Logographers. Legend of the Lune.

The title of the project refers to the Greek Logographers. They were the first chroniclers who, in ancient Greece, collected stories and legends from far-away lands and used them to build narratives. Their work blended documented history with fictional accounts, and perpetuated the oral storytelling tradition of the local communities they visited.  Their journeys served as a basis for creating literary works that included myths, legends, and historical facts alike, to be passed down through generations.  Logographers told their stories, and in doing so started to raise awareness of the world at large, and offered new perspectives on the known world.  The underlying concept of our project is the idea of meeting, conversation, cooperation, and above all the exchange of views concerning contemporary visual arts.  The Greek logographers were an inspiration for the project. The participating artists, each arriving from a different part of Europe, brought with them subjective impressions, experiences, of the places they have visited in their lives. They then set out to share them with the people they met here in Lancaster and other participants of the project. During their artistic stay in Lancaster the artists used the language and tools of contemporary visual arts to create new legends and stories about the city and its river.  One of the most important elements of their visit in Lancaster was meeting with the local community and their interaction with people from this region.  Artworks stemming from ideas of journeys, place & belonging, legend, fact & fiction, past & present, dialogue, collective memories, historical amnesia.  The artists communicated using video arts, audio arts, photography, installations, performances, drawings, creating chronicles in continuous reference to the work of the Greek logographers.

Germany - Nina Olczak, Netherlands - Gunter Gruben, Poland - Jowita Lis, Magda Wolnicka, France - Leo Burtin, England- Rhea Storr, Hungary - Lehel Lajos, Romania- Lehel Lajos

Project conceived alongside Galleria Sztuki Wspolczesnej in Opole, Poland.