Nida Art Colony, the new subdivision of Vilnius Academy of Arts (Lithuania), was opened in March 2011. The principal objective of the Colony is to improve the quality of art education in Lithuania, create favourable conditions for creative contemporary art practices, facilitate international and local collaboration and experiment in both art and art education.
Location. Nida Art Colony is situated on the Curonian Spit, which is a 98 km long peninsula separating the Curonian Lagoon and the Baltic Sea. The Curonian Spit is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List as one of the most beautiful and unique cultural landscapes of Europe.
INTER-FORMAT SYMPOSIUM: REINVENTING INTERDISCIPLINARITY May 3-6, 2011, Nida/Vilnius.
Curators: Vytautas Michelkevičius, Jodi Rose and Mindaugas Gapševičius
Welcome to the non-stop event shifting from performance to lecture to basketball game to sauna broadcast to performative discussion to artists guided site/sight/seeing to discursive dinner to role play to interactive buffet to screening to imaginary cartography to workshop to tea ritual to slow reading to sonic massage to knowledge sharing to book launch to critical sauna to guided orientation to conceptual sentiments.
Nida is known as a charming resort on the Baltic Sea coast—our intention is to re-brand it as a site for reinvention of interdisciplinarity between art & research & science.
The symposium is hosting 40 artists, curators, researchers and practitioners to reinvent the format of presenting and sharing art, knowledge and experience. One of the key features of contemporary culture is the changing role of the artist, who sometimes assumes the role of a researcher and curator, and vice versa. Where are the borders of these roles? How could a serious researcher and theorist do a performance, and how could a playful artist do serious research and theorize?
Full programme is available at www.nidacolony.lt.
Symposium is part of the T-R-A-C-E-S.net project, organized together with Transcultures (Mons, BE) and IRZU (Ljubljana, Slovenia). TRACES is supported by European Commission (DG EAC- Programme Culture 2007-2013), Pro Helvetia (Swiss Arts Council), Lithuanian Culture Support Foundation.
CALL FOR RESIDENCY APPLICATIONS
Deadline: June 15th, 2011
The Nida Artist-in-residence Programme is intended for professional visual artists, designers, architects, curators, art critics and art historians.
Nida residencies: between October 1 (2011) and January 31 (2012); duration: 1 to 4 months; 3 grants covering travel, living and materials expenses for Nordic and Baltic residents are available; for others studio rent fee is 312 Eur/month, including all taxes, use of equipment, bicycles and the minivan (selected candidates are issued a letter of support).
Residency Conditions: the Colony offers the necessary living and socialising facilities that ensure comfortable and unobtrusive coexistence of the five artists-in-residence. Each of the five residencies is set out on two floors, has 65 sq. m of floor space, and features all the necessary facilities; residents are welcome to use the Colony‘s communal spaces, equipment, bicycles and minivan; a 600-metre walk down a forest path from the Colony is a beach with sand dunes.
CALL FOR EVENT PROPOSALS
Deadline for October-December events is 31st of May.
Nida Art Colony welcomes proposals from curators/institutions to collaborate or to rent the spaces for doing events at the Colony.
The colony’s facilities:
seminar (53 sq. m.) and conference/exhibition (100 sq. m.) spaces;
roof terrace (100 sq. m.);
53-bed guest house;
multifunctional industrial space (423 sq. m.);
media lab and other equipment.
We offer 50% discount from regular prices for cultural and educational events.
More information at www.nidacolony.lt
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Nida Art Colony, Taikos str. 43, Neringa (Nida), Lithuania.If you have any questions, please contact Vytautas Michelkevicius, artistic director: +370 662 45216, [email protected]
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