Living Heritage after the exhibition: the Blue Point Art Archive at CAPHE Kraków 2026

BPA will participate in the international conference Communities of Perception: Turn to Self-Observation, held at the Jagiellonian University in Kraków from 9 to 12 June 2026. The conference is part of CAPHE - Communities and Artistic Participation in Hybrid Environment, an international research and artistic project exploring hybrid environments, participation, digital media, cultural heritage and new forms of community-based artistic practice.

At the conference, Dr Justyna Gorzkowicz, Director of the Research Center on the Legacy of Polish Migration (ReCeLPM), Polish Writers Abroad in London / ZPPnO, and Jarosław Solecki, Director of Blue Point Art, will jointly present the paper The Virtual Archive as Performative Documentation: Living Literary Heritage and the Afterlife of Artistic Process. The presentation will be part of the panel Online Archives, Public Memory and Aesthetic Judgment.

The paper will focus on BPA’s work, developed in collaboration with ReCeLPM, in preserving and reactivating Living Heritage: Remediating through Videopoetry within the BPA Archive. The exhibition was first presented in November 2025 at the Gallery of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon and in the Spatial metaverse.

In the BPA Archive, the project brings together literary interpretation, videopoems, multilingual collaboration, visual experimentation, a curatorial dossier, scholarly articles and digital exhibition practice. It includes three videopoetic works: One Earth, based on Stanisław Młodożeniec’s poem W drodze; Echoes of a Father, based on Stanisław Vincenz’s Paraphrase of the Lord’s Prayer; and Disappeared Mirrors of Fernando Pessoa, based on the writings of Fernando Pessoa and his heteronyms.

The presentation will ask what happens to an artistic and educational project after the exhibition is over. How can we preserve not only the final works, but also the process, workshop context, artistic decisions, individual voices and ways of experiencing the project?

In the BPA Archive, Living Heritage is not treated as a closed event, but as a living artistic and research process. Visitors can enter the 3D exhibition space, encounter the videopoems, follow contextual materials and experience the project through navigation, sound, image, text and spatial arrangement. The archive does not simply store traces of the past. It creates conditions in which the artistic process can be revisited, interpreted and experienced again. In this sense, the Blue Point Art Archive becomes not only a repository, but also a space of cultural memory, artistic continuation and renewed participation.

We invite you to explore the archival exhibition here: Living Heritage: Remediating through Videopoetry.

CAPHE - Communities and Artistic Participation in Hybrid Environment has received funding from the Horizon Europe programme under Grant Agreement No. 101086391.