We are pleased to invite you on September 22 to the presentation of the results of the residency “Not made of stone, but of ether/Не з каменю, а з ефіру – historical imprints, multiple languages”, which took place at the Jam Factory Art Center in September 2024.
Artist Irène Mélix will present the film Not Made of Stone, but of Ether (24 min), created while working with the archives of the Center for Urban History.
What is this artwork about?
Lviv is a city on rivers, streams and springs. A city on the European watershed. The film Not of Stone, but of Ether presents Lviv as a body whose main artery pulsates invisibly beneath its streets.
Based on photographs from the Center for Urban History Archive, historical drawn imprints have been created which in the film are animated as vivid fragments of a multilingual, multi-perspectival histories. Literary references to the city of Lviv appear in seven languages, woven into a dense text that argues for including the invisible within historical perception. The artist Irène Mélix appears in the soundtrack as a learner – a voice approaching some of the languages spoken in Lviv during the last century, inscribing an open, searching gesture into the historical narration.
How can history be told in its complexity and polyphony?
What is heard, seen, imagined?
How can imperial grammars, inscribed in the languages themselves and perpetuated in historiographies, be deconstructed?
After the screening, there will be a discussion with Adam Erdmann, who is currently in residence at the Jam Factory Art Center.
Event details
September 22, 19:00
Jam Factory Art Center, 124 B.Khmelnytskoho Street, Auditorium Hall
Admission is free with registration.
Registration____
The residency “Exploring Echos: Multiple voices, parallel stories” 2024 unites five institutions – Jam Factory Art Center and Center for Urban History (UA), HELLERAU – Euopean Centre for the Arts (GER), WRO Art Center (POL) and Pochen (GER). The project is co-organized by the WRO Art Center and carried out with the support of the City of Wroclaw | wroclaw.pl