MEMORY OF WATER // SHIPYARD A/NEW

CITY LAB: DREAMS TO FULFILL

18 OCTOBER 2019 r. / Piątek

Old Towna Hall, 33/35 Korzenna Street, Gdańsk

Part 1: Heritage For Future (Session in Polish except for*)

10:00 Official Opening and Welcoming of Guests

Introduction:

  • Lawrence Ugwu, Director, The Baltic Sea Cultural Centre in Gdańsk,
  • Iwona Preis, Intercult, Stockholm, Coordinator, European Project “Memory of Water”
  • Agnieszka Wołodźko, Curator of Art Residencies, MoW in Gdańsk

*10:40–11:15 Key-note in English: “The role of artists and cultural managers in the development of post-shipyard and post-harbour areas in Copenhagen”

  • Trevor Davies, Architect and Artistic Directore, MetropolisFestival, Copenhagen,,

11:15-11:30 coffee break

11:30-13:30

  • Klaudia Nowicka PhD, Magdalena Szmytkowska PhD, Department of Socio-Economic Geography, UG – Summing up of the process of image mapping
  • Roman Sebastyański –City LAB Curator in Gdansk – current state of the City Lab process

Discussion on concrete proposals offered at City LABS in the thematic areas: Memory, Art, Water and Public Spaces, Production, Greenery and Ecology, Dialogue

LIGHT LUNCH

PART 2: BEYOND BORDERS (session in English)

15.00 – 16.45 SETTING THE CONTEXT: MOW ART INTERVENTIONS IN GDANSK, 2019

Introduction by Mary Conlon (Ormston House, Limerick, Ireland): Curator of MoW Residency Programme

Artists:

  • ts beall (Govan, Glasgow, Scotland): Glass Water: Gifting flowers in the Imperial Shipyard An outline of current research and future questions
  • Iwona Zajac (Gdańsk, Poland): Podcast –Radio Solidarity anew
  • Desopina Stavridi (Greece), Ira Brami: Performance – As above, so below

16:00 – 16:45

Key-note by Prof. Katarzyna Kosmala (UWS) followed by a discussion

Coffee break

17:00 – 18:00 TOWARDS EAST

Introduction by Iwona Preis (Intercult, Stockholm),

“Connecting Georgia” project’s co-ordinator

CONTEMPORARY ART IN URBAN CONTEXT- BATUMI , GEORGIA

  • Zviad Eliziani,

Batumi International Art-house Film Festival’s Manager

  • Giorgi Gogiberidze,

Painter, director, photographer and screen writer

  • Irakli Dznealdze ,

Photographer, Odessa-Batumi Photo Days Festival (Fotograf)

CONTEMPORARY ART IN URBAN CONTEXT- MARIUPOL UKRAINE

  • Diana Berg

Activist, cultural manager

  • Kateryna Kostrova aka Burning Woman–

Live Act Musician

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18:00 -18:30

VR in Shipyard Gothenburg – presentation of films by Jonas Myrstrand (Stockholm) (Mow artist-resident)

 

Artists Residencies Gdansk – June & October 2019 (Trailer)