International festival of contemporary art The BODY NAVIGATION  

International festival of contemporary art “The Body Navigation” is a platform for artistic dialogue of European and Russian authors, working at the intersection of different kinds and genres of art: contemporary dance and performance, visual art, music and multimedia. Program of the festival includes projects and experimental works in the fields of media art, performance, electronic and ethnic music. The festival challenges artists and viewers to seek polemic dialogue with surrounding reality using human body and digital technologies as a medium. 

Distinctive features of the festival are OPENNESS, RELEVANCE and DEMOCRACY. 

Artistic project perceive a human being in relation to our surroundings and sweepingly developing new technologies. The projects refer to social, political and ecological problems, which directly affect Human Body (Body=Spirit=Mind). Thus, one of major festival topics is “Body is a medium of art”. 

The festival is designed not only for narrow range of specialists in the field of contemporary art, but to all people of St.-Petersburg.   

This is a liberal non-commercial art-action, in the framework of which exhibitions, concerts, performances, lectures and master-classes are presented.   

“The Body Navigation” festival has the reputation of an independent and actual European festival, presenting the works of both young and reputed authors in the field of contemporary art. The festival is among most interesting in its aspect of matching contemporary visual and multimedia types of art alongside with performing arts such as dance performance and audiovisual performance.   

 Previous festivals held in spaces of “Vodokanal”, Elagin Island, Dostoevsky memorial museum, Studio theater SpbGATI, Jakobson Academic Ballet Theater, art-residence of State Center of Contemporary Art Saint-Petersburg (NCCA), Kronstadt, Loft Project “ETAZHI”, have demonstrated relevance of chosen view upon problem of contemporary art development. More than 500 artists, performers, dancers and musicians from Europe, Northern and Baltic Countries, USA, New Zealand Japan and Russia participated in the festival.

 The organizers of the festival are independent curators, dancers, choreographers, artists and musicians of St.-Petersburg, who joined in 2005 into a Non-commercial partnership "ART NAVIGATION".   

This year's festival program includes projects in the fields of fine arts, photography, video art, performance, contemporary dance, electronic and ethnic music presented by authors from Russia, Germany, USA, Spain, Croatia, Serbia, Israel, Norway, Denmark, Czech Republic and Mexico