Hvers Museum, Švenčionėliai Art School, Trafik-Vytautas Stakutis & Marija Tiurina

Museum of The Everyday

The creative workshops organized by the Trainspotting Art Residency combine anthropology, visual arts, and storytelling to create connections between people both within the local community and beyond. The creative workshops organized by educators from the Museum of Everyday Life (Iceland) invited students from the Švenčionėliai Art School to explore their immediate surroundings and local stories related to the town and the railway, as Švenčionėliai began to develop after the railway station was built.

The methods used by educators from Hvers museum helped to create an intimate dialogue between guest and host, visitor and local resident, and to reconcile global and local perspectives. In-depth interviews and qualitative methods were used to interview people, and later, after listening to and transcribing the recordings, a mosaic of stories and everyday objects was created, inviting visitors to look directly into the heart of the region and forge closer ties. The creative workshops also featured guest artists Marija Tiurina and Trafik (Vytautas Stakutis) both linked with an exceptionally wide range of expression in the field of visual arts, as they create illustrations using digital and traditional techniques, murals, watercolors, paintings, various objects, and conceptual works.

A week of co-creation workshops was followed by an exhibition of participants from Švenčionėliai Art School, artist presentations and introduction about the project to the local community by Hvers museum educators Vaida Bražiūnaitė and Bjorg Sveinbjornsdottir.