[spectre] 29sep.18.00: LIVE-stream from MAPMYTHS opening [art+communication]

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Right now starts live stream from Karosta, Liepaja, Latvia 
Opening of the exhibition: MAPPING AND SEWING TOGETHER MYTHOLOGIES - which is part of the art+communication - trans-cultural mapping festival in Riga.
Live stream, 29 sept 18.00-20.00

http://ozone.re-lab.net/live.ram


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MAPPING AND SEWING TOGETHER MYTHOLOGIES

'Mapping and sewing together mythologies' (referred to as 'Mapmyths' for short) is a collaborative project between Signe Pucena (LV) and Andrew Paterson (UK/FI) that began in Karosta - Latvia, July 2003, inspired by specific local acoustic and cultural environments, and documented with mobile media-capture devices: image, sound, GPS-trace, movie - from a person-centred position of narrative and experience.

In two physical locations, the 'Mapmyths' project explores cross-cultural (Russian-Latvian at Karosta, Latvia and Sami-Finnish-Russian at Inari and Ivalo, Lapland) and mono-culture (deeply local) experiences.  The initiative began with a cultural focus on the Orthodox Cathedral in Karosta, and an interest in the personal circumstances which made people to go there and why: the stories, personal narratives, mythologies and songs that people use to describe or show a sense of shared, common and collective memory to others, in relation to the environment in which they are situated.  The following journey to Lapland continued the search in a different landscape for similar cultural (Orthodox) values.

The project touches upon ethnographic fieldwork craft and situated narratives, exploring the potentials of emerging mobile and collaborative media practices. As part of the process of development, it aims to elaborate tangible representations and appropriate means of feedback interfaces to encourage poly-vocality, and present the project in the local environmental contexts where the media was gathered.

For the trans-cultural mapping theme of the Art+Communication Festival, the project organises a local event and internet radio broadcast in Karosta Liepaja on the 29th September, from 18.00 to 20.00:

http://ozone.re-lab.net/live.ram

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