Workshop in Writing (hi)stories from archives / Poetic collaging

If everything has already been written, then we are going to overwrite all that.

Archive is like an alphabet in a language, raw material from which we can create whole worlds. Only in a context, accompanied by dozens of other items does a document start to make sense, to belong, to talk to us.

This Sunday we will create our own contexts and our own senses out of Kanuti Gildi SAAL’s archives. We will collage personal poems, stories, essays out of artists’ and curators’ texts written during the past 20 years.

It’s a gamble with ownership, history, and memory. It’s a resistance to individualistic originality.

Come to the Cellar Hall (Pühavaimu, 5, Tallinn) on 25 September at 12:00. Because of the limited spaces, please register your visit.

Workshop’s facilitator : Bohdana Korohod, current artist in residence in the Cellar Hall of Kanuti Gildi SAAL
Supported by: Cultural Endowment of Estonia
Duration: aproximately 2 hours
In English

Free, registration based!

P.S. Created collages would be used in the final residency showing (30 September) upon their creators’ agreement, either under their names, made-up identities or anonymously. It will be possible to get the collages back after the showing or at any other time if the creator changes their mind which is totally okay.