest? Around 350 organisations and 200 projects have been presented there so far, with close to 250 travel stories being shared and enjoyed on the site.
Not yet visited Rhiz.eu? Now is a good time to start, with our New Year's stories competition, revamped homepage, and new events calendar to help you keep track of what other Rhiz.eu users are up to.
Rhiz.eu is an initiative of the ECF. Rhiz.eu is a networking site for all those in arts and culture, across and beyond Europe. Artists, journalists, filmmakers, writers, photographers, funders, arts organisations and others join in, share, network etc. Quick and easy to navigate, Rhiz.eu is cultural diversity at work - creatively!
Taja Vovk from the ECF said:
The experience of diversity also disentangles certainties, forces us to learn new "languages", shakes our perceptions and projections, and can question our construction of identities.
HERE ARE SOME TASTERS...
Killing me softly, by Ruzudan Mirzikashvili
"Autumn yellowed the trees on Abakelia street. That was in 2002 when I first got the camera in my hands not for fun this but for something else that would later become a revelation to me...I was an outsider to Old Tbilisi until I looked at it through the lens of my camera..." More
Borders that are next door, by Isil Egrikavuk, Turkish performance artist
"Listening to people's stories was far better than the history books. For me it was a journey to my own history through the perspective of the other side. A side that has been so close yet existed as if it was a virtual reality, something that I could never enter completely..." More
Rebel Development crew breakin' thru borders, by Rebel Development dance crew
"Beautiful, daring, talented, electrifying, pure...They can spin on their heads, feet or hands... They can do just about anything. This is Rebel Development, a young electrifying multiethnic dance group consisting of enormously talented dancers from Serbia, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Kosovo..." More
Luigi Farrauto, 26 years old
Throughout his childhood Luigi had no sense of direction, getting lost even in supermarkets. His greatest passion was archeology, but after spending hours locating the exit in Pompei decided to devote his career to wayfinding. He carries on his battle against disorientation, but still gets lost in supermarkets..." Want to discover his project?
I Wish I Was An Arab/re-confirming the stereotype,
by Jan Ackenhausen, IWIWAA, Brussels
"I Wish I Was An Arab is a platform exploring all kinds of expression in a (sub)urban context, border(line) activity and other controversial spaces in the Middle East and beyond, bringing together ideas and little initiatives that provide an unconventional look into conventions and traditions, love and ideology, stereotypes and identity and personal experiences and questions about different cultural contexts." More
Rhiz.eu - The story so far