Grzegorz Klaman’s A Subjective Bus Lin runs in Genk, Belgium

Genk:
30 May – 30 September 2012

This summer, FLACC in Genk and the Wyspa Institute of Art in Gdansk come together as partners for A SUBJECTIVE BUS LINE, a project by the visual artist Grzegorz Klaman. A SUBJECTIVE BUS LINE in the Belgian former mining city of Genk will run during Manifesta9. Simultaneously, a Line will be held on the grounds of the former Gdansk Shipyard in Poland during Alternativa. Both the Genk mining sites and Gdansk Shipyard are undergoing transformation and are reservoirs of collective and individual memory. Gdansk Shipyard is carrying the legacy of the Solidarnosc Movement, while the Limburg mines have a complex history involving migrant workers and a profound influence on the city and surrounding landscape. Their official history is visualised in the shape of diverse forms of commemoration. The Line is an answer to the urgency to embrace hidden voices that have never become a central narrative. The project gives a unique insight into the premises of these historically loaded industrial sites.

The bus tour starts at the former mine building of Waterschei, now the Manifesta 9 venue, and takes 2 hours. The tour includes several important mine sites, such as the Cités (residential garden city), slag heaps and industrial sites. The tours in Genk can be booked in the following languages: English, Flemish, Polish and Slovenian.
http://www.flacc.info/en

A Subjective Bus Line (Genk) is a project by Grzegorz Klaman and FLACC and partnered by Het Vervolg Vzw / Coal Face (BE), Wyspa Institute of Art in Gdansk (PL) in conjunction with Alternativa International Visual Arts Festival in Gdansk and with support of Meta VZW. Meta is the Flemish heritage organisation for vintage tramcars and buses.

One of Gdańsk’s greatest attractions – the shipyard – is inaccessible and surrounded by a wall. The Subjective Bus Line opens it up and transforms it into public space. See the original workplace of Lech Wałęsa, the historical gates on Roads to Freedom Exhibition, historic BHP (Labour Safety and Hygiene) Room as well as Imperial Shipyard, shipwayes, U-boots Workshop and the spot where Wałęsa jumped over the shipyard’s wall! Listen to a subjective story of this special place told by the witnesses of the legendary events – our Guides (former Shipyard workers)

Visit the exhibitions of the international visual arts festival ALTERNATIVA, Labour & Leisure in a new amazing exhibition space – Hall 90B and Estrangement in the building of Wyspa Institute of Art.

You are welcome to visit the Info Point of the Subjective Bus Line ahead of the Shipyard’s Historical Gate on Monument to The Fallen Shipyard Workers, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. from Tuesday till Sunday, or call us at: +48 512 055 176 / sla@wyspa.art.pl