Over the past few weeks, partly due to my move from Greece, I have taken time and distance from the project (although I gathered some first reflections when I was in Lesvos).The video\film is not finished, although the screening and the feedbacks of the participants...
Right now, I feel that a sharpening of my work for the exam could to present these pictures that I drew in Lesvos, and not necesseraly make anything new. I am considering ways of maybe mixing the paintings I made with the pictures I took, in a digital way. I’m...
I have been thinking a lot about my project and the way I want to present it… I don’t have much time, but I want to revisit the project and refine it. I think most parts of it are completed -considering the limitations on my editing skills. I would also...
Project development: Net-work The last two weeks in Norway have been hectic and turbulent, so I have unfortunately not thought too much about the project. However, I was lucky that I got to take some notes on my reflections the last days at Metochi. In my text I want...
I have a memory of Life Jackets from my time in “videregående” (high school). I had a course called “Art, Design and Architecture” (translated) where we talked about art happening right now and taking inspiration or giving it thoughts so we would reflect...
I came to Lesvos in 2016, one year after the beginning of the so-called “refugee crisis”. Until then, I could not even point Lesvos on a map. Until I was 17-18 years old, I actually thought that this island was Chios. I knew its shape and location, but thought it was...
My relationship with Lesvos began almost simultaneously with the “refugee crisis”. In 2016, I was already living in Syros, working as a teacher, but I was going very often to Athens to meet my then boyfriend. There we met at the port of Piraeus at E1 and...
When I walk out my door, I don’t see signs of crisis. Nature seems to be thriving and my neighbors seem to be happy. I am dependent on others to gain more insight and information about the world. My neighbors share amazingly delicious food and heartbreaking stories....
When I signed up for this vourse, I had absolutely no idea of what Lesbos was. I had never heard of the island before. As i told friends where I was going, though, some of them would joke about Lesbos being a lesbian place assuming that island is where the word...
During my master’s thesis, on artistic creation related to migration, I dealt with migration-related themes and especially the imaginary conveyed by migration-related narratives. My focus shifted in particular from a construction of the self within institutional...
This is a ‘traveling library’ intended to be a place where many different useful (but not mandatory) references are collected; texts, artworks, films etc. Please expand and subsume your inputs under a theme (and create one if you wish) Theme 1: Literature...
This overview of course readings will be expanded as we go. For now it contains the readings from modules #1-3 Readings Module 1 part A: “Listening” in Roland, Barthes. In The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music, Art, and Representation, 245–60. Oxford:...
I believe that human beings heavily rely on their five senses—sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch—to experience the outside world. The ways we give life meaning are through our senses. For many people, sight is the primary means of exploration. Such...
During this module our group experienced a variety of different environments. In our trio I tried Katrine’s proposition and Gefsi tried mine. Katrine’s proposal asked us to go on a walk that we had done before and set a 10 minute timer and record what we...
I live in Mytilene, Lesvos since 2020. By that time I’d only heard stories about this island. When people would find out about my coming here, they would say how amazing it is, how many places there are to see, beautiful sandy beaches and green green mountains....
I daily read newspapers/online newspapers. Mass media is an important part of the information society. What I knew about Lesvos, before I signed up for the program, is that it is an island in Greece with a refugee- and medical crisis, and that there was a big fire in...
When I first got accepted into this summer course I knew quite littler about Lesvos. My first thought was the refugee crisis and its reputation in the news and media, especially the Moria camp. I also remember my teacher in 2016 travelled to Moria to help as a...
My apologies for this late post. I took a while to read and reseach. I knew nothing about Lesvos prior to getting accepted to this program. I had not heard of refugees there, political violence on the island, etc. I just knew it was an island. When I told friends...
(In)visible Last year I wrote my thesis about the relation between people and space. Instead of typical interviews I walked with some people while discussing and talking about the environment we were in. As I was preparing myself for these walks/interviews I walked a...
(Click play before reading) My home is like… This is video of our fish. The lovely sound in the background can only be heard when you are sitting right next to it and it is completely quiet around you. Then you can hear the fish snapping for air and making small...
