Narrations #4 | Art Thou Gone, Beloved Ghost? | Gdansk Shipyard + Main City | 15-18.11.2012
The 4th edition of the Festival will present large scale projections located at the intersection of performance, politics, illusion and implicit memories of this city’s architecture. They are harmonized in this effort: neither denying nor dwelling upon the city’s long and turbulent past, but employing its physical structures as theatrical stages to reflect and re-imagine. Beyond simple projection surfaces, each building and site will be employed as an active partner – feeding back into the light to forge a vivid exchange with the haunting, but no less holistic ghosts of Gdansk’s constitution. Art thou gone, beloved ghost? seeks to mine, explore and activate Gdansk’s hallucinatory relationship with its ancestors – both real and imagined.
The city’s architecture is tapped as an archive, partner and lens as this kaleidoscopic séance unfolds across the buildings, churches, waterways, and streets that have lived, observed and recorded the city’s history. As relics of a country’s life, these sites reverberate as landmarks within a historical trajectory marked (some would say marred) by the haunting presence of “the other.”
The artists include:
Carlos Amorales, Dark Mirror (Mexico)
Jeremy Blake, Winchester (USA)
Aline Bouvy & John Gillis, Venusia (Belgium)
Oskar Dawicki, Wisielec / Hangman and Drzewo wiadomości / Tree of Knowledge (Poland)
Nathalie Djurberg, Deceiving Looks (Sweden)
Mounir Fatmi, Forget and The Silence of St. Peter Martyr (Marocco/France)
Hanna von Goeler, The Shadows Cast by Ordinary Objects (Germany/USA)
Claire Harvey, Then and after (UK/Holland)
Christian Jankowski, Angels of Revenge. Butcher (Germany)
Gabriel Lester, A Man of Action (Belgium/Holland)
Robin Rhode, Kid Candle and Piano Chair (South Africa)
Michal Rovner, More and Order (Israel)
Hiraki Sawa, Migration (Japan)
Roman Signer, Heufieber (Switzerland)
Guido van der Werve, Nummer Acht: Everything is going to be alright (Holland)
Open call selection of projects:
Agnieszka Baaske, Mum / Mamo
Jago VJ & PLEQ, Inside_, av performance
Anna Krolikiewicz, Stół / Table
Michał Łagowski, Podejdź bliżej / Come closer
Patrycja Orzechowska, Kiedy rozum śpi budzą się demony. Nokturn / The sleep of reason brings forth monsters. Nokturn
Natalia Osuch, Dominik Rudasz, Bar-do
Piotr Wyrzykowski, Jak wychować władcę? / How to educate a ruler?
Iwona Zając, Krzysztof Topolski, Duchy / Ghosts
A special project on the Gdansk Shipyard:
16-17 November, 5:00-12:00 pm
1 Doki Street, Building175 A, Telephone Exchange, shipyard
Telephone Exchange/ former Artists Colony, I am a tourist here myself / Sam nie jestem stąd
Artists taking part in the project:
Michał Andrysiak, Kuba Bielawski, Bogna Burska, Krzysztof Leon Dziemaszkiewicz, Dickie Dreams Soundsystem (Krystian Wołowski+M.Bunio.S), Adam Hryniewicki, Piotr Jahołkowski, Radek Kobus (Decay Sound), Tomasz Kopcewicz, Lipali, Honorata Martin, NAVIGATORGONG (Robert Usewicz+Joanna Jordan), Agata Nowosielska, Anna Orbaczewska, PGR ART (Robotnik Sztuki Mikołaj Robert Jurkowski, Robotnik Sztuki Sylwester Gałuszka), Julia Porańska, Cicho, cicho project (Olimpia Dębska, Ola Fijałkowska, Emilka Garska, Kama Kania, Karolina Piątkiewicz, Magda Małyjasiak, Adam Nagórski, Karolina Szambelan, Iwona Zając),projekt chlebalin/czerkas/łuniewicz, Queen Bitch (vc kristi), Maja Ratyńska, Maciej Salamon,snake / estern front soundNOsystem, Anna Steller, Studio à Propos, Michał Szlaga, Artur Trzciński, Tomasz Wierzchowski, Jolanta Woszczenko, Sebastian Woźniak, Konrad Zientara, Alina Żemojdzin
PROGRAMME
15/11 THURSDAY
5.00 – 12.00 pm //installation opening hours
6.00 pm //NARRACJE official opening with the artists and curator Steven Matijcio, at the courtyard of Main Town Hall, 47 Długa Str (entrance through Palowa Restaurant)
6.30, 7.00, 7.30, 8.00 pm //guided tours (start from Palowa Restaurant, 47 Długa Str, No1 on the map), chosen installations, aprox. 120 minutes.
9.00 pm //concert: Ballady i Romanse, DJ Lutto Lento / festival club, 49a Hall, shipyard
16/11 FRIDAY
5.00 – 12.00 pm //installation opening hours
5.00 – 12.00 pm //EXCHANGE / former Artist’s Colony, I am a tourist here myself, building 175 A, shipyard
5.00 – 7.00 pm //debate: Res Publica Nowa + City Culture Institute, My MIĘDZYMIEŚCIE, with: Artur Celiński, Grzegorz Piątek, Kacper Pobłocki, Jacek Dominiczak, 39/40 Długi Targ Str
7.30 pm //opening: Niklas Goldbach, Cykle, 4g, 34 Szeroka str and Gdansk City Gallery 1, 27 Piwna str
8.00 pm //opening: Sokrates at Duchamp’s, IS Wyspa, shipyard
9.00 pm //concert: Robert Piernikowski, Kristen / festival club, 49a Hall, shipyard
17/11 SATURDAY
12:00 – 1.00 pm //City lights – workshops for children between 5 and 8, lead by Ole!Collective, 39/40 Długi Targ str
3.00 – 5.00 pm //Dance in a box – workshops for cildren between 6 and 12, lead by Magda Reczyńska, Patrycja Świderska, 39/40 Długi Targ str
5.00 – 12.00 pm //installation opening hours
5.00 – 12.00 pm //EXCHANGE/ former Artist’s Colony, I am a tourist here myself, building 175 A, shipyard
5.00 pm //Meeting with artist Niklas Goldbach, 4g, 34 Szeroka str
10.00 pm // av performance: Jago VJ + music: Pleq, concert: Square Pirate / festival club, 49a Hall, shipyard
18/11 SUNDAY
12:00-1.30 pm //City lights – workshops for children between 9 and 12, lead by Ole!Collective, 39/40 Długi Targ str
5.00 – 12.00 pm //installation opening hours
5.00 pm //concert: Anna Nova, 4g, 34 Szeroka str
TIMETABLE FOR NARRACJE GUIDED TOURS
Tours guided by the NARRACJE curator – Steven Matijcio
15/11 Thursday 7.00 pm //Combined tour – Narracje Old Town + Shipyard, chosen installations (120 minutes)
16/11, Friday – 17/11, Saturday 6.00 pm //Old Town (120 minutes), starts from Main City Hall, entrance throug Palowa Restaurant, Długa 47 str 9.00 pm //Shipyard (120 minutes), starts from the Historical Gate to the Shipyard, next to the Three Crosses statue, Doki 1 str
18/11, Sunday 8.00 pm //Combined tour – Narracje Old Town + Shipyard, chosen installations (120 minutes), starts from Main City Hall, entrance throug Palowa Restaurant, Długa 47 str
Guided tours:
15/11 Thursday 6.30, 7.00, 7.30, 8.00 pm //Combined tour – Narracje Old Town + Shipyard, chosen installations (120 minutes), starts from Main City Hall, entrance throug Palowa Restaurant, Długa 47 str
16/17 Friday – 18/11 Sunday 5.00, 6.00, 7.00, 8.00 pm //Old Town (120 minutes), starts from Main City Hall, entrance throug Palowa Restaurant, Długa 47 str 7.00, 8.00, 9.00, 10.00 pm //Shipyard (120 min), starts from the Historical Gate to the Shipyard, next to the Three Crosses statue, Doki 1 str
Wandering phantasmagorias – tours for children and parents, different route every day, no need to enroll 16/11 Friday: 6:00, 8:00 pm 17/11 Saturday: 6:00, 8:00, 10:00 pm 18/11 Sunday: 6:00, 8:00 pm
duration: 60 min start: Main Town Hall, entrance next to the Palowa restaurant, ul. Długa 47 organizers: Ole! Collective more information: przewodnicy@narracje.eu
By night Gdańsk will become a scenery for shadows and lights cast by magic lanterns. A group of ghosts – animators, parents and children will wander the streets of the Old and the Young City, wrapped in dusk. With Lanterna Magica, torches and lanterns in hand, they will illuminate the path before them and before the citizens of Gdańsk. This joint expedition through this year’s Narracje is a great excuse to remind the participants about the history of the city, familiarize them with contemporary art and tell new, remarkable stories. Each day, the participants may take a different route, visiting selected locations of NARRACJE – each filled with puzzles, games and happenings. In less than an hour we will paint a “luminous veduta”, make the devil run for the hills and try to “encipher” the stars. All parents and children who don’t like to sleep between 6 p.m. and 10 p.m. – come and join us on our magical tour!
Festival Club: 49a Hall, shipyard, Cafe Lamus + Avocado Vegan Catering,
Opening hours: 15-17/11 from 7.00 to 12.00
15/11 Thursday, 21.00: concert Ballady i Romanse, DJ Lutto Lento
16/11 Friday, 21.00: concert, Robert Piernikowski, Kristen
17/11 Saturday, 22.00: av performance, Jago VJ + music: Pleq, concert Square Pirate
