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 Art Line – Flagship project in the EU!
The European commission has now appointed Art Line a Flagship project in the EU. This is very rare, not least since Art Line is a cultural project. This is also the first time that a cultural project achieves this status in the South Baltic Cross-Border programme.
Art Line is now a part of the Action Plan for the Baltic Sea Strategy and is in the new Priority Area Culture in the EU Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region. (EUSBSR The European Union Strategy for the Baltic Sea Region, the first macro-regional strategy in Europe)
(Picture) Vassilen Iotzov (left) at the Gdansk office for the South Baltic Cross-Border Progamme broke the good news to Art Line's Annika Thelin, Torun Ekstrand, project manager, and Ingemar Lönnbom.
Through Art Line culture has been acknowledged as an important part of the developement power in the region.. Art Line is one of six Flagships projects in the South Baltic Cross-Border programme.
Art Line will now serve as a role model for coming culture co-operation in other regions in Europe.
Criterias that have been taken into consideration in the nomination process are:
- partnerships are based on mutual learning.
- how cooperation has made the results stronger.
- that the results achieved are applicable/of interest beyond the specific local and national context.
- the project focuses on ”life after the end of the project” aspects.
Links to more information:
Information in English, Flagship projects.
Action plan, word document.
 Three projects wins Hydro Active City
The contest "Hydro active city", organized by the Baltic Sea Cultural Centre within the framework of the Art Line project has received 47 applications from Poland, Sweden, Germany, Lithuania, Russia and Denmark. Three projects has been chosen and will be realized later this year.
(Picture) One of the winning project is Piotr Wyrzykowski's Water Memory. This is one of the sketches which now will become reality.
Hydro active city was launched as an international contest searching for art projects to be presented in the public space. In order to be considered by the jury the art works had to use digital media technologies in a creative approach to public space. Interactive art works involving people in the Baltic countries were regarded as especially interesting by the jury.
The jury, Anna Zalewska-Andruszkiewicz (PL), Jacob Lillemose (DEN), Ryszard W. Kluszczyński (PL) and Peter Hagdahl (SE) chose three equally rated, winning projects which will be realized and exhibited in Gdansk this spring (2013): "Little Ice Age" by Olga Zofia Warbida & Mariusz Samól (Poland), "Message in a bottle" by Maciej Wojnicki (Poland), "Water Memory" by Piotr Wyrzykowski (Poland).
The jury panel also decided to give a honorary mention to the project "Post-Fishing Post" by Justinas Gaigalas and Rytis Urbanskas (Lithuania) and recommended it for production should the Art Line project’s budget permit.
Links to more information:
The jury verdict
More information about the contest
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Telling the Baltic opens in Kalingrad
Telling the Baltic, the collaborative storytelling project within the frame of the Art Line project, opens in Kaliningrad on April 19.
This is the fourth time the joint exhibition will be presented and it is staged in a totally different manner than the earlier showings in Karlskrona, Gdansk and Rostock. In Kaliningrad Telling the Baltic will be relocated to the Museum of the Ocean and in the Kronprinztower (picture).
 The Baltic Sea has many stories to “tell,” and it can reveal its narratives in countless forms. Stories have been collected from those who travel the sea for holiday or for work. The stories have been gathered in a public cross-border archive, and form the raw materials for artists who use them as inspiration when creating art-works. These art-works are part of the exhibition touring the South Baltic region.
The opening was held at Blekinge Museum, Karlskrona June 9, 2012. It has also been seen at the CCA Laznia, Gdansk and in Kunsthalle Rostock, Rostock, and now it is Kaliningrad’s turn. The exhibition will lastly be seen by thousands of travellers on board the ferry Stena Line Vision June – July 2013.
New information officer
As from March 1, Ingemar Lönnbom is new information officer at Art Line.
Ingemar Lönnbom has been working as a journalist in different media and with public information for more than 30 years. (See also picture in this newsletter's top story.)
Contact:
ingemar.lonnbom@artline-southbaltic.eu
Phone +46-708-310392
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Lead partner: Blekinge museum. Partners: Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Kunsthalle Rostock, Art Centre Gallery EL, Gdańsk City