Exploratory trip Close Stranger.

35 art and culture professionalists from Poland, Russia and Lithuania (curators, visual and sound artists, writers, journalists etc.) will go together from Gdańsk via Kalingrad to Klajpeda visiting important historical and cultural sights, significant from the point of view of the regional identity, looking for markers specific for the territories, scanning cultural and social landscapes, collecting images and ideas for the sake of a publication “Art-Guide: Gdańsk – Kaliningrad – Klajpeda” to be published in 2014.

Participants from Russia:

 

1/ Ivan Chechot, St. Petersburg – historian, leader of Russian part of the art expedition and editor of Russian part of Art-Guide

2/ Elena Tsvetaeva – curator of Russian part of art expedition, artist

3/ Yulia Bardoun – curator of Russian part of art expedition, essayist

4/ Anna Karpenko – sociologist, essayist

5/ Danil Akimov – audio-artist

6/ Galina Kuzmin – employee of NCCA Kaliningrad

7/ Vladimir Vlasov – historian, essayist

8/ Konstantin Trashchenkov – artist, essayis

9/ Evgenia Romanova – journalist

10/ Siergiei Mihailov – writer, translator

11/ Aglaia Chechot, St. Petersbourg – editor, essayist,  video documentator of the art expedition

12/ Vladislav Efimov, Moscow – photographer

13/ Anna Tolstova, Moscow – journalist, curator, essayist

14/ Bartfield Boris Nihimovich – writer

15/ Hervig Heller (Austria) – slavist, critic, journalist

 

Participants from Lithuania:

 

1/ Skaistė Kazarauskaitė – trip coordinator

2/ Valiukas Mindaugas – musician, essayist

3/ Gitana Gugevičiūtė-Valiukienė – theatre critic, essayist

4/ Viktorija Dambrauskaitė – puppet theatre scenarist

5/ Rolandas Marčius – painter-artist

6/ Ričardas Milukas – painter-artist

7/ Linas Dalius – essayist

8/ Audrius Jankauskas – designer

9/ Danguolė Ruškienė –  art critic

10/ Lina Praudzinskaitė – photographer

 

Participants from Poland:

 

1/ Agnieszka Wołodźko – artist, curator, essayist, trip coordinator

2/ Agata Nowosielska - artist, curator, essayist

3/ Andrzej Ekwiński, Stockholm – art philosopher

4/ Marcin Krasny – art critic, curator

5/ Wiktor Ciesielski – experimental musician

6/ Wojciech Kozłowski – director of the Beaurau of Art Exhibitions in Zielona Góra, curator

7/ Katarzyna Szczepańska – activist of the Congress of Municipal Movements, councillor of the Council of the district Gdansk-Wrzeszcz Górny

8/ Jakub Szczepański – historian of architecture, lecturer at the Faculty of Architecture, Gdańsk University of Technology

9/ Barbara Piórkowska – writer

10/ Marta Wróblewska – curator, essayist

11/ Giedymin Jabłoński – artist, curator, educator

12/ Kamila Wielebska – curator, art critic, essayist