What's the Time in Vyborg?

Activity Type: 
Film
Date: 
Friday, February 25, 2011 - 14:00 to 16:30
Event Status: 
As Scheduled
Location: 
105 David Lawrence

A public screening of a film by Liisa Roberts. Between 2000 and 2004, Finnish-American artist Liisa Roberts directed a project in Vyborg, a city located in the Russian-Finnish border. First Finnish, subsequently Soviet, and currently Russian, Vyborg is home to one of the great works of modernist architect Alvar Aalto: a municipal library built in 1933, when the city was under Finnish jurisdiction, and which was heavily damaged during World War II. In 2001, Roberts invited local teenagers to collaborate on developing an artistic response to a joint Russo-Finnish initiative to restore the library. Working in a variety of media, the teens gave poetic form to the troubled past and imagined future of library and city. What's the Time in Vyborg? documents some of the Project's components-such as a Finnish bus tour of Vyborg-and stands as an artwork in its own right.

UCIS Unit: 
Center for Russian East European and Eurasian Studies
World Regions: 
Russia/Eastern Europe