26 11 2009
– 06 12 2009

Narracje #1

NARRATIONS | Installations and Interventions in Public Space | Gdańsk | 26.11-06.12.2009

Opening hours: Sunday-Thursday | 5 – 10 p.m. and Friday-Saturday | 5 – 11 p.m.

The first edition of NARRACJE FESTIVAL will begin on 26 November in Gdańsk at 20.16. NARRACJE – Installations and Interventions in Public Space is an artistic project that treats the city as a story. This year’s events will be all about “reading” the city with architecture and light. The festival’s curator is Bettina Pelz, who specializes in international art projects in Public Space.The festival will take place in different parts of the city from 26 November till 6 December 2009. The artists that will participate in the project come from various countries such as Germany, Brasil, Australia or France. Other events of the festival are workshops for children, concerts, dj sets, meeting with artists and a lot more.NARRACJE is a project of Gdańsk’s battle to become a European Capital of Culture in 2016.

Organised by: Biuro Gdańsk i Metropolia – Europejska Stolica Kultury 2016 – kandydat / Gdańsk European Capital of Culture 2016- candidate Office Partners: Gdańska Galeria Miejska/Gdańsk City Gallery

Nadbałtyckie Centrum Kultury/Baltic Culture Centre

Urząd Miejski w Gdańsku / City of Gdańsk

Curator: Bettina Pelz

Producent and Coordinator: Natalia Cyrzan

Press Office: Sławomir Czarnecki (Gdańsk 2016), Katarzyna Szcześniak-Bartelik (Gdańska Galeria Miejska)

Graphic design: Maciej Salamon

FESTIVAL OPENING 26.11.2009

20.16 meeting at “Zieleniak”

20.30 visiting installations’ places

22.00 Vespa – the festival club-afterparty with the artists

 

PROGRAMME

The admission to all events is FREE!

Dorota Walentynowicz 72 x 56 projection on a building 26.11-29.11.2009, Zieleniak, Wały Piastowskie Str. 1

Kurt Laurenz Theinert (+ K. Topolski, M. Wojnicki) Visual Piano – Converter audio-visual performance 26.11 Thu, 8.16 p.m.,

Concert Hall of Music Academy, Łąkowa Street 1/227.11 Fri, 8 p.m.,

Centrum św. Jana/ St. John Centre, Świętojańska Str. 5028.11 Sat 10.30 p.m.,

Modelarnia, Shipyard (after Pechakuchy vol. 4) 29.11 Sun 7 p.m.,

Nadbałtyckie Centrum Kultury/ Baltic Kulture Centre, Korzenna Str. 33/35 Tom Groll + Bettina Pelz- Wniknięcie projection on a building 26.11-6.12.2009,

Katownia, Targ Węglowy, Jakub Nepraš -Trip video-installation 26.11 – 6.12,

ESK Gdańsk 2016 Office, Długi Targ 39/40 Lia Chaia -Minhoca? video-installation 26.11 – 6.12,

Tekstylia, corner of Pańska and Szeroka, Katarzyna Józefowicz – Posłowie/Epilogue installation 26.11 – 6.12,

Gdańska Galeria Miejska/ Gdańsk City Gallery, Piwna Str. 27/29 (the exhibition is shown in ggm1 from 21 November 2009 until 8 January 2010)

Günter Grass – Drawings on the walls projection in public spacearcades on Kaletnicza Str. (behind Neptun Cinema) and park on Szeroka Str. 26.11 – 6.12 with permission from Publishers: Steidl in Gottingen and Polnord Oskar in Gdańsk

Charly Nijensohn – El naufragio de los hombres video-installations 26.11 – 6.12, Gdańska Galeria Güntera Grassa (4g) / Günter Grass Gallery in Gdańsk, Szeroka and Grobla I Str. corner

Neringa Naujokaite – Name einfügen video-installation 26.11 – 6.12, Galeria-to-be, Grobla I Str. 1/2

Mary-Anne Kyriakou – Hug and Kissdigital media/performance 26.11 – 3.12,

Galeria-to-be Grobla I Str. 1/2 Konrad Zientara – Wieloplexikoń installation 26.11 – 6.12,

Motława river, Ołowianka, Sigrid Sandman – Prógprojection on a building 26.11 – 6.12,

Wyspa Spichrzów Dämmstoffmafia – Nomadic Store design 2.12 – 5.12,

Gdańska Galeria Güntera Grassa (4g) / Günter Grass Gallery in Gdańsk, Szeroka and Grobla I Str. corner

 

OTHER EVENTS

26.11-6.12.2009 „W innym świetle”/ “In different light” – the most important and famous Gdańsk buildings will be illuminated with a colorful light.

28.11 5- 7 p.m. „Steam” project, K. Łygońska, T. Pawluczuk, Latarniana Str. near Wybrzeże Theatre.

28.11 8.20 p.m. Pechakucha vol. 4, Modelarnia. application.

1.12. 7 p.m. concert: SEAMUS BLAKEUSA sax Jacek Kochan drums, Piotr Lemańczyk bass in Gdańska Galeria Güntera Grassa/Gunter Grass Gallery in Gdańsk, Szeroka and Grobla I corner

1.12. 8 p.m. BAABA concert, NCK, Ratusz Staromiejski, Korzenna Str. 33/353.12

8 p.m. AUTOKAR concert: M. Tokar, M. Sanders, M. Trzaska, W. Zimpel, Centrum św. Jana, Świętojańska Str. 50

4.12 5-7 p.m. Narrations International Window – presentation of international festivals of light, art and design in public space: Belgrade of Lights (RS), Fiabesque Peccioli (IT), GLOW Eindhoven (NL), LichtRouten Lüdenscheid (DE), Lighting Guerilla Ljubljana (SI), Luzboa Lisbon (PT), Smart Light Sydney (AU), Valgus Festival Tallinn (EE), NCK, Ratusz Staromiejski, Korzenna Str. 33/35

4.12.2009, 5.00 pm Contemporary Art in Public Space: Urban Dynamics and the Possibilities of Cultural Transformation International Forum with Bettina Pelz (Curator of “Narracje Gdansk”), Mary-Anne Kyriakou (Curator of “Smart Light Sydney”), Aleksandra Stratimirovic (Curator of “Belgrade of Lights”) curators of “Luzboa” Lisbon and “Skyway” Torun

6.12 5-7 p.m. Mobile Cinema Kino on Motława, film by K. Chomicz „Temat rzeka”, Długie Pobrzeże – in four places

 

WORKSHOPS

European Capital of Culture Gdańsk 2016 Office Długi Targ 39/40

28.11 12-5 p.m. „Chodź, pomaluj mi miasto” / „Come on and paint the town” (kids 6-8 years old) H. Martin, U. Wasielewska

29.11 12-5 p.m. „A4/4” ( young people 15-18 years old) H. Martin, U. Wasielewska

5-6.12 „Przezroczyste Miasto” / “Transparent city” (kids 8-12 years old) A. Chomicz

6.12 1-3 p.m. (in Vespa, Kołodziejska Str. 4) „Zrób coś z tym – lokalne dziennikarstwo obywatelskie” / “Do something- citizen journalism” workshop (15 years old and older) – P. Gulda Registration: tel. +48 503 762 936, email: zazu78@gmail.com (everyday after 2 p.m.)

VESPA – the festival club, Kołodziejska Str. 4

26.11 10 p.m. Festival opening party, music: Twój Stary Projekt

28-29.11 2-5 p.m. meetings with festival artists

3.12 1- p.m. Party: Good Boy Khris

5.12 9.p.m concert of TrupaTrupa, After Party Fake DjABOUT

 

Curator

Bettina Pelz

Since 2006 she’s been a curator of GLOW- International Light Forum in Art and Architecture in Eindhoven in Holland. In 2002-2006 she organised the Light Festival Lichtrouten w Ludenscheid in Germany. Pelz teaches at Fine Arts Academy in Bremen, Hildesheim University, Oldenburg University and Niederrhein Univeristy.

 

Artists:

Lia Chaia (Brasil)/VideoShe lives in Sao Paulo. In her works she shows relations between nature, human and urban space.Günter Grass (Germany)/Projection New graphics by the famous Noble Prize winner will be shown by Gdańsk City Gallery as light projections in public space.Mary-Anne Kyriakou (Australia) /Digital media light-designer, artist and composer, Mary-Anne Kyriakou in her works looks for various light and sound transformations. www.makproductions.com.au

 

Neringa Naujokaite (Lithuania)/Videoln her video-installations Neringa Naujokaite tries to show social relations and analyzes their impact on cultural, architectual and natural context. http://www.galerie-schwenk.de/k_naujokaite

 

Jakub Nepras (Czech Republic)/VideoIn his works Jakub Nepras shows the process of change that take place in human perception of the world, communication, social patterns and ethics during the technological development. http://jakubnepras.com

 

Charly Nijensohn (Argentina)/VideoAs a videographic Charly Nijensohn works on the ideas of human perception, and how it functions and changes. In his work he travels to such distant places as Atacama desert in Chile or Uppernavik Fiord in Greenland. http://www.charlynijensohn.org

 

Sigrid Sandmann (Germany)/ProjectionLanguage as a human archive and experience is a starting point for Sigrid Sandmann’s installations. They are usually placed in social and cultural context and architecture. Kurt Laurenz Theinert (Germany)/Digital mediaIn cooperation with computer software designers: Rolland Blach and Philip Rahlenbeck, Kurt Laurenz Theinert designed a visual piano conception. It is a keyboard that produce graphic picture instead of sound. http://www.theinert-lichtkunst.de

 

Dorota Walentynowicz/Projection A conceptual artist is interested in defining photography and light. She pays special attention to converting personal space into objective experience. The art is happening in personal relations, not in a hermetic private space. She often invites the recipients to take part in some kind of a game. She makes the rules, but the recipients response in interpreting the work is a main condition for the work’s existance.http://www.myspace.com/dorotawalentynowicz

 

Katarzyna Józefowicz/ InstallationThe artist in her works usually organizes the space by turning objects that are full of energy and anxiety into neutral, warm and cosy places. Creating these works is very time-consuming for the artist, but she treats the monotony of the process as if it was some kind of creative trance and meditation. Katarzyna Józefowicz’s exhibition titled „posłowie/epilogue” is shown in Gdańska Galeria Miejska/Gdańsk City Gallery from 21 November 2009 to 8 January 2010

 

Konrad Zientara/Installation An architect, designer, time and space traveller, Konrad Zientara is an artist connected with Kolonia Artystów/ Artists’ Collony in Gdańsk Shipyard. http://www.myspace.com/ksadhu

 

Dämmstoffmafia (Niemcy)/Design and Pattern Design„Dämmstoffmafia” is a grup of students of design, fine arts and digital media in Bremen. They show fragments of their conceptions and works in temporary space. http://www.myspace.com/daemmstoffmafia

 

Low Budget | Installation and DesignThey call themselves “crew”. They don’t follow strict rules, but have the same goal -being creative and having fun. They will present an open project with the citizens’ participation and they will organise workshops for children. http://www.lowbudget.pl