A wandering performance composed of installations and actions inspired by the place.
created by: Maria Stafyniak, Natalia Szostak, Weronika Fibich, Paweł Romańczuk and the local residents
“The Elephant” – community arts
Concept: Maria Stafyniak
The meeting with the Other takes place daily, continually, no matter where I am. It happens when I wake up, and when I sleep, when I look in the mirror, and when I meet a man for the first time. I still experience that when meeting another, I meet myself. This is very important – I am still forgetting about it and it still comes back to my memory. Recently I have often been to playgrounds and I am fascinated by the gap between the world of adults, focused on the meaning of all activities, and the world of children who love the taste of seemingly idle fun. I am looking for a meeting place, for a space that tells me: “You are here and now, you do not need to do anything, you do not need to go anywhere, there is nothing you have to understand, there is nothing you have to think or say.
Maria Stafyniak – in my art I use various media: drawing, object, installation, photography. The main source of language of my art is an everyday life; the main source of questions and interests is my yoga practice. The themes constantly emerging in my work and in the workshop activities include perception of the image, time, memory and the relation between image and language are. I run workshops for children, adolescents and adults using elements of language of contemporary art that are used as a starting point for decoding and deconstructing contemporary culture. I am involved in activities of the “Oswajanie Sztuki”. I graduated from the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan. I live in Szczecin.
The Return Route / Der Weg zurück – installation
Concept: Natalia Szostak
Interactive installation in the space of the park surrounding the chateau in Stolec. A specially marked path will lead the participants from the center of the village into the wilderness of the old baroque garden, where the previously arranged shelter, a place of rest and contemplation will be waiting for them. Thy will be also asked one question there. The responses written by the participants will become an important part of the final collective structure, which will slowly disappear to the rhythm of the surrounding nature after they leave.
Natalia Szostak is a visual artist. She was born in Szczecin in 1980. She studied painting at The San Francisco State University in California and graphic art at the Academy of Art in Szczecin. She received the Artistic Award of the Mayor of the City of Szczecin for outstanding artistic achievements in 2013 and the awards for outstanding young artists in the international contest organized by the X-Power Gallery in Los Angeles in 2009. Two times she was granted with the scholarship of the Mayor of Szczecin. She is the author of the social project Platerøwka (held between 2011 and 2014), devoted to popularization of art outside the traditional gallery and museum structures. Currently she is a lecturer at the Painting and Drawing Studio at the Visual Arts Faculty of the Academy of Art in Szczecin and a PhD student at the Poznań University of Art. She lives and works in Szczecin.
A Hiding – community arts
Concept: Veronika Fibich; protagonists: relatives of Mrs. Waala Malinowska
Each and every place – if you draw it or build a spatial model of it – is a specific net of threads, a structure of messages generated on different levels. Each and every place reflects the spatial expression of time.
This time I am trying to explore the limit of memory by discovering the story of Mrs. Waala Malinowska, once the oldest resident of Stolec village. I never talked to her. I recreate shreds of her story from the recordings made by someone else, looking for tangents and uniqueness, for processes of memorizing and forgetting. I explore three heterogeneous layers of memories: of her great-grandchildren (Julia and Patryk), of her grandchildren (Weronika, Marta, Adrian), and of her sons (Mirek, Andrzej, Zbigniew). Together with them, we are building a hideout for a character still existing on the border, between the Here and There, between the experienced and the remembered. Leaving my own images / signs in the public space to be read by others, we do not actually tell our stories, but we let the threads we grasp to develop.
Weronika Fibich works on the border between performing arts, reportage and documentary. He has been involved in activities of the Kana Theatre Centre since 1998. Besides cultural and educational projects implemented within the framework of the Centre, for many years she has been pursuing her own individual artistic path.
She is interested in activities carried out in non-theatrical space; o the border between the private and the public. The most common subject taken be her is the concept of borderland, exclusion, memory and identity. Her working method she call “a drawing from memory”. The value of “a drawing” consists in a connection of the private with the public, the reasoned with the intuitive, the recalled with the sensed. She is the author of several books, a director of theatrical / performative actions, and a co-producer of documentary films and many cultural projects.
GRAGRANICA
Concept: Paweł Romańczuk
The purpose of the workshop action in Stolec dedicated to its inhabitants will be the combination of identification of local sound identity with a DIY creation of playing structures embedded in the space of Stolec. The borderlands are interesting social enclaves in which borders (in this case, the Polish-German border) are less explicit and literal. Sometimes the meaning of one’s own living space is less determined by the administration, and more by sense of space in terms of micro-geography. By concentrating on broadly understood sound (both the audiospherical one, and the creative one), I would like the participants to build together several instruments / sonic constructions referring to the sound qualities of places known to the inhabitants, followed by an attempt to confer those places – enriching the quality of life in social dimension – with some meaning, to comprehend them and to “feel” them symbolically. Manual and technical involvement of the participants (from any age group), the desire to enrich one’s own place with unique sound creations, and perhaps to give them permanent audiospheric identification – are the processes that I would like to initiate in the hope that they may have an impact on life of inhabitants of Stolec.
Paweł Romańczuk was born in 1975. He is a musician and a composer. He has been developing research in the field of unusual sound sources since 2006. He is a founder of the Wroclaw-based group Małe Instrumenty providing him the opportunity to pursue his own artistic needs. He is the author of music for films and theatre productions. He builds his own instruments and playing structures, as well as creates sound installations. In 2010 he published the first research paper on the history of toy piano. In 2013 he wrote a textbook titled “Home Experiments with Musical Instruments” dedicated to education in the field of DIY making experimental musical instruments and released jointly with the album by Małe Instrumenty titled Samoróbka. He runs workshops, presentations, lectures and exhibitions related to sound instruments and sound experiments.
6.00 p.m. start: Klub, Stolec 9 [PL]
Free admission for all events
full programe: "Places and Borders"
more information: Caravana next
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“Places and Borders” is a part of the project Caravan Next –Feed the Future: Art moving Cities.
Organizers: Ośrodek Teatralny Kana, Muzeum Pomorza w Greifswaldzie
Partners: Gminne Centrum Kultury i Bibliotek w Dobrej, Teatr Brama z Goleniowa, OSP z Dobrej, Pałac Stolec, Dworek przy Świdwiu, Izba Muzealna w Glashütte, Stowarzyszenie Edukacyjno-Artystyczne "Oswajanie sztuki"
Host of the place: Luiza Ślusarenko-Supernak
Coordynation: Kinga Rabińska i Dorota Makrutzki
Artistic conception: Weronika Fibich, Rafał Foremski
More information:
Kinga Rabińska, kinga.rabinska@gmail.com, tel. +48 665490310 [PL]
Dorota Makrutzki, kulturreferat@pommersches-landesmuseum.de, tel. +49 15172413243 [DE]
A wandering performance composed of installations and actions inspired by the place.
created by: Maria Stafyniak, Natalia Szostak, Weronika Fibich, Paweł Romańczuk and the local residents
“The Elephant” – community arts
Concept: Maria Stafyniak
The meeting with the Other takes place daily, continually, no matter where I am. It happens when I wake up, and when I sleep, when I look in the mirror, and when I meet a man for the first time. I still experience that when meeting another, I meet myself. This is very important – I am still forgetting about it and it still comes back to my memory. Recently I have often been to playgrounds and I am fascinated by the gap between the world of adults, focused on the meaning of all activities, and the world of children who love the taste of seemingly idle fun. I am looking for a meeting place, for a space that tells me: “You are here and now, you do not need to do anything, you do not need to go anywhere, there is nothing you have to understand, there is nothing you have to think or say.
Maria Stafyniak – in my art I use various media: drawing, object, installation, photography. The main source of language of my art is an everyday life; the main source of questions and interests is my yoga practice. The themes constantly emerging in my work and in the workshop activities include perception of the image, time, memory and the relation between image and language are. I run workshops for children, adolescents and adults using elements of language of contemporary art that are used as a starting point for decoding and deconstructing contemporary culture. I am involved in activities of the “Oswajanie Sztuki”. I graduated from the Faculty of Painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Poznan. I live in Szczecin.
The Return Route / Der Weg zurück – installation
Concept: Natalia Szostak
Interactive installation in the space of the park surrounding the chateau in Stolec. A specially marked path will lead the participants from the center of the village into the wilderness of the old baroque garden, where the previously arranged shelter, a place of rest and contemplation will be waiting for them. Thy will be also asked one question there. The responses written by the participants will become an important part of the final collective structure, which will slowly disappear to the rhythm of the surrounding nature after they leave.
Natalia Szostak is a visual artist. She was born in Szczecin in 1980. She studied painting at The San Francisco State University in California and graphic art at the Academy of Art in Szczecin. She received the Artistic Award of the Mayor of the City of Szczecin for outstanding artistic achievements in 2013 and the awards for outstanding young artists in the international contest organized by the X-Power Gallery in Los Angeles in 2009. Two times she was granted with the scholarship of the Mayor of Szczecin. She is the author of the social project Platerøwka (held between 2011 and 2014), devoted to popularization of art outside the traditional gallery and museum structures. Currently she is a lecturer at the Painting and Drawing Studio at the Visual Arts Faculty of the Academy of Art in Szczecin and a PhD student at the Poznań University of Art. She lives and works in Szczecin.
A Hiding – community arts
Concept: Veronika Fibich; protagonists: relatives of Mrs. Waala Malinowska
Each and every place – if you draw it or build a spatial model of it – is a specific net of threads, a structure of messages generated on different levels. Each and every place reflects the spatial expression of time.
This time I am trying to explore the limit of memory by discovering the story of Mrs. Waala Malinowska, once the oldest resident of Stolec village. I never talked to her. I recreate shreds of her story from the recordings made by someone else, looking for tangents and uniqueness, for processes of memorizing and forgetting. I explore three heterogeneous layers of memories: of her great-grandchildren (Julia and Patryk), of her grandchildren (Weronika, Marta, Adrian), and of her sons (Mirek, Andrzej, Zbigniew). Together with them, we are building a hideout for a character still existing on the border, between the Here and There, between the experienced and the remembered. Leaving my own images / signs in the public space to be read by others, we do not actually tell our stories, but we let the threads we grasp to develop.
Weronika Fibich works on the border between performing arts, reportage and documentary. He has been involved in activities of the Kana Theatre Centre since 1998. Besides cultural and educational projects implemented within the framework of the Centre, for many years she has been pursuing her own individual artistic path.
She is interested in activities carried out in non-theatrical space; o the border between the private and the public. The most common subject taken be her is the concept of borderland, exclusion, memory and identity. Her working method she call “a drawing from memory”. The value of “a drawing” consists in a connection of the private with the public, the reasoned with the intuitive, the recalled with the sensed. She is the author of several books, a director of theatrical / performative actions, and a co-producer of documentary films and many cultural projects.
GRAGRANICA
Concept: Paweł Romańczuk
The purpose of the workshop action in Stolec dedicated to its inhabitants will be the combination of identification of local sound identity with a DIY creation of playing structures embedded in the space of Stolec. The borderlands are interesting social enclaves in which borders (in this case, the Polish-German border) are less explicit and literal. Sometimes the meaning of one’s own living space is less determined by the administration, and more by sense of space in terms of micro-geography. By concentrating on broadly understood sound (both the audiospherical one, and the creative one), I would like the participants to build together several instruments / sonic constructions referring to the sound qualities of places known to the inhabitants, followed by an attempt to confer those places – enriching the quality of life in social dimension – with some meaning, to comprehend them and to “feel” them symbolically. Manual and technical involvement of the participants (from any age group), the desire to enrich one’s own place with unique sound creations, and perhaps to give them permanent audiospheric identification – are the processes that I would like to initiate in the hope that they may have an impact on life of inhabitants of Stolec.
Paweł Romańczuk was born in 1975. He is a musician and a composer. He has been developing research in the field of unusual sound sources since 2006. He is a founder of the Wroclaw-based group Małe Instrumenty providing him the opportunity to pursue his own artistic needs. He is the author of music for films and theatre productions. He builds his own instruments and playing structures, as well as creates sound installations. In 2010 he published the first research paper on the history of toy piano. In 2013 he wrote a textbook titled “Home Experiments with Musical Instruments” dedicated to education in the field of DIY making experimental musical instruments and released jointly with the album by Małe Instrumenty titled Samoróbka. He runs workshops, presentations, lectures and exhibitions related to sound instruments and sound experiments.
6.00 p.m. start: Klub, Stolec 9 [PL]
Free admission for all events
full programe: "Places and Borders"
more information: Caravana next
Facebook
“Places and Borders” is a part of the project Caravan Next –Feed the Future: Art moving Cities.
Organizers: Ośrodek Teatralny Kana, Muzeum Pomorza w Greifswaldzie
Partners: Gminne Centrum Kultury i Bibliotek w Dobrej, Teatr Brama z Goleniowa, OSP z Dobrej, Pałac Stolec, Dworek przy Świdwiu, Izba Muzealna w Glashütte, Stowarzyszenie Edukacyjno-Artystyczne "Oswajanie sztuki"
Host of the place: Luiza Ślusarenko-Supernak
Coordynation: Kinga Rabińska i Dorota Makrutzki
Artistic conception: Weronika Fibich, Rafał Foremski
More information:
Kinga Rabińska, kinga.rabinska@gmail.com, tel. +48 665490310 [PL]
Dorota Makrutzki, kulturreferat@pommersches-landesmuseum.de, tel. +49 15172413243 [DE]