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Mobile Culture Studies. The Journal 4 2o18 Katy Beinart | Khlebosolny/Bread and Salt 17 how individual subjectivities are identified and how dialogue between self and other is revealed and concealed, where those others may be in the past. I also ask how pasts and presents are negotiated in the making and unmaking of subjectivities, and how these contested relationships between past and present may be traced, acknowledged and surfaced. We knew that Woolf Beinart, our great-grandfather on our grandfather Ben’s side, had grown up in or near to a small town in north-eastern Lithuania called Rokiskis, and that further back some family had lived in the capital Vilnius. We also knew that Anne, our great-great-grandmother on our grandmother Gladys’s side, was born in St Petersburg in 1865. She had trav- elled with her father Nicolas Filaratoff from St Petersburg to Hamburg around 1873 and the family then settled in Hull ten years later. Anne married Leopold Pearlman in Hull and our great-grandmother, Edith Pearlman, was born in Hull in 1891. Leopold, Anne and Edith emigrated to South Africa in the early 1900s, as did Woolf. Edith and her daughter Gladys (my father’s mother) had kept quite good records of the family’s period in, and later con- nection with, Hull. But little survived from the period before. We had a few pieces of evidence: studio photographs of Anne in Hamburg, family reminiscences, and a war medal from Russia (figure 2). In summer 2012, Rebecca and I travelled to Lithu- ania and St Petersburg to do further research into our family history, and make artwork together, as a mobile, unstructured residency. We hoped that this journey might enable us to fill some of the gaps and absences in our family’s story. Figure 2: Potrait and medal of Anne. Source: author.