The MS DOCKVILLE for art and music is a category mistake; it is categorically perplexed, has vexed categories and leads astray due to its flexed categories. Perplexed? In that case, let’s go hunt for that pigeonhole where women are top dogs at construction sites, where fine arts are being celebrated at a rock festival, where the individual is what counts most in the community, and where young and old gather on fallow land along the River Elbe just to be gathered. Let’s celebrate at the end of the day without ever calling it a day and let’s laugh about how sad it is that all of this is all over the place.
The MS DOCKVILLE Summer for Music & Arts, which will take place for the 6th time in 2012, creates categories just within its title, whilst concurrently ripping them down again. Its two main components, namely the MS DOCKVILLE Art Camp and the MS DOCKVILLE Festival, unite music and art in different ways. The Art Camp has taken hold as a place where artists from all over the world live and work together and then open up this process in both different affair and conveyance formats to the audience in an open air exhibition. Besides, the kids’ retreat LÜTTVILLE and the prevocational youth project TEENVILLE have established here, too. Summer lives off its various elements and so creates formats that can hardly be categorized as either craft or art, as either noise or music, either party or performance. And what is that supposed to mean anyways – this Either/Or?
THE CALL FOR ENTRIES IS CLOSED, ALL APPLICATIONS ARRIVING PRIOR TO THE DUE DATE WILL BE TAKEN INTO CONSIDERATION, ASSESSED, AND A SELECTION OF PARTICIPANTS CHOSEN. THE RESULT OF THE SELECTION WILL MOST PROBABLY BE ANNOUNCED BY THE END OF MARCH 2012. ALL APPLICANTS WILL BE INFORMED OF THEIR APPROVAL OR DECLINE IN WRITTEN FORM.
THE TEAM OF MS DOCKVILLE IS COMPOSED OF DOROTHEE HALBROCK, LAURA RABER, AND SUSANNE SCHICK AND IS BEING SUPPORTED BY AN ADVISORY BOARD CONSISTING OF ANNE KERSTING (DRAMATIC ADVISOR / FORMERLY DANCE PROGRAM & LIVE ART FESTIVAL KAMPNAGEL, HAMBURG), HEIKE LÜKEN (QUALIFIED CULTURAL SCIENTIST / UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG, HAMBURG), AND STEPHAN KÖHLER (TRUSTEE / FORMERLY ARTITUDE, NOW FRONTVIEWS, BERLIN).
