12/10/2023
// Merging Memoryscapes //
// 📍Kiosk, Rynek Podgórski 8
// Opening: Sat 14.10 18:30
// Closing: Fri 20.10 18:30
// 🗓️On View: 14-20 October, 2023
🎞️Memoryscapes audio/visual piece:
Visuals: Joanna Pottle
Sound: Jeremy Wexler, PhD
✨You are warmly invited to visit and contribute to “Merging Memoryscapes” – an experimental, site-specific art installation project that incorporates an audio/visual piece and an additive collaborative installation piece within the Kiosk space on the Rynek Podgórski, dedicated to a point of contact for creativity and Kraków’s public space — with a mission to support the arts and walks.
💡Over the course #
of a week, the artist and visitors will be re-negotiating, re-appropriating, interpreting, identifying, and reconfiguring the piece through an interactive responsive process prompted by the artist. Visitors are invited to respond to a ‘postcard’ with a still-image depiction from the audio/visual piece ‘MEMORYSCAPES’ (by Joanna Pottle and Jeremy Wexler, PhD) with provided reflective questions.
📝In-person visitors will be able to receive a physical postcard to respond to, which will be added to the installation piece throughout the duration of the project’s showing at the Kiosk. For those who would like to contribute, but are not local, they will be able to do some virtually (more information to be announced upon the commencement of the exhibition–stay tuned).
🗾This exhibition is part of an ongoing, interdisciplinary series of projects investigating the theme of 'memoryscapes.' The concept of “memoryscapes" refers to spatial representations of socially-shared memory, the action of listening to located oral accounts as a way to map individual and collective stories, and a way to trace both the past and the present cultural landscape. When crafting the Migrating Memoryscapes project, our goal was to thread these themes with the experiences of migration in the context of Poland’s multicultural communities through art and discussion workshops that also weave in the broader topics of cultural heritage, collective memory, and personal identity.
