Wyspa Institute of Art,Gdansk shipyard, Poland
29.5.-30.9.11
The other part of the Alternativa exhibition is in the building of Wyspa Institute of Art in the Gdansk Shipyard. The focus is mainly on video, with documentation and impressions from exotic and different cultures.
Wyspa Institute of Art
Inside Wyspa Institute of Art - several layers of history
Hüseyin Karakaya - Stigma 1 'Pohle'
Installation made from garbage from an unknown, maybe a Polish student of medicine in Mönchengladbach, Germany. The half-filled fridge, the glossy magazines and the notebooks of biology and chemistry, in Polish language are familiar yet still unfamiliar.
Mattias Olofsson - Big Stina Is Learning Rinkeby Swedish
A man dressed up as a Sami girl talks to specialists about a new language that is emerging in Sweden. Is he making fun of the specialists with his dress, or does he make fun of us, the viewers? Or is the point that the new emerging urban culture as exotic as the traditional Sami culture?
