Donut Hole for Harms Award Winners Automatic translate

ST. PETERSBURG. The first season of the Daniel Harms Award has kicked off.

The regiment of Harms contests in St. Petersburg arrived. The Four-legged Crow, which has been encouraging authors of absurd poems, ironic stories, and plays for ten years, has a younger sister, the Daniil Kharms Prize. The newborn feels great, plans to become an annual, counts on the generosity of patrons and the opening of new talents. The work of applicants is accepted from August 23, the results will be summed up by the organizing committee on December 30. Selected dates are symbolic. The first is the day of the arrest of Daniil Ivanovich (in 1941, according to a denunciation by an agent of the NKVD who reported on the defeatist mood of the writer), the second is his birthday. Unlike the Crow, which only evaluates literary work, the Harms Prize may be writers, artists, musicians, and avant-garde television, theater, and film projects. In this aspect, the versatility of the talent of the rebellious Oberiut is reflected.

Creativity squeezed out of life by a troubled genius who did not fit into the “collective unconscious” is as relevant as ever. Like the creation of a memorial prize in his name, her avant-garde message and the hope for creative fearlessness of the nominees. Talent, innovation and creativity are welcome. The ability to fit their extraordinary creations into the intuitively guessed and therefore fragile boundaries of what is permitted is now a quality not at all superfluous. The owners of the first and second places receive not only a cash prize, but also the sculptural “Holes from the donation of the MPC”. For less successful nominees - incentive prizes. The amount of cash rewards for winners may vary depending on the amount of funds raised on a crowdfunding basis. Unlike other initiatives actively funded by the state, the Harms Award can only count on the enthusiasm and creativity of its founders.

Elena Tanakova © Gallerix.ru