PHONART, conceived 2009, launch 1. May 2010, is a combined effort by 5 European art organizations to pool their capacities to support new interdisciplinary art works & performances, which are the basis of PHONART.All partners are established protagonists, locally & internationally, of interdisciplinary contemporary art production.We will support European creativity & research, run workshops, & support the diversity of interdisciplinary art practices emphasizing cultural diversity. Looking outwards, we establish future partnerships.Each group will curate projects relating to the LOST LANGUAGES OF EUROPE e.g. Cincari, Istrioto, "marginal" dialects & plan tour programmes for artists to present their work in the partner countries.The 5 partners will collaborate in various constellations, in a series of border-crossing events throughout the region, bringing artists & audiences together beyond geographical & linguistic borders.These collaborations will be manifested in the PHONART WEBSITE, which will serve as a communication & publicity platform, including a discussion forum.Users will be able to upload & share sound samples that form the basis of a large virtual archive documenting lost languages, with field recordings & acoustic fragments. PHONART also includes an emphasis on European cultural research. A research group will generate high-level international exchanges culminating in workshops & an enterprise z network project. We see PHONART as a sociopolitical initiative focussing on artistic & cultural Europe as a whole. PHONART challenges artists, professionals & audiences on the issue of European identity through art & languages, encouraging a culture of openness.PHONART will conclude with an international RADIO PROJECT, a live-streaming simultaneous radio event to be broadcast in realtime in all the participating countries at the end of 2011.The focus on Central & Southern Europe has its foundation in a strong, organic network established in recent years.