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On March 16th vessel presents the research of the artist Elke Roelant at BLUorG gallery. The artist is in Bari to investigate her interest in the Giant Step project and to start working on an experimental methodology within it. She will show the phases that have led her to an ethnographic approach in her artistic practice, illustrating how participatory research can provoke different interventions that link art and anthropology. Elke will speak about the Catalogue Project at the V. Makharoblidze Museum of Lore and Ethnography, Tsageri, which aimed to identify, locate and visualize a notion of Georgian culture, with a special focus on historical and cultural awareness and its consequences in the context of transformation.

Elke Roelant (1977, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium), graduated from Rietveld Academy in 2005 and lives in Amsterdam. She primarily works with photography, occasionally using video, and is interested in expanding her work with more spatial expressions and interventions, especially in public space.
Research and interpretation have become important elements and consequently distinct phases in her work and process. A period of engaged participation is usually followed by or intertwined with an equally intense editing phase. She prefers an artistic output, rather than a theoretical or academic one, for its richness as well as its depth and width of communication. For her, making work means relating to the world; investigating not only the reality of the marketplace and outer events but also the reality of motivations, inner values and psychological dynamics.