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Cross-sectorial Acción Tipo de actividad Publishing, Intangible culture, Architecture, Audiovisual, Graphic arts, Photography, Digital arts, film, video Paises participantes SE,PL,LV
Fechas de inicio y fin Estado del proyecto finalized Subvención
Coordinador STIFTELSEN FARGFABRIKEN SE
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History is politics and politics is history – and we are all part of it, often in ways are not even aware of. And that is precisely the reason why we need to share it. Shared History is not about giving your own history up – but opening the act of history making to other perspectives, other voices than what is conventionally expected.Shared History is a cross-disciplinary project with the goal of critically connecting and artistically interpreting the different reactions on the refugee situation from 2015 which strongly affects, shapes and divides the European Union member states on a European and domestic level. With a Baltic Sea Region scope, the project’s creative research process approached topics such as history, narratives, integration and of course what happens when history is discussed and visualized as shared, thus becoming “Shared History”, in Sweden, Poland and Latvia.The artistic research and interpretation of Shared History was conducted through the intertwining of established artist in Sweden, Poland and Latvia with artists who recently arrived to the European Union as refugees. In order to ensure a critical perspective on history making, Shared History strategically cooperated with academic researchers on history, particularly from the University of Södertörn, Stockholm. Through various workshops, all involved partners and other project participants engaged in these critical reviews on history, identity, multi-cultural society,and Europe as a geographical, historical and conceptual body. The reviews also contributed to a critical mindset among all participants towards cultural programs with the goal of supporting integration in the EU. It became crucial to discuss what kind of patterns of identity a project like Shared History could generate, due to its ambition of connecting local artist with “refugee” artist. In order to avoid the reproduction of such rigid distinctions between groups of people the project and its implementing institutions had to investigate how to detach from those repetitive narratives on being a refugee. In a more practical way, it meant to support the artists to explore their artistic identity beyond the experience of being a refugee in Europe. But it also meant that the artist duos needed to put more effort in developing a new common ground. In addition, the artistic interpretations were deeply related to the local contexts of Sweden, Poland and Latvia. Three site specific exhibitions visualised the vast interpretations of history as shared; Shared History .The exhibitions took place at the contemporary art centre Färgfabriken in Stockholm, at the art museum Riga Bourse and at the St. John’s Church and Cultural Centre in Gdansk. In addition to the exhibitions, numerous public programs took place. These programs targeted experts, general public, refugee organisations, children and youth. All of them related to history – and the present – as shared, as well as the need to respect multicultural societies.Although Shared History had a distinctive Baltic Sea Region approach, it was finalized by connecting to the Balkan’s, sharing ideas and experiences and investigating different aspects and needs for approaching history as shared, thus generating shared experiences between the Baltic and Balkan region.For more information on Shared History , and to take part of essays, articles, poems, films and more, please visit www.sharedhistory.eu . |