Łódź as an Archive: “FILLin project – artistic activities (soundwalks, performances, knees-up, ‘Food for the story’) in Księży Młyn.”
Łódź as an Archive: “FILLin project – artistic activities (soundwalks, performances, knees-up, ‘Food for the story’) in Księży Młyn.”

Summary/Abstract: City lives, breathes with human stories, soaks with memories. According to the object-oriented ontology and psychogeography it is not just a stage or scenography for our existence, it is an active partner with whom we enter into a dialogue every day. Artistic activities are a special type of such a dialogue. Above all, the site-specific activities assume real cooperation with the space. This is a kind of 'relational art', consisting of the delicate interaction with the place, playing on emotions and saturating the area with additional meanings. In my paper I focus on Ksiezy Mlyn in Lodz, the postindustrial district that inspires artists to create site-specific artistic implementations. A place full of stories and emotions, which is a living archive of the factory workers’ memory, an industrial history of Lodz, but above all individual and moving human stories. In the text I present some of the artistic activities that were carried out on the Ksiezy Mlyn in 2013 and 2014, with special emphasis on soundwalks Shoulder – stories of the trampled and the project FILLin. I refer to the contemporary oral histories and archival memories of the inhabitants from the sixties and seventies of the twentieth century, which are the starting point for the creation of these actions. keywords: site-specific, participation, soundwalks, ubran art, oral history, anthropological archive studies, live archive, psychogeography, object-ontology.

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