APosition Creative Union was established in 2001.

APosition Creative Union is a multimedia artistic association in the field of modern Saint-Petersburg’s culture.

The booking agency serves individual artists and troupes representing experimental, non-commercial and loose format music and related art forms.

If you are involved with or represent a specific artistic project, please get in contact with our agency and we will help you arrange concert performances in several clubs in St. Petersburg and Moscow.

We can also assist you in setting up workshops and masterclasses.

Our Creative Union pays special attention to supporting young artists.

For touring inquiries, please send us email to info@aposition.org

booking contact: - Alexei Pliousnine artdirector@aposition.org
address: Savushkina str.109-1, apt.1, Saint-Petersburg, 197374, Russia
tel: +7 911 933 9488

Current projects of the Union

• annual International International Music Forum APOZITSIA

• exhibition “Vinyl: Life and Death”

• Publishing quarterly on-line magazine «MUSART»

• Producing and publishing works by the Union’s members >>>>

• «Voices of Saint-Petersburg» (in collaboration with Russian Poetry Foundation and literary miscellany «Petropol»)

• "Simon Magus" - ballet project

• Heroic project - multimedia performance

• Antarctic project - guitar improv + video art

• Mandelbrot - avant metal free improvizing trio

• DWA - improvizing guitar duo

• DaDaZu - free improvizing noise band

• Totalitarian Music Sect - avant rock, free jazz

• Miro trio - free improv trio

• APosition orchestra - avant rock, free jazz

Members of the Union performed with:
Peter Broetzmann, Patti Smith, Tim Hodgkinson, David Murray, Shelley Hirsch, Raymond Boni, Янка Дягилева, Егор Летов, Сергей Летов, Ник Рок-н-ролл, Gary Lucas, Henry Kaiser, Soren Runolf, Dror Feiler, Daniel Carter, Borah Bergman, Lukas Ligeti, Jon Raskin, Gino Robair, Damon Smith, Marco Enieidi, Lou Grassi, Charles Gayle, Tim Hodgkinson, Jacques Di Donato, Xavier Charles, Didier Lasserre, Christian Brazier, Gerald Zbinden, Han Bennink, Eugene Chadbourne...

Organized concerts:
minimalism godfather Terry Riley, legendary Polish prog rock band SBB, Peter Broetzmann, Pierre Moerlen’s Gong, Hans Reichel & Rudiger Carl, Charles Gale, German krautrock pioneers Faust, ex Samla Mammas Manna leader Lars Holmer, Kimmo Pohjonen, Keith & Julia Tippett, Frank London, Tenores di Bitti, Iranian classical collective by Reza Moafi, Han Bennink, Kampec Dolores, Italian avant rock – free jazz combo Zu, Willem Broeker Kollektieff, Misha Mengelberg, Otomo Yoshihide, Gjallarhorn, Shelley Hirsh, Eugene Chadbourne, ex Can singer Damo Suzuki, mugam master from Azerbajan Alim Kasymov, Michel Berkmans of Univers Zero, Keshavan Maslak, modern Dutch composer Theo Loevendie, Je Chun Park, John Cale of Velvet Underground, Holger Czukay from Can, Fred Frith of Henry Cow, Slave Pianos, Magma, Henry Kaiser, John Oswald, Hamid Drake, William Parker, Gary Lucas from Captain Beefheart Magic Band, David Moss, David Murray, genuine avant garde acordeonist Pauline Oliveros, Marco Enieidi, Lou Grassi, Tim Hodgkinson of Henry Cow, Jacques Di Donato, Хavier Charles, Didier Lasserre, Finnish vocal quartet Me Naiset, Christian Brazier, Metamorphosis, Tara Fuki, De Kift, Владимир Тарасов from Ganelin Trio, Анатолий Вапиров, Валентина Пономарева, Moscow Art Trio, Milan Svoboda, Canadian violinist Nash the Slash, Sainkho Namchylack, Lukas Ligeti, Soren Runolf and Dror Feiler from Locomotiv Konkret, Mark Stewart from Bang on a Can, Эвелина Петрова, royal Koren ensemble Ge Um Hwe …

• Milan Svoboda concert -February 2002

• Sergey Kuryokhin International Festivals SKIF 5, 6, 7, 8, SKIF in Berlin, Dutch SKIF - 2001 - 2004

• "Voices of Saint-Petersburg" - cassete « Consolation» - «Petropol» award, 2001
  
  "Voices of Saint-Petersburg" - Yuri Tomoshevsky reads Sasha Cherny

• one act ballet "Simon Magus" (in collaboration with Mariinsky theatre): 2003

• Peter Broetzmann gig - May 2004

• "Voices of Saint-Petersburg" - Zinaida Sharko reads Marina Zvetajeva and Olga Berggolz

• Alexei Pliousnin tour in USA, Bluzak recordings at the Fantasy records - Summer 2004

• concert by Quartet De Clarinettes Et Autres - Isabelle Duthoit/ Jacques Di Donato/ Xavier Charles/ Tim Hodgkinson: February 2005

• first issue of MUSART - Spring 2005

• "Voices of Saint-Petersburg" - Oleg Basilashvili reads Rena

• free weekly gigs of improvizing music, sound poetry, free jazz at GEZ 21, TaMtAm - 2004-2005

• David Murray gig at TaMtAm - February 2005

• Marco Eneidi/ Alexei Pliousnine/ Lou Grassi (USA/Russia) tour in Moscow, St.Petersburg: Summer 2005

• tour with Gary Lucas, Moscow, St.Petersburg - Summer 2005

• Gary Lucas plays Golem - June 2005, Moscow, St.Petersburg

• International Music Forum APOZITSIA 2005 - Fall, 2006

• second issue of MUSART - Fall 2005

• concert of Royal Korean ensemble Gue-Um-Hwe - January 2006

• third issue of MUSART - Spring 2006

• James Fei (Taiwan/USA) gig at JFC (in cooperation with Pro Arte) - April 2006

• So Percussion (USA) gig at JFC (in cooperation with CEC ArtsLink and Bang on the Can Festival (New York) - May 2006

• Producing and publishing works by the Union’s members

• exhibition “Vinyl: Life and Death”