Cardboardia — state of mind
Cardboardia «State of Mind»
Cardboardia is a state without territory, founded in 2007 and aimed at creating a community with a sustainable economy without territory and without natural resources. Cardboardia brings together creative people from around the world — artists, engineers, artists, producers, filmmakers, and other professions. All together they implement both the most incredible and quite realistic ideas. Cardboardia organizes public spaces and creative economy projects.
Cardboardia has no land, which means it has no natural resources, the main source of other countries' prosperity. The goal of Cardboardia’s experiment is to create a precedent where the economy of an international multinational community is built around a non-fossil natural resource: creative energy. Cardboardia looks for opportunities to digging this resource not in the natural environment, but in human nature itself.
All projects — workshops, carnivals, performances, parades — are interactive, inviting the audience to participate in all stages from preparation to realization.
We work in these areas:
Cardboardia celebrates its own national holidays and participates in festivals around the world.
Cardboardia has realized several hundred different projects in Russia, Latvia, Slovakia, Finland, the Netherlands, Poland, Denmark, Great Britain, Korea, Germany, and Taiwan.
Cardboardia has no land, which means it has no natural resources, the main source of other countries' prosperity. The goal of Cardboardia’s experiment is to create a precedent where the economy of an international multinational community is built around a non-fossil natural resource: creative energy. Cardboardia looks for opportunities to digging this resource not in the natural environment, but in human nature itself.
All projects — workshops, carnivals, performances, parades — are interactive, inviting the audience to participate in all stages from preparation to realization.
We work in these areas:
- street performance laboratories,
- street and site-specific performances,
- exhibitions,
- parades,
- carnivals.
Cardboardia celebrates its own national holidays and participates in festivals around the world.
Cardboardia has realized several hundred different projects in Russia, Latvia, Slovakia, Finland, the Netherlands, Poland, Denmark, Great Britain, Korea, Germany, and Taiwan.
Tyrannical Messenger
- Now at Cardboardia we offer several methods of communication — a Telegram channel in Russian (link — by personal invitation of Cardboardia Persoanges), and the Cardboardia group on FB is mainly in English.
- Both groups publish selected announcements about future and posts about past Cardboardia events.
- All groups are also open for member postings if you thing that the topics are of interest to the other Cardboardia Personages.
- You can also follow some of Cardboardia’s news on Instagram.
If you want to Telegram – email papertown(@)gmail.com
https://www.facebook.com/groups/cardboardia
Ambox
WHAT IS AN AMBOX?
THE HISTORY OF ITS CREATION
The Alchemical Music Box (Ambox) is an art object and a musical instrument.
It was created by Sergei Ryzhkov, a London-based inventor. He wanted to create a musical player that would not depend on standard power sources. Sergey Korsakov, the Tyran of Cadboardia, saw him one day in the park playing what looked like a strange hurdy-gurdy, and told the English musician Stephen Coates about it. Stephen immediately suggested that special music should be recorded for the music box and came up with the name "Ambox" – An Alchemical Music box.
Together they decided to develop the idea further. Thus, around May 2016, the Ambox was born: on the outside — a classic wooden organ, on the inside — a clever electro-mechanical device that transforms the human energy of the rotated handle into music recorded on an SD memory-card. The Ambox can play up to 99 tracks, but the memory card can be changed at any time with new music.
THE EXTRAORDINARY EFFECT OF THE AMBOX
In practice, we have found that the Ambox interacts with the environment and the people who use and hear it in an amazing way. Wherever the organ-grinder appears, it harmonizes with the surrounding spaces, people gather around and the unifying energy makes them want to move and sing. People naturally want to play the Ambox themselves.
Most people like to be the center of attention some of the time. Even those who have never managed to learn to play a musical instrument can become the life and soul of the party with the help of an Ambox. Others can just play for themselves j - to dance and to get into a good mood!
No borders, no boundaries for creative energy!
THE HISTORY OF ITS CREATION
The Alchemical Music Box (Ambox) is an art object and a musical instrument.
It was created by Sergei Ryzhkov, a London-based inventor. He wanted to create a musical player that would not depend on standard power sources. Sergey Korsakov, the Tyran of Cadboardia, saw him one day in the park playing what looked like a strange hurdy-gurdy, and told the English musician Stephen Coates about it. Stephen immediately suggested that special music should be recorded for the music box and came up with the name "Ambox" – An Alchemical Music box.
Together they decided to develop the idea further. Thus, around May 2016, the Ambox was born: on the outside — a classic wooden organ, on the inside — a clever electro-mechanical device that transforms the human energy of the rotated handle into music recorded on an SD memory-card. The Ambox can play up to 99 tracks, but the memory card can be changed at any time with new music.
THE EXTRAORDINARY EFFECT OF THE AMBOX
In practice, we have found that the Ambox interacts with the environment and the people who use and hear it in an amazing way. Wherever the organ-grinder appears, it harmonizes with the surrounding spaces, people gather around and the unifying energy makes them want to move and sing. People naturally want to play the Ambox themselves.
Most people like to be the center of attention some of the time. Even those who have never managed to learn to play a musical instrument can become the life and soul of the party with the help of an Ambox. Others can just play for themselves j - to dance and to get into a good mood!
No borders, no boundaries for creative energy!
The State Street Theater of Cardboardia
Cardboardia is a state without a territory, founded in 2007 and for more than 15 years it has been bringing together the Personages of Cardboardia, people from all over the world — theater directors, visual and performer artists, researchers, producers to implement the most strange and crazy ideas in the field of organizing events in public spaces.
Since the founding of Cardboardia, street activities, national holidays, festivals, and processions in Cardboard Towns have always been the center of the public life of the Residents of Cardboardia (Personages). For many years, we have accumulated a lot of experience in organizing and conducting theater plays, performances, games and other street events. Based on this, the country’s leadership made a timely decision to create The State Street Theater of Cardboardia.
The main idea of the «The State Street Theater of Cardboardia» is total immersiveness, radical inclusion of people in the process, so that each person from the viewer easily turns into a character and influences the action of what is happening with their participation.
«Cardboardia Official Orchestra», «Tamagotchi Live!», «Entrance», «Searching for Creative Energy» and other shows we created last years, description and communication look MORE
Since the founding of Cardboardia, street activities, national holidays, festivals, and processions in Cardboard Towns have always been the center of the public life of the Residents of Cardboardia (Personages). For many years, we have accumulated a lot of experience in organizing and conducting theater plays, performances, games and other street events. Based on this, the country’s leadership made a timely decision to create The State Street Theater of Cardboardia.
The main idea of the «The State Street Theater of Cardboardia» is total immersiveness, radical inclusion of people in the process, so that each person from the viewer easily turns into a character and influences the action of what is happening with their participation.
«Cardboardia Official Orchestra», «Tamagotchi Live!», «Entrance», «Searching for Creative Energy» and other shows we created last years, description and communication look MORE
Russian Union of Street Theaters and Artists
«What can’t be done alone but can be done together?» was the question at the end of 2018, when the Russian Union of Street Theaters and Artists, an informal organisation that brings together people passionate about street theater and art in public spaces in Russia and beyond, was founded.
Over the course of several years, TRUSTa has become the main communication platform, on the basis of which community members come up with and implement projects in the public spaces.
The TRUSTa organizers are participants and curators of most street theater festivals in Russia.
Over the course of several years, TRUSTa has become the main communication platform, on the basis of which community members come up with and implement projects in the public spaces.
The TRUSTa organizers are participants and curators of most street theater festivals in Russia.
Cardboardia Factory
When the first world lockdown began, an online Factory for the extraction of Creative Energy, the main natural resource of Cardboardia country, was opened. Several dozen people from different cities, daily for many hours, almost maniacally, tried to master the possibilities of pumping energy at a distance from each other. We studied new creative tools for ouselves, invented and organized online events together.
For the Tyran of Cardboardia, this was a breakthrough into the virtual world. The visual result of the process was a series of animated videos.
Now we love hybrid events and all offline actions prepared with online tools.
For the Tyran of Cardboardia, this was a breakthrough into the virtual world. The visual result of the process was a series of animated videos.
Now we love hybrid events and all offline actions prepared with online tools.
X-Ray Audio
Cardboardia at the Museums of Modern Art
The Tyran of Cardboardia helped to Stephen Coates, Cardboardia minister of Complaints and Suggestions, in the research and realization of the more than five-year long project, «Bone Music» («X-Ray Audio»).
This is a story about the value of music in the modern world, using the history of the USSR as an example, when music was recorded on x-rays scans and you could get up to 20 years in prison for distributing it.
Sergey Korsakov (Tyran of Cardboardia) acted as a producer of the project in Russia and Germany, and the Persanages of Cardboardia helped in the design of exhibitions in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Stephen also was writed and published a book, exhibitions and events were organized in many countries of the world, including Great Britain, Japan, Israel.
Exhibition was made in Moscow (with participation of Personages of Cardboardia)
The Tyran of Cardboardia helped to Stephen Coates, Cardboardia minister of Complaints and Suggestions, in the research and realization of the more than five-year long project, «Bone Music» («X-Ray Audio»).
This is a story about the value of music in the modern world, using the history of the USSR as an example, when music was recorded on x-rays scans and you could get up to 20 years in prison for distributing it.
Sergey Korsakov (Tyran of Cardboardia) acted as a producer of the project in Russia and Germany, and the Persanages of Cardboardia helped in the design of exhibitions in Moscow and St. Petersburg.
Stephen also was writed and published a book, exhibitions and events were organized in many countries of the world, including Great Britain, Japan, Israel.
Exhibition was made in Moscow (with participation of Personages of Cardboardia)
The Cardboardia Open Workshop
The Cardboardia Open Workshop is a space of creative freedom. The participants work like real contemporary artists: playing, improvising, finding solutions to unusual problems, and, as a result, creating incredible art objects, each with its own unique history. Every guest of the Open Workshop gets a chance to try their hand at various types of contemporary art—they can take part in performances, stage immersive theatre shows, or create interactive events.
«For more than 15 years now, members of the Cardboardia community have explored the most crucial aspects of society through art. We find ways to connect people and even bridge gaps between different cultures. We create safe and friendly spaces where, regardless of your age, education or skills, you can pursue contemporary art and be the artist, the explorer, and the audience all at once.»
Tyran of Cardboardia
«For more than 15 years now, members of the Cardboardia community have explored the most crucial aspects of society through art. We find ways to connect people and even bridge gaps between different cultures. We create safe and friendly spaces where, regardless of your age, education or skills, you can pursue contemporary art and be the artist, the explorer, and the audience all at once.»
Tyran of Cardboardia
No borders, no boundaries for creative energy!
Create! Earn! Play!
Cardboardia — state of mind
©Cardboardia 2007
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Illustrations by Alexander Vorozhko
Layout by Olesya Kandalintseva (Cardboardia Minister of Education)
Layout by Olesya Kandalintseva (Cardboardia Minister of Education)