Editors - Basia SliwinskaMargarida Brito Alves
Latvian artist Eva Vēvere’s reflection accompanying the drawings created as a commentary on the final event in a series of events that were part of “The Lost-and-Found: Revising Art Stories in search of Potential Changes” symposium organised between December 2023 and June 2024 in Lisbon, Warsaw and Riga, highlights the entanglements accompanying conversations that happened between the symposium participants.[1] “Connecting the dots” that Vēvere writes about is not an easy task; it is one that foregrounds methods and strategies of making relations, which was the key focus of “The Lost-and-Found” initiative. Emerging itself out of a conversation between individuals associated with three institutions in Portugal, Poland and Latvia, the dialogues initiated at the three gatherings turned into a durational inter-conversation that expanded towards others, human and non-human.[2] This was unexpected, catalysing literal connections through talking-with, eating-with and walking-with, and metaphorical moving-with each other in turbulent times affecting our situated worlds.