Participating partners in project Telling the Baltic met at the Blekinge County Museum during one full day on the 28th of March.
Each present partner presented their ideas on how to collect stories; which included everything ranging from regular interviews with individuals in the South Baltic region to handing out disposable cameras and with little or no guidance asking individuals to visually record their subjective view; letting frozen moments of time represent what the South Baltic region is and means to them. Decisions were made to start a progress-blog that was going to get linked to the Art Line website, from where visitors can follow the process of the project. To get to that blog, click here.
Apart from discussions on method, Agnieszka Wolodzko from Laznia CCA and Talan Memmott from Blekinge Institute of Technology – in their role as artists – presented selected parts of their work relevant to the project . To find out more about Wolodzko´s work click here och here (the last link is in Polish only). More information about Memmotts work can be found here.
After lunch Karin Nilsson showed pictures and video from Blekinge County Museum, after which the group went to have a tour of Blekinge County Museums open magasine which is situated about 7 kilometers from the city centre of Karlskrona, in an area called Rosenholm. Click following link to get more information about the open magasine (information in Swedish only).
Present at the workshop were Pirjo Elovaara, Lissa Holloway Attaway, Talan Memmott and Martin Arvebro representing Blekinge Institute of Technology. Representing Kunsthalle Rostock was Uwe Neumann, and representing Blekinge County Museum were Christina Berup and Karin Nilsson. From Laznia Centre of Contemporary Art came Agnieszka Wolodzko. With here was the Polish visual artist Patrycja Orzechowska with whom Wolodzko plans to co-operate within the framework of Telling The Baltic in the near future. More information about Patrycja and her work can be found here. Present at the meeting was also the project leader of Art Line, Torun Ekstrand.
Entrance doorway to the Blekinge County Museum.
Stand up in the lecture hall of Karlskrona County Museum.
Lissa Holloway Attaway from BTH and Agnieszka Wolodzko from Laznia CCA discuss.
Sit down in the lecture hall of Karlskrona County Museum.
Square table discussion.
Talan Memmott.
Something moving, here static.
Karin Nilsson.
Slide showing fisherwoman of old.
