Project assistant Daina Pupkeviciute has joined Nida Art Colony Team
- Published on Friday, 08 March 2013 10:37
From March 12th Nida Art Colony team is getting bigger with a new member of the team. We have got 85 applications and after reviewal and interviews, we have decided to invite Daina Pupkeviciute.
2013 Residency Applications Review Update
- Published on Tuesday, 05 March 2013 11:28
We are currently reviewing the 127 applications we received for 2013 and are pleased to invite Nestori Syrjälä and Adrien Siberchicot for March-May residencies.
We received 23 applications for our thematic Critical-tourism residencies, 53 applications (64 artists because of some collaborations) for our thematic Techno-ecologies residencies and 51 applications for Individual residencies.
Sucessful applicants from June onwards will be announced in the coming weeks (hopefully by 18th of March).
Call for proposals for Inter-format Symposium [ON HOSTING AND DISPLACING] on Critical tourism, site-specificity and post-romantic condition until 1st of March
- Published on Tuesday, 19 February 2013 15:29
In a time where heritage, sustainability and ecology increasingly cross the path of tourism, artists working in remote contexts and tourists often share the observation of similar cultural objects: iconic landscape sites, vernacular culture and authentic artefacts, invented traditions and nostalgia.
One effect of this condition, as Miwon Kwon highlights in the essay “The Wrong Place”, is that the increasing mobility of the art system, involving both centres and remote situations, has led to romanticising the image of the cultural worker. The symposium aims at bringing into question correspondences between artistic practices and critical tourism in a trans-disciplinary context. In contemporary artistic practices, do displacements take the form of a romantic expedition or are they based on hospitality and exchange? And what happens in the stay? What kind of connection/network of competence can be developed in a situation of post-romantic retreat? How to avoid and/or critically read the exoticism potential arisen by these sites? How to deal with these two new genres of colonies – artistic and touristic ones – that are both conceptually and physically re-shaping the landscape?
Nida Art Colony is looking for projects assistant with fluent Lithuanian language skills
- Published on Wednesday, 13 February 2013 15:22
Part-time position is available from March, 2013. More about the requirements read in Lithuanian version of this site.
Nida Art Colony is inviting guest curators and organisations to propose a project in 2013
- Published on Wednesday, 06 February 2013 14:16
You will find details and application form here http://nidacolony.lt/en/facilities.
The priority is given to applications received by 28th of February, 2013. However you can apply all year round. Please contact us with specific dates regarding availability and capacity.
French Cinema Festival - Winter Screens is comming to Nida Art Colony
- Published on Tuesday, 05 February 2013 21:13
Two films are going to be shown at 6pm on 8th and 9th of February.
Friday: MANO NAKTIS SU MOD / Ma nuit chez Maud, 1968, 110 min., N-16.
Saturday: VASAROS PASAKA / Conte d'été, , 1996, 116 min. N-16.
Deadline for residencies in Nida Art Colony from March to December 2013 is approaching - Feb 15th
- Published on Monday, 21 January 2013 10:00
Welcome to apply for residencies for March-December period in 2013 - deadline for residency applications is February 15, 2013.
Two types of residencies are available: individual and thematic (with grants) residencies. Please indicate the selected type of residency in the subject line and follow the application guidelines.
More follow here Call for residency applications, symposium on critical tourism and a trainee.
New Artists in the Residency January 2013
- Published on Wednesday, 16 January 2013 14:26
Nida Art Colony welcomes five new residents, Gustavo Jahn (BR), Melissa Dullius (BR), Justin Tate (CA/USA/EE) Michelle Mantsio (AUS) and Sacha Waldron (IRL/UK), that recently joined our current Winter/Spring residencies.
Gustavo Jahn and Melissa Dullius form the Berlin-based Distruktur duo. Distruktur works mainly in films, which are presented in screenings, installations and performances. Their work moves between cinema and visual arts, fiction and reality, photography and moving image. During their residency at Nida Art Colony, Distruktur are making a film for an exhibition taking place at CAC in Vilnius (April 2013) curated by Ula Turnau and Asta Vaiciulyte. The film will gravitate towards magick, rites, and the South.
Michelle Mantsio's art practice includes video/animation, installation, drawing, and performance. She is interested in how you might track something through pattern and at Nida is exploring how this might emerge through the relationship of hosting between environments of landscape, architecture and humans.
Justin Tate is collaborating with NeringaFM Director, Linas Ramanauskas to create a new public space in the form of an art installation/ice fishing shanty. For a period of 10 days, the aesthetically modified structure will provide access for fisher-people in the region to practice their sport. Simultaneously, the intimacies provided by the visitors to the shanty, personal stories of those who come to the ice for solitude, reflection and of course fish, will be broadcast to the general public on the Curonian Spit and those listening abroad on NeringaFM's internet radio.
Sacha Waldron (IRL) is a writer, curator and artist who will be based in Nida for the next five months acting as shadow curator for the residency programme at the Colony. Sacha was previously curatorial fellow at Arnolfini in Bristol. Sacha writes articles, criticism and makes interviews for several online art platforms and magazines. She recently completed her MA in Curating Contemporary Art from the Royal College of Art in London and, in May, will take over as curator for Crate Project Space in Margate.
