Date: 18th - 24th July 2005

Organizers of the project: Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdańsk (curators: Agnieszka Wołodźko, Krzysztof Topolski) and National Centre for Contemporary Art, Kaliningrad (curators: Elena Tsvetaeva, Sergey Sazonov, Danil Akimov)
description: The "Baltic Club" is an international working team consisting of scientists from various fields of the humanities (historians, art historians, anthropologists, sociologists etc.), artists and art curators who will run the trans-border research on the East Prussia phenomena - the territory that was culturally homogeneous before and is now divided by frontiers and inhabited by culturally non-rooted settlers. Both in Poland and in Russia there is a lack of common knowledge about the progress of research on the historical and cultural legacy of East Prussia, or about the institutions responsible for this and any archive material.
date: 18th - 24th July 2005

21^st July 2005, 6:00 p.m.

Baltic Club opening symposium as part of the “Baltic Corridor” project.

 

The following lectures will be given during the symposium:

Agnieszka Wołodźko (Centre for Contemporary Art “Laznia”) “Is Heimat absolutely essential for life?”

Elena Tsvetaeva (National Centre for Contemporary Art in Kaliningrad) – presentation of academic-artistic works concerned with Kaliningrad and former East Prussia organised by the National Centre for Contemporary Art in Kaliningrad. Elena Tsvetaeva will also present the artistic projects created to commemorate the 750^th anniversary of granting city status to Kaliningrad.

Dr Bożena Domagała (The Wojciech Kętrzyński Centre for Scientific Research in Olsztyn) – “The historical and sociological determinants of identity”.

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