Karina Marusinska - Grand Canyon of Art. Landscape of the Mine

Animation of Culture

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Organizers:

Karina Marusinska (AFA Wroclaw), Aleksandra Idziak (SGGW Warsaw)

Deadline:

20^th to 22^nd of April 2006

Action place:

Terrain of BOT Brown Coal Mine ‘Belchatow’ – the viewpoint of open-pit mine, desolated households in Debina village.

Participants:

Warsaw Agricultural University (Landscape Architecture Department), AFA Wroclaw, AFA Lodz, AFA Cracow, PWSFiT Lodz, University of Zielona Gora – Institute of Art, Jan Kochanowski University, Academy of Silesia, Association of Photography Admirers in Belchatow (c. 100 students/participants)

Idea/destination/achieved effect: Belchatow Open-pit Mine – Grand Canyon of Art

Perception of the space of open-pit mine with the aid of art as the new view on industrial, seemingly technically and culturally dead space – identification of landscape (seeking Genius Loci of mine space) and an attempt of modelling it by action; Art as a polemic with strict technique of reclamation; Co-creation of unique, new ‘kraj-obraz’ (Polish: krajobraz – landscape; kraj – country/land; obraz – picture; kraj-obraz – the picture of the country/land) of the mine as an alive source of inspiration for young artist and landscape architect – land/picture readers and land/picture planners/creators; The landscape of mine – viewpoint of the open-pit and desolated village Debina as new, open gallery spaces for unconventional modern art – alternative strategy of development for BOT KWB Belchatow S.A terrains and the whole region.

Mine workshops for us – initiators:

From the view of further landscape architect and artist modelling the land of the Belchatow mine is a remarkable challenge. In our collaborative work using art in landscape reading and planning as a medium, a symbol itself completes the craft of management and arrangement of the open-pit mine in Belchatow, ‘cause the art may show its new energy, not only the one gathered from coal…’
Case Study: Aleksandra Idziak-Brown