Balaklava Underwater Concert
Underwater concert. Balaklava Odyssey Festival, Crimea, 2010.
Syd Rey & Fabien Cesari
Part of artistic project META-ZONE curated by Olga Kisseleva.
Production: ETIS research department, CNRS.
Partners:
Pinshuk Art Center Kiev (Ukraine)
Federal Center for Contemporary Art (NCCA) Moscow (Russia)
Cultural Communication Center Kalpeda (Lithunia)
Transmedia Akademie Hellerau (Germany)
Wro Center for Media Art (Poland)
Preliminary study of the natural and historical realities of Balaclava (Crimea) allowed to determine the main directions of experiments: creation of map of metamorphosis of the natural environment, work on spatial equations of metamorphosis of the social consciousness, and the study of features of a new species of mammals, observed in recent months in the vicinity of Balaklava and named «balyklovek».
Specialists-linguists (a group led by Professor IA Karimov, head of the department Crimean Tatar Philology Kipou / industrial Crimean Pedagogical University) established and the content of texts. In fact, they were transcripts of the meetings of a
"Underwater Majlis". According to the fragmentary portions of those transcripts, subjects voting is an individual with some rudiments of obeego sex identity - "BALYKLOVEK" (Possibly from contaminated Balik / fish / and the prince was / retention of "man", at least, so it seemed to the Russian-speaking residents of Mishor /). Out of the same fragments of clear and unique relationship with many of the above-mentioned dialects languages, long experience of processing sea of terminology (for example, when adapting zvukoslov there way from the ancient legends to modern fiction Ichthyander (known as
Amphibian Man, comes from the Greek IHTIOS / fish / Anthropos / man /) in the norms of English language, self-tapped as BALYKLAWMEN there is to Turkic "sturgeon" added old English LAW MEN, t.e.chelovek law, lawyer, or a person who is always right.
A detailed study of remnants of the presence of creatures at the monument Arzy-Kyz / slimy fragments of plates, like seaweed, but the rigidity close to the cornea of fish Scale / revealed that the remnants of the ballot papers used and mandates delegates, which, after drying, water marks eclipsed tamgas-pektogrammy shed light on the origin of the delegates. These tamgas indicated they belong to the owners to ancient and Nogai Tatar steppe genera (photocopies were sent to a renowned
ethnogenesis Nogai people R. Kereitovu in Cherkessk RF). According to the doctor answered Kereitova native characters are representatives of the genera Mango, Najman, Kyjat, KENEGEZ. With further comparing these data with the materials on ethnic toponymy Crimea / relevant consultations were held with AG Shevchuk - Director of the Crimean branch of the Institute of Strategic Research under the President of Ukraine (after the queries branch was hastily and without explanation closed head office in Kiev) / defined and their range of settlement, namely - the Crimean Azov Sea coast.
If the data about the existence of the underwater community to reaffirm the need arises to convene a international scientific conference under the auspices of intergovernmental organizations, involving professionals to attempt to install a direct contact with BALYKLOVECHESTVOM.