A few months ago I had in mind to create a calendar with landscape photographs I’ve taken throughout 2024 but my work schedule made it impossible to see the project come to light. It would be too late to do it now in time for 2025 but here is the selection I had in mind. Feel free to add your own photograph and send it in return instead of a Christmas or a New Year card. Maybe a photograph that represents your 2024 or your hope for 2025.
Have a Happy Winter Season! La Multi Ani!
Maria Stadnicka
Decide that the earliest memory is
a feeling. Someone passed it onto us
by accident. It still matters.
disOrder is a new project in collaboration with Andrew Morrison Books and produced by Kerbstone Press. It is an artist book in a box, and it is coming out at the Bristol Artist’s Book Event (B.A.B.E.) this weekend. The event will take place at the Bower Ashton Gallery, University of the West of England, 29-30 June, 11am – 5pm. The event is free and there will be hundreds of other books to see if you are in the neighbourhood. You can find more information here.
© Maria Stadnicka, June 2024.
“Memory HouseA’ book and art exhibition at the Lansdown Art Gallery, Stroud, Gloucestershire.
21 – 26 February 2024 open every day 9am – 5pm / Extended open day Wednesday 21st February 9am – 8pm.
We often think about time as being a social concept, anchored in a palpable present, routing between the past and the future but nevertheless a construct that makes sense once we engage, in perpetuity, with our human experiences. In fact, what is infinite and constantly subject to our imagination and our creative processes is the past; the memories stored, processed and shared, that integrate and ground our being.
Memory House is an art collaboration searching to explore the collective aspect of memory that leads to social integration and reveals human commonalities beyond ethnicity, background or political colour. Memory House is a place where different generations and cultures reveal the archetypal aspects of our humanity.
Publisher: Kerbstone Press
© Maria Stadnicka, February 2024
prayer for rechargeable batteries
and fastness and coffee mornings
for raffle tickets and crisp stereo sound
for power banks and batch cooking
prayer for beer-tapas at my local pub
and for average speed limits
for goodenoughness at school reunions
and metastatic anonymity online
prayer for microphones and bespoke
for three-in-one and all other numerals
for Karen from Home Deliveries
and her quick recovery from sick leave
prayer for perhaps and passwords
for stopping mid-sentence and for
everything else that is temporary
apart from betrayal
prayer for scissors and for the frontal cortex
and for a long-distance relationship
with my past life
© Maria Stadnicka, February 2024
We often think about time as being a social concept, anchored in a palpable present, routing between the past and the future but nevertheless a construct that makes sense once we engage, in perpetuity, with our human experiences. In fact, what is infinite and constantly subject to our imagination and our creative processes is the past; the memories stored, processed and shared, that integrate and ground our being.
Memory House is an art collaboration searching to explore the collective aspect of memory that leads to social integration and reveals human commonalities beyond ethnicity, background or political colour. Memory House is a place where different generations and cultures reveal the archetypal aspects of our humanity.
Memory House includes new work by the artist Mark Mawer, printing and art book produced by the artist Andrew Morrison and writing by the poet and sociologist Maria Stadnicka whose research is focused on transgenerational transmissions.
Publisher: Kerbstone Press
© Maria Stadnicka, January 2024
We often think about time as being a social concept, anchored in a palpable present, routing between the past and the future but nevertheless a construct that makes sense once we engage, in perpetuity, with our human experiences. In fact, what is infinite and constantly subject to our imagination and our creative processes is the past; the memories stored, processed and shared, that integrate and ground our being.
Memory House is an art collaboration searching to explore the collective aspect of memory that leads to social integration and reveals human commonalities beyond ethnicity, background or political colour. Memory House is a place where different generations and cultures reveal the archetypal aspects of our humanity.
Memory House includes new work by the artist Mark Mawer, printing and art book produced by the artist Andrew Morrison and writing by the poet and sociologist Maria Stadnicka whose research is focused on transgenerational transmissions.
Publisher: Kerbstone Press
© Maria Stadnicka, January 2024
What I mostly remember about the past is a sum of absent encounters, people and things missing; summers, winters, in fact, years melted into a reservoir of images and experiences that are working their way slowly into my future. What I refuse to remember travels along as an indispensable companion to my imagination and my creativity. Understanding this companionship has been one reason for extending my PhD research on the Romanian diaspora in the United Kingdom and collective memory, to build Memøry Høuse. As an art collaboration, Memøry Høuse is searching for a point (or many points) of integrating social memories. Someone recently made me wonder whether this project is a constellation of remembering opportunities. It might possibly be true as not all memories make sense in words. Some are barely perceived in my body, in colour, in sound; or in places and in people. To some extent, my awareness of their existence often frees me from my own enslavement and, as a researcher and writer in this context, the enslavement of the generation I belong to: The Romanian Children of the Decree.
As the Memøry Høuse project evolves, my hope is that these memories will find a place of acknowledgment and, instead of travelling wildly, will begin to settle, find a home, or build their own house on a land that was once foreign but so familiar now.
My gratitude and so many thanks to the artists involved in this collaboration: Mark Mawer and Andrew Morrison.
Publisher: Kerbstone Press
© Maria Stadnicka, January 2024
What I mostly remember about the past is a sum of absent encounters, people and things missing; summers, winters, in fact, years melted into a reservoir of images and experiences that are working their way slowly into my future. What I refuse to remember travels along as an indispensable companion to my imagination and my creativity. Understanding this companionship has been one reason for extending my PhD research on the Romanian diaspora in the United Kingdom and collective memory, to build Memøry Høuse. As an art collaboration, Memøry Høuse is searching for a point (or many points) of integrating social memories. Someone recently made me wonder whether this project is a constellation of remembering opportunities. It might possibly be true as not all memories make sense in words. Some are barely perceived in my body, in colour, in sound; or in places and in people. To some extent, my awareness of their existence often frees me from my own enslavement and, as a researcher and writer in this context, the enslavement of the generation I belong to: The Romanian Children of the Decree.
As the Memøry Høuse project evolves, my hope is that these memories will find a place of acknowledgment and, instead of travelling wildly, will begin to settle, find a home, or build their own house on a land that was once foreign but so familiar now.
My gratitude and so many thanks to the artists involved in this collaboration: Mark Mawer and Andrew Morrison.
More updates will follow as the work continues. The exhibition Memøry Høuse will be on 20-26 February 2024 at the Lansdown Art Gallery, Stroud, Gloucestershire.
Publisher: Kerbstone Press
© Maria Stadnicka, November 2023
What I mostly remember about the past is a sum of absent encounters, people and things missing; summers, winters, in fact, years melted into a reservoir of images and experiences that are working their way slowly into my future. What I refuse to remember travels along as an indispensable companion to my imagination and my creativity. Understanding this companionship has been one reason for extending my PhD research on the Romanian diaspora in the United Kingdom and collective memory, to build Memøry Høuse. As an art collaboration, Memøry Høuse is searching for a point (or many points) of integrating social memories. Someone recently made me wonder whether this project is a constellation of remembering opportunities. It might possibly be true as not all memories make sense in words. Some are barely perceived in my body, in colour, in sound; or in places and in people. To some extent, my awareness of their existence often frees me from my own enslavement and, as a researcher and writer in this context, the enslavement of the generation I belong to: The Romanian Children of the Decree.
As the Memøry Høuse project evolves, my hope is that these memories will find a place of acknowledgment and, instead of travelling wildly, will begin to settle, find a home, or build their own house on a land that was once foreign but so familiar now.
My gratitude and so many thanks to the artists involved in this collaboration: Mark Mawer and Andrew Morrison.
More updates will follow as the work continues. The exhibition Memøry Høuse will be on 21-25 February 2024 at the Lansdown Art Gallery, Stroud, Gloucestershire.
Publisher: Kerbstone Press
© Maria Stadnicka, November 2023
What I mostly remember about the past is a sum of absent encounters, people and things missing; summers, winters, in fact, years melted into a reservoir of images and experiences that are working their way slowly into my future. What I refuse to remember travels along as an indispensable companion to my imagination and my creativity. Understanding this companionship has been one reason for extending my PhD research on the Romanian diaspora in the United Kingdom and collective memory, to build Memøry Høuse. As an art collaboration, Memøry Høuse is searching for a point (or many points) of integrating social memories. Someone recently made me wonder whether this project is a constellation of remembering opportunities. It might possibly be true as not all memories make sense in words. Some are barely perceived in my body, in colour, in sound; or in places and in people. To some extent, my awareness of their existence often frees me from my own enslavement and, as a researcher and writer in this context, the enslavement of the generation I belong to: The Romanian Children of the Decree.
As the Memøry Høuse project evolves, my hope is that these memories will find a place of acknowledgment and, instead of travelling wildly, will begin to settle, find a home, or build their own house on a land that was once foreign but so familiar now.
My gratitude and so many thanks to the artists involved in this collaboration: Mark Mawer and Andrew Morrison.
More updates will follow as the work continues. The exhibition Memøry Høuse will take place in February 2024 at the Lansdown Art Gallery, Stroud.
© Maria Stadnicka, September 2023
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