“Inspired by Dutch cycling culture and the presence of mobile phones in everyday life, Kamila Wolszczak has decided to organise an artistic social action, which will combine these two phenomena. “Let’s Draw our Friesland!” project will focus on relations between the artist and the participants in the process, the participants working together and between the Frisian region and its landscape. The relations mentioned here consist in art mediation, which, as a consciously selected means, leads to the engagement of the audience in active participation in art and influences the final effect of the artistic activities.

In  the course of the residency, the inhabitants of Leeuwarden and Friesland will be invited to participate in the project. The volunteers will form a creative working group, whose goal will be to give a new shape to the region. The artist considers it as a delegated performance, based on trust and imagination of the group. It will also be an attempt to create a large-scale drawing with the use of bicycles and collages of bike lanes that serve us in everyday life, and have the potential for creating a new context through social activity.

An artist and art mediator, Wolszczak organises walking tours around Wrocław as part of “Przesuwania” series. These are usually group walks but in reality their participants walk on their own, separately. This inspired the question on how to bring the persons walking and travelling in the same areas closer together. This question led the artist to the idea of selecting the project’s participants so that a given bike journey would be taken by two random people, who would have the opportunity to get to know each other as a result of their joint work. Furthermore, in this way the selected people can somehow become a pencil drawing a new, subjective map of the region. All of this will be also saved in a mobile application.

The project will be implemented as part of the European Capital of Culture Leeuwarden 2018 in the Netherlands, in the Frisian region, in connection with the invitation of the 4 Rotary Clubs Leeuwarden and in partnership with the Rotary Club in Chełm.