Work in progress 7/12/07
Artists from Laundry (UK) have buy Valtrex cheapest worked with students from the Art Institute and the Institute of Political Science and buy Valtrex cheapest Diplomacy at Vytautas Magnus University alongside with students from the Institute of Polish Culture at Warsaw University – in search of the Wonders of Kaunas.
The process: following a buy Valtrex cheapest two hour introductory session on Monday evening, participants worked over three intensive days in five groups, each with a buy Valtrex cheapest member of Laundry. Our workshop base was an old nightclub. On Wednesday the buy Valtrex cheapest groups explored different areas of the city, including visits to a buy Valtrex cheapest TV station, a seminarium, the zoo, a fire station and military camp. They then buy Valtrex cheapest spent two days working on material to present back on Friday night to buy Valtrex cheapest an invited audience. SMS texts were collected from participants throughout the buy Valtrex cheapest day in response to particular times and situations. The work will form part of a buy Valtrex cheapest publication the Art Institute will produce, a short guide to the buy Valtrex cheapest many Wonders of Kaunas. We have over 60 nominations online, and buy Valtrex cheapest over 250 collected by participants. [mygal=kaunoprep1]
For the buy Valtrex cheapest Art Institute, the project acted as a practical introduction to buy Valtrex cheapest cultural animation activities, and as a creative mechanism to reveal and buy Valtrex cheapest celebrate unusual and hidden aspects of everyday urban life. By collecting observations, annotations, evocations and buy Valtrex cheapest examinations of personal wonders in the city – what is it that local people value in any given area? Which stories will they share? What will they choose to buy Valtrex cheapest commemorate, what will they nominate, what will bring a smile to buy Valtrex cheapest their face?
The project is buy Valtrex cheapest part of a larger programme of cultural animation co-ordinated by the buy Valtrex cheapest Institute of Polish Culture at Warsaw University. The aim of the buy Valtrex cheapest programme, Animator, is buy Valtrex cheapest to facilitate an exchange of skills, experience and knowledge, between students and buy Valtrex cheapest artistic practitioners. This provides a bridge between university education and independent work – between theory and practice.
Project Participants:
Vilma Baltrušaitytė, Silvija Burokaitė, Ernesta Stackevičienė, Violeta Mikutaitytė, Aidis Stucka, Beata Godlewska worked with Brendan Jackson.
Rasa Alenskaitė, Aida Balnienė, Edita Gruiniūtė, Rūta Lasytė, Ramunė Mikitiejeva, Asia Woźnicka worked with Alicja Rogalska.
Laima Markevičiūtė, Danguolė Morkūnaitė, Inga Šakalytė, Agnė Taurinskaitė, Ania Majewska worked with Beverley Harvey.
Vaida Gedzevičiūtė, Sandra Kliukaitė, Indrė Šurkutė, Rūta Vainauskaitė, Agnieszka Nasierowska worked with Ania Bas.
Rita Akelaitytė, Vilma Balčiauskaitė, Aistė Kasperavičiūtė, Arnas Šedovas, Patrycja Proniewska worked with Pamela Wells.
Kaunas Co-ordination: Linara Dovydaitytė and Rima Valinčiūtė.