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When several Belarusians moved into Berlin,
they were Ales Taranovich, Ihar Ermakou and Ihar Kashkurevich,
Taranovich decided to open an exhibition of the Belarusian art and to promote
this project. They got the support from TACHELES.
They even managed to reached the Senate and to get money.
They contacted the Academy of Arts in Belarus, Jauhen Schunejka became a promoter.
And what happened, when the first list of the candidates was sent to Berlin,
the people, who were awaited so much, were not presented there.
So, in Berlin they caught it, that it had been the result of the backstreet intrigues.
And they decided to ball the jack: the exhibition didn’t happen, if Rodzin wouldn't come.
Andrej from the band Zatripo played at the opening, Ales performed.
The second DACH Festival was an exhibition of Ales and musicians from TACHELES.
Everyone could come, bring her or his
acoustics and play and sing. The DACH-III happened in 2003 in Minsk in the Museum of Cinema.
Bianka Pflegel came from TACHELES, for two months she was hanging around here in the workshops.
Afterwards there was a plein-air. It was a ten days festival program. So, what had happened.
On the first day we, The Mechanists of Culture”, performed at the street.
The director of the Palace, who was either a former or present cop of a big rank
or something like this, started to stamp one’s feet and to shout,
that he would arrest everyone, when he saw, what was happening there.
He had been calmed down. However, when on the next day we came there, we saw an add:
The Festival is cancelled, everything is forbidden”. - So, it was after a phone call
from the authorities?
- No, it was according to the will of the director of the Palace. Ales accompanied
by Ilja Sin went to him. The director was stamping his feet and shouted.
So, the exhibition took place, but the festival didn’t happen.
Next editions of the DACH Festival happened sometimes in Minsk and sometimes in Berlin,
with music support and just art exhibitions.
The DACH-VIII had the name The Victims of Art, it was a Berlin variant,
and DACH-IX. The Victims of Art” was displayed in the whole Palace.