Living Tradition
I·08 · Dimension of Song · Open for collaboration
Dress, song and ritual — brought back before they fall silent.
Grandmother’s headscarf in a chest, a melody only one singer still knows, a paper cut-out pattern behind a holy picture. We reconstruct Polish folk dress, objects, songs and music from photographs, recordings and stories — and give them back to people.
Problem
Regional costumes decay in chests, and recordings of old songs have never been described. The last singers, musicians and seamstresses are passing away — and with them the knowledge of how to sew, play and sing it.
FTI
High-resolution scans and photographs of costumes and objects, reconstruction of colours and cuts from archival photographs, recordings of singers and village bands with notation and lyrics — and then workshops where all of it comes back to life.
- 5 costumes — regional, in the gallery
- 2 recordings — band and song
- 16 axes — of paper-cut symmetry
- 2024–2026: Reconstruction of photographs and documents — the method developed in the Laboratory
- 2026: Living Tradition joins the foundation’s initiatives
- 2026–2027: Reconstruction of regional costumes from archival photographs
- 2027: Recordings of singers and folk bands of the Lublin region
- 2027: A digital chest of the municipality: costumes, objects and songs in one place
- 2028: Workshops for schools and rural women’s circles: embroidery, paper cutting, singing
Fundacja Tradycji i Innowacji · KRS 0001049849 · NIP 7123459248 · REGON 525955729 · Józefów 58A, 21-050 Piaski · biuro@ftii.pl
