Art association NURT is an independent, non-profit NGO created by Ukrainian artists in 2011.

Since 2011 Art Association NURT organized more than thirty events including festivals, exhibitions, lectures, concerts, workshops, performances, and creative meetings with acclaimed European artists. Since 2012 we regularly organized events in the field of experimental electroacoustic music and sound art. Among them, the international festival of audiovisual art TETRAMATYKA (2013, 2015, 2017, 2019, 2021), the festival of electroacoustic music VOX ELECTRONICA (2012–2020), and the ensemble of contemporary music ConstantY (2011–2015).

Since February 21, 2022, Art Association NURT also started various volunteer initiatives with the main goal to help Ukrainian artists who joined Ukrainian Army. In July–October 2022 we realized the “Reactivation” project focused on creating possibilities for the artistic and educational development of displaced students of art institutions and young artists.

VOX ELECTRONICA 2020

2020, Lviv

Partners: EESEM Studio of Lviv Music Academy, Department of current artistic practices of Lviv National Academy of Arts, University of Lower Silesia, Studio for Electroacoustic Music of Kyiv Music Academy, Studio for Electroacoustic Music of Krakow Academy of Music, Ukrainian Association of Electroacoustic Music, digitIZMir Festival 

Festival of electroacoustic music VOX ELECTRONICA is an annual event that presents a cross-section of modern trends in electroacoustic music. The aim of the festival is to create a unique environment for the exchange of experience between Ukrainian and international composers, performers, and artists working in electroacoustic music or audiovisual arts. Due to the pandemic in 2020, the main focus of the festival was moved to open-air educational activities (workshops on field recording, etc.) and online events (online lectures and concerts). The festival was implemented with the support of the Lviv City Council. 

Concert on the attic I (featuring Solomia Moroz, Roman Feshchak, Alisa Li, Ostap Manulyak)

youtu.be/GKD5BQIaX1k 

Concert on the attic II (featuring Alla Zagaykevych, Yana Shliabanska, Krzysztof Gawlas, Anton Stuk, Dariusz Mazurowski, Mehmet Can Özer)

youtu.be/pyrxnJ_12Og 

Serhiy Horobets and ∿ und̷e̷l̷ě̷t̷e̷d̷ (Yurko Bulka), Wave-Particle Stimulus

youtu.be/BaSB_O6R3Ow 

TETRAMATYKA 2021, “Technology and sensitiveness”

12 September – 17 October 2021, Lviv

Partners: Lem Station, Center for Urban History of East Central Europe, RadioGarage, Lviv—UNESCO City of Literature, EESEM Studio of Lviv Music Academy, Department of current artistic practices of Lviv National Academy of Arts, Studio for Electroacoustic Music of Krakow Academy of Music, Polish Institute, French Institute, Austrian Program of Academic of exchanges OeAD, AudioArt Festival, City of Krakow 

TETRAMATYKA is an event that focuses on multimedia and interactive art. The festival was founded in 2013 as a small chamber art event and grew up to become an international festival with a vast program. Audio and audiovisual performances are a very important part of every edition of the festival. The 2021 edition included a separate part dedicated to sound with workshops, exhibitions, and concerts/performances. Among others, the legendary sound performance Speaker Swinging by Gordon Monahan (CA) was presented as part of “Solaris. A series of performances dedicated to the 100th anniversary of Stanislaw Lem” https://youtu.be/dV4g86x_eLo 

Other performances:

MOON2 (Denis Kolokol, Ernest Ogorek, Jakub Rutkowski)

youtu.be/m075bqA4ok4 

Voices of the Cosmos (Rafał Iwański, Wojciech Zięba, Sebastian Soberski)

youtu.be/Scj2JTBAyR4 

Piotr Madej, Golem 2021

Artur Lis, Homos Anthropos or the terrible Paleface

youtu.be/JUnOx5QrhPk?t=235 

TETRAMATYKA 2021 was implemented with the support of the Ukrainian Cultural Foundation and the Lviv City Council.

tetramatyka.org.ua/home 

Reactivation

20 July – 10 October 2022, Lviv

The multidisciplinary art and educational project “Reactivation” included workshops dedicated to various problematics of sound and audio and an exhibition of multimedia artworks featuring sound installations. The “Reactivation” project took place within the framework of #ZMINA_2_0 which is a subgrant program of the IZOLYATSIA foundation with the financial support of the European Union. 

nurt.org.ua/p/blog-page_20.html