Kulture Klash 5: Biannual festival gets even larger and puts more emphasis on art
Posted:
11/04/2009 11:00 PM
Back and bigger than ever, the biannual visual, performance and musical arts festival Kulture Klash returns to the Navy Yard at Noisette for its fifth installment Friday and Saturday, adding an additional evening to its formerly one-day roster.
Event co-organizers Gustavo Serrano, Scott Debus and Ambergre Sloan added an artist reception Friday in order to accommodate the festival's full schedule of events, including this year's spoken word room, starving artist exhibit and bicycle-centric happenings, while ensuring that people have enough time to appreciate the festival's visual artworks.
This weekend will be the fifth local art celebration since it was organized in November 2007, when it first was modeled after the Museum of Modern Art's P.S. 1 installation in New York.
Debus said that the local festival's organizers also wanted to expand Charleston's cultural horizon through the event.
"A lot of it, for me, is to change that Southern conservative perspective of the world," Debus said.