STREET ART COMMUNICATION started as an international workshop , applying graffiti & streetart onto city trams and buses.
STREET ART COMMUNICATION team is organizing SACFEST - 7 day International Festival of Street-art.
The main difference between similar events is communication at work between artists in one area.
STREET ART COMMUNICATION is revitalizing public space with cans of colors, communicating between each other :) and supporting healthy lifestyle.
307 Graffiti - 90 BPM - Art Direct - Alternativewear - Artattack - Art - Eko - Arttoday - Bázis Store - Begood - Copyvait - Abode of Chaos - DJ Center - DocSK - Easthetic Festival - Europejska Fundacja Kultury Miejskiej - Foomo Skateboards - Four Elements - Hip-Hop.sk - Kasárne Kulturpark - KC Dunaj - Košice EHMK 2013 - Monorex - Nuart - 12roll - Outline - Pohoda Festival - Permanent Unit - Secret Wars - Spots - Tabačka Kulturfabrik - Východné Pobrežie - We Are Not Sisters - Wafličky - Xichtoplesk - Yaxcreativeshop
After successful Street Art Communication workshop 2008, focused on street artists from Košice (SK) and Budapest (HU), comes resumption with the same name Street Art Communication 2009. Basement of the festival was situated in the city of Košice again, however in co-operation with the University of UPJŠ ( http://www.upjs.sk ), we moved from the downtown to the academic area. The dormitories at Medická street were hosting artists from the six countries (Slovakia, Czech republic, Hungary, Italy, Germany and France) for all the week. Surface works, which can be seen in every bigger city all over the world, classified as vandalism by our society, were shown in very different intensity and quality criterion. It was the opportunity to understand that street art, graffiti, stickers, or 3D objects are not just about adventure pursuit anymore. They are increasingly completing the city’s surroundings as private expressions of artists: ironic allusions, political references, disagreements as well as poetic pictures, colorsand visual games installed humorously and concisely right into the concrete streetcontexts.
This project was inspired by city and its streets, comes out from experiences with activities similar with ones, organized around the world. Leading case in organizing of the street art events came out of Berlin which has been attracting street-artists from the entire world since its reunion. City, that is generous to exhibitions of contemporary arts with huge amount of post communist locations and damaged buildings. Festival was unique opportunity to meet with several authorities from Slovakia and other EU countries. Various forms of presentations and live connections of citizens with artists of this new art was great opportunity to know their work. It might also be an impulse for the inhabitants of Košice to begin with perceiving of this brand of contemporary art from the different point of view.
In addition there can be found activities like projections of the movies with familiar topic, best production contest, music productions and especially walking in the area where can be seen all the artists at work. The festival was culminating in an exhibition at the gallery, where had been presented photographs of paintings. The whole action was issued as a catalog with DVD, a short video about the preparations, events, process, with documentation additional programs and interviews with the participants.
