Tuesday, 18 November 2025
2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
Wardlaw Museum, Learning Loft
The Centre for Art and Politics (CAP) offered an unusual workshop in animation, dedicated to the legends of the seas. With invited stop-motion animation artist Viktoriia Ivanova, this event explored the seaside to collect stories and wake up the memories of other distant shores.
A native of Crimea, Viktoriia shared her own memories of her hometown of Feodosia, which is now unreachable to her, as the peninsula is currently occupied by the Russian Federation. What does it mean to dream and remember the sea that is no longer there? Is the sea ever there, ever the same, from day to day? How do you catch that particular water you saw many moons ago in your happiest and unhappiest memories?
The waves attract tides and stories. Attendees enjoyed a short walk to smell, touch, and see the seaside of St Andrews in a different way, and to try to put dreams and reveries in motion through the art of collage.
Attendees heard of the other, warmer sea, and were able to discuss the role that the waterfront plays in a town. The event also touched on tourism and fishermen, political and artistic underpinnings of home, and what a shoreline means to us.
