Dear friends,
we would like to invite you with us to an ART- EXPEDITION to BAIKAL and BURYATIYA!

This summer The Body Navigation Festival team has decided to move with an art-expedition deep into Siberia, to explore the magnificent Baikal Lake and Asian Buryatya, to collect inspiration, memories, desires, hidden stories, nomad’s dreams and shaman’s trips.

We wish that during this expedition the participants perceive the worth of the trip and local knowledge and see it as an inspiration and potential for their work. Experiences and collected materials will be transformed into artistic work/project/concept and could be presented at the program of V International festival -The Body Navigation in October 2009 in St.-Petersburg. The artists will be given chance to navigate their inspiration/exploration through Russian taiga and steppe, deep forest and mountains, Buddhists’ Buryatiya, the biggest lake in the world and hidden places of Siberia, to challenge themselves and each other on the way between traditional and contemporary art and culture.

We will be guided by experienced guides from Baikal region. Also we will have facilitators from the Baikal region, Buryatiya , who are specialist on traditional Siberian and Tibet medicine, body work, throat singing and shamanistic rituals.

I f you like to join us with the art-expedition to Baikal , please write briefly your ideas about it befor untill May! (the number of participants are limited 15 people)

We would like you ask to send this information around your art community!

In attachment you will find information about the trip to Baikal and Open call for the Body Navigation festival!

Please contact if you have any questions to navigatsia@yandex.ru