PART I: A GREAT EVENT AS GREAT SEX

26.04.201713.02.2020

Let’s confess: great sex, as well as a great event, is a rarity. It’s even safe to say that it’s the event in itself. Analysis of its ingredients could be really helpful and demonstrative, for there are actually much more similarity in these two things than one could think—and it’s not limited by ‘it’s hard as fuck!’ meme. So, even if you will never organize any events, armed with this knowledge, you will be able at least to re-organize your sex life in a better way. : )

GEM FEST | 2015

Dancing On The Cutting Edge When we were creating the concept for GEM Fest, we wanted to embellish it with as many different meanings and connotations as possible, just as the rather long-winded full title of the Georgian Electronic Music Festival contains the word ‘gem’ in its name: a precious stone, hidden away in an[…]

KAZANTIP REPUBLIC | 2014

Web site Patterns reflecting the key memes of the season Prints Stikers Banners for video wall (48m) Banners for the video deckhouse Movie theatre open air Credits: Mara Fauque — design, web-design, visual solutions, production management, content moderating, art-directing. Oleksandr Demianenko — photo, video directing, camera, cut, sound, movie fest curator. Masha Kuznetsova, Tanja Sharonova aka Freak Fabrique — installations,[…]

KAZANTIP REPUBLIC | 2013

The Brand ID of 21th Kazantip was based on the ‘big bang’ concept. Font Personal plastic cards granting the right of multiple pass at the venue. Lineup poster Lineup billboards 6х3 m at the venue Line-up poster and line-up t-shirt T-shirts Lineup billboards Artists and meme posters for the light boxes Stickers The Opening Ceremony: The Big[…]

KAZANTIP REPUBLIC | 2012

The twentieth, jubilee season of The Kazantip Republic was marked by a documentary series titled ’20 Years Of Our Era’, which became a tagline of the project. It was also embodied in the opening credits of all the short movies produced that year, in the brand ID and the main stage’s decoration. Viza, a personal plastic multi[…]

NIGHT WORLD GOVERNMENT | 2011

‘New York City officially passes bill to create a nightlife office. There will also be a ‘nightlife director,’ whose position is similar to the ‘night czar’ or ‘night mayor’ position in other cities. Their main goal is to advocate for the city’s nightlife by serving as a point of contact between the city and those[…]

KAZANTIP REPUBLIC | 2011

It was a long-time tradition of The Kazantip Republic to have a new brand ID—font, logo, slogan—every year along with a new season’s theme. Changing a well-known and recognizable for something fresh and unknown used to complicate our life a bit, but, luckily, after a few years of such re-dressing we could afford it and it prevented us[…]

SUMMIT ON MARS | 2011

II Summit On Mars was a 3-day conference dedicated to festival events, advanced marketing and social technologies. It was taking place at the territory of Kazantip traditionally called Mars, with the participation of international speakers well known in the industry—owners of music festivals, awards, publishing labels; representatives of major companies and media. Logo Merchandising Press[…]

LIVE ON MARS | 2011

Live On Mars was a subproject of The Kazantip Republic — a festival of live music within an electronic festival, a 4-5 night program taking place at a special live stage. During several years it had not just been giving the young talented bands from Russia and Ukraine a powerful boost, but also introducing to[…]

SOMETHING OF AN ANTHEM | 2011

It’s known that crowdsourcing is not necessarily a feature of low budget projects, but one of the greatest marketing tools and truly a ‘creative communication’ — creative on both sides, a project’s and the audience’s. For a music and art festival like the Kazantip Republic it’s, in a way, a must have. For it allows[…]

IBIZA MUSIC SUMMIT VIDEO | 2011

How we won Ibiza Between 24-29th May 2011 Ibiza hosted the 4th International Music Summit where the Republic was taking part as a speaker. KAZANTIP IS NOT WHAT YOU THINK was the subject of our talk, because, first off, we meant to explain plainly that Kazantip is not a festival. During the performance the reps of[…]

SOMETIMES2 VIDEO | 2010

‘Like anyone else I hear the inner voice. Sometimes two.’ ‘Sometimes2’, the series of meditative and thoughtful micro-videos from Nikola Frantzevich Film Studio, got its name from a humorous sentence belonging to the President — ‘Like anyone else I hear the inner voice. Sometimes two.’ Created in a genre of art-documentary, these shorts reflect our[…]

KAZANTIP REPUBLIC | 2010

Logo Stickers Viza, a plastic multi-pass Kazantip 2010. Mental Asylum The main theme of the season 2010 was a self-ironic idea of our own abnormally. While for its citizens Kazantip Republic was a perfect alternative realm with fair and kind rules, for the rest of the world it seemed to be a grand illusion or even ‘delusion’,[…]

KAZANTIP MOVIE STUDIO | 2010

The Kazantip Republic Presents Nikola Frantzevich Movie Studio The Кazantipian Movie Studio n.a. Nikola Frantsevich was founded in 2010 as the embodiment of long-lasting cinematographic ambitions of the Republic. Not that the Republic had longed to become a new Bollywood, but it would have been silly and thriftless not to use the richness of nature and[…]

KAZANTIP REPUBLIC CONSTITUTION

The Kazantip Republic through the eyes of normal people When it comes to what other, relatively more normal people think of our imaginary world, it’s a big international annual club culture festival held in summer at the Black Sea coast of Crimea, Ukraine (Russia’s neighboring, ex-USSR country). It starts in late July and ends in[…]

WHAT IS KAZANTIP?

What is Kazantip? Huh, as if we know the answer! We’ve been groping for it since 1992 and it’s still somewhere out there. We hope, you too couldn’t satisfy the most important question of your life ‘Who am I?’ in a few words. And we don’t mean your name or occupation. What we know for a[…]

Kazantip fast married plastic certificate

FAST MARRIED | 2003

The concept of Fast Married made up back in 2003 was the development of the concept of the Kazantip Republic — if there’s a state and a constitution, there is also an institute of love and marriage that is meant to be regulated somehow. Since the Kazantip Republic was a realized utopia, an imaginary land striving for more beautiful[…]