The festival is a collaboration with The International Project Green Trees Planet

(see details a bit below)

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SUMMARY OF THE FESTIVAL

Nuomenart (from the Greek νοούμενον - the essence grasped by the mind) is the art of creating new meanings, the play of thought through the art form, the revelation of the intelligible through play, that is, through art. The noumenographer is neither an artist nor a philosopher. He uses only the means of philosophy to comprehend new meanings, and artistic means to give them sensuous contours. He opens a new eidos through emotion, bringing pleasure to himself and others through the emotional experience of previously unknown meanings.

The Noumen ART Creative Lab Public Sessions/Festivals are a series of annual multi-disciplinary cultural events showcasing the most talented and innovative creations of contemporary artists in the fields of music, visual arts, performing arts, screen arts, synthesis of the arts, literature and poetry, including those based on regional and ethnic artistic traditions.

The Noumen ART Festival, formerly known as the Festival of Contemporary Intellectual Art, has been held since 2005. The previous XI International Festival Noumen ART took place in August 2022 in Osttirol, Austria

...The Noumen Art is artistic mind games...

BREAF

The autumn season of 2023 will be truly exceptional. This time the magnificent soundscapes of the mountain ranges will reverberate with the enchanting trumpet of Nils Petter Molvaer, the transcendental guitar riffs of Eivind Aarset and the piano virtuoso David Helbock. These remarkable artists are true devotees of the ECM style, and their performances will be the the most beautiful sound next to silence...

Emerging from the mysterious caves of Cluj-Napoca, the rebellious verses of Nietzsche's Zarathustra will evoke a sense of nostalgia for the legendary hits of Led Zeppelin. At the same time, the mesmerising jazz improvisations of musicians from the Netherlands, Italy, Germany, Poland, France, Spain, Georgia, Russia and Argentina will blend organically with the gentle whisper of the Mediterranean.

As if from nowhere, the breath of the distant Central Asian steppes will penetrate the rock labyrinths, accompanied by the striking installations of the daring Kazakh actionists led by the brilliant Almagul Menlibayeva and Askhat Akhmediarov

The peculiar voices of the Amazonian forests will take festival-goers on a phantasmagorical journey to otherworldly realms. At some point, however, they will be captivated by the gentle, mimodramatic mysteries of Japanese Butoh. For those with nerves of steel, a glimpse of the darkest predictions of humanity's future will be revealed in the prehistoric caves of Cluj-Napoca.

In addition, the festival promises a host of other extraordinary feats that will delight and captivate the mind and imagination.

Welcome to our realm of artistic mind games!

An integral part of the festival NOUMEN ART - Cluj-Napoca'24 will be the "green theme", which we are implementing in partnership with the project Greentreesplanet.com, acting under the auspices of the international environmental movement ECOLOGI.COM

By combining attending the festival with the planting of green spaces, we aim to address local environmental issues, achieving the twofold goal of promoting environmental sustainability and supporting artistic creation inspired by the beauty and harmony of nature, and we hope that our example can be followed by other cultural events in Europe and the world

As part of our NOUMEN ART Festival, each visitor will be invited to plant their own fruit trees on the ranch and decorate them with name tags. The ranchers will carefully care for each cuttings planted and in six months will report back to the person who planted them on how they are growing by providing a video report. Over the years, the cuttings will grow into branching trees bearing life-giving fruit, experimentation in the arts will become mainstream and classic, lavishing the world with the fruits of culture

All Festival guests are rewarded with Green Trees NFT bonuses, which are steadily increasing in value

DREAM LINEUP

PROGRAM

04 - 09 June

June 04 - Eivind Aarset / Nils Petter Molvaer

June 05 - David Helbock / Thierry Zaboitzeff
June 06 - Simone Weißenfels / Darío Dolci & Osvaldo La Porta
June 07 - Peter Szely / Antonella Eye Porcelluzzi & Lärmschutz Group
June 08 - Angel Ontalva / Zbigniew Chojnacki

June 09 - Big Jam & DJ Rave

Full Dream Lineup

Music:

• Nils Petter Molvaer (jazz fusion, Norway)
• Eivind Aarset (fusion, Norway)
• David Helbock (new jazz, experimental music, Austria)
• Thierry Zaboitzeff ( ex-Art Zoyd, progrock, Austria-France)
• K ubikmaggi (jazz, prog rock, classical music, Russia)
• Peter Szely (electronics, Austria)
• Felipe Jose (free-jazz, Brazil)
• Paulo Hartmann (experimental, Brazil)
• Luiz Pretti and Marco Scarassatti (duo of camera and invented instrument, Brazil)
• Pascal Marzan (experimental, UK/France)
• Lärmschutz Group (experimental, free-jazz, Netherlands)
• A ntonella Eye Porcelluzzi (experimental, Italy)
• JUANITO))) (harsh noise, Spain)
• Zbigniew Chojnacki (experimental, Poland)
• Simone Weißenfels (improvisational music, Germany)
• Yuriy Yaremchuk (fusion, jazz fusion, Ukraine)
• Darío Dolci (jazz fusion, improvisational music, Argentina)
• Osvaldo La Porta (jazz fusion, improvisational music, Argentina)
• German Jeselsohn (jazz fusion, improvisational music, Argentina)
• Guram Machavariani (psy-jazz, jazz-fusion, post-rock, Georgia)
• Irakli Sanadiradze (jazz-fusion, Georgia)
• TimeLess Trip (exclusive experimental psybient audio journey, Israel)
• Alesia White Bird (improvisational vocal, psy-jazz, ethno-rock, Russia)
• Anуa PsayJazz (psyjazz, Germany/Romania)

Other types of art, synthesis of arts:

• Almagul Menlibayeva (performance, installation, painting, Germany/Kazakhstan)
• Kollektiv Iиterиatioиal totem (music, performance, art, Switzerland)
• Katerina Pits (visual art, Ukraine)
• Luis Tabuenca (paratheatrical art, Spain)
• Dimitri Venkov (video, visual art, performans, Russia)
• Project NIHIL, dir. Anastasia Shcherbakova (butoh, mimodrama, Russia)
• Valentin Tszin & Das Gegenteil (butoh, Germany)

Almagul Menlibayeva

David Helbock

Thierry Zaboitzeff (Photo: © Laurent Maginelle, 2018)

Kubikmaggi

Askhad Akhmedyarov

Darío Dolci / Osvaldo La Porta

Felipe Jose

Simone Weißenfels

Katerina Pits

Valentin Tszin (© Portrait by Ulrich Heemann , 2012)

Ángel Ontalva & Avelino Saavedra

Yerevan State Pantomime Theatre

Zbigniew Chojnacki

Reso Kiknadze, Guram Machavariani, Irakli Sanadiradze

Arpi Alto

Luis Tabuenca

Kollektiv Iиterиatioиal totem

Gunhild Bjornsgaard

A ntonella Eye Porcelluzzi & Lärmschutz Group

JUANITO)))

Araik Vietinghoff

M s. PsyJazz

Thus Spoke Zarathustra / Teaser

S PECIAL PROGRAM

The exclusive daytime part of the festival program is an immersive dystopian performance using augmented reality, tied to the tourist routes of Cluj-Napoca'24

The performance consists of two parts:

I. HOW MUCH WILL COST PHYSIOLOGICAL IMMORTALITY (cyberpunk trip)

Summary: anonymization of the elites and the new normal, world favelas and the criminal vertical, WBD and the state plan, AI and the occult, a supercomputer on the moon and immortality, posthuman and homo melius

II. WHO WAS THE GODS, DEMONS AND ALL OTHER (godspunk trip)

Summary: esotericism and occult teachings are nothing but the later profaned interpretations of long-lost high technologies, which were owned by the first civilizational-technological cadence

C reated by George Morieli

The festival guest becomes the holder of a bonus up to 5 Green Trees NTF at once, which means 50 trees will be planted across the planet with their direct assistance!