NAC Library Talks in Vilnius. Thursday, November 14, 6 pm at VAA, Malūnų st. 3, building C1, room 102 the presentation of two publications The Right to Truth. Conversations on Art and Feminism and NAC Log No. 9. On Lines & Rituals will take place.

We invite you to the public event with curator Lesia Kulchynska, artist Olav Westphalen, researcher and previous artistic director of NAC Vytautas Michelkevičius and curator and director of NAC Egija Inzule. 

Date: November 14, 6 pm
Location: Malūnų st. 3, building C1, room 102
The event will be held in English

The Right to Truth. Conversations on Art and Feminism

Currently in residency at NAC in Nida,curator Lesia Kulchynska will speak about her most recent publication The Right to Truth. Conversations on Art and Feminism. The publication has beenco-edited withtheartist and researcher Oksana Briukhovetska and published by Visual Culture Research Center (Kyiv) in collaboration with European Alternatives (Paris). 

The publication collects interviews with female artists, curators, activists and thinkers of different generations from Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Poland, Czech Republic, France and the U.S. who were directly involved in the feminist movements of the 1970s. They speak about their personal experience of the past and express their views on the present discussing forms of feminist art and its role within the feminist movements in these regions today. The publication, therefore, presents the first-hand knowledge on the current feminist art practices and activism.

The book is published in two languages – Ukrainian and English.

Lesia Kulchynska
Curator, lecturer, researcher, publicist, PhD in Film Studies. She worked at Visual Culture Research Center (Kyiv) 2011-2019. She researches in image theory and film theory fields. Among the curated projects: Ukrainian Body (2012), Unrendered Spaces (2011-2014), discussion platform Between Revolution and War (2014), exhibition and research project Some Say You Can Find Happiness There (2015), The School of the Lonesome program of The School of Kyiv – Kyiv Biennial 2015, performance and exhibition project The Raft CrimeA (2016).

Oksana Briukhovetska
Artist and curator based in Kyiv, member of the Visual Culture Research Center (Kyiv). She writes texts and articles about art. She works with themes such as physicality, social exclusion, and the status and role of women. Her curatorial projects include, among others, the feminist exhibitions Motherhood (2015), What in Me is Feminine? (2015) and TEXTUS. Embroidery, Textile, Feminism (2017). In 2018 she was co-curator and participant of the Neighbors Warsaw under Construction X Festival.

Nida Art Colony Log No. 9 On Lines & Rituals

With the presentation of the 9th issue of Nida Art Colony Log On Lines & Rituals, Vytautas Michelkevičius closes his artistic directorship at VAA Nida Art Colony (2011–2019).

This volume reflects and documents the years 2017 and 2018 of VAA Nida Art Colony program. Designed by Tadas Karpavičius, the publication layout is organized in three separate issues and adopts the idea of a folder.  
The first issue summarizes the program of 2017, its exhibition When the Sea Looks Back (A Serpent’s Tale) and Inter-format Symposium Along Lines, that reflected on the line as a very basic visual element and medium of knowledge.
The second issue includes documentation of the Inter-format Symposium on Rites and Terabytes in which the sensitive matters of traversed post-colonial mentality in the Baltic-Nordic region and the gaps between “Eastern” and “Western” discourses were discussed. What does it mean to be inter-pagan and follow the tracks of object-oriented-feminism?
The third issue extends the summer exhibition (Per)forming Scapes and presents the rich material collected during the artistic research residencies by the artists and architects: Lina Lapelytė, Ona Lozuraitytė and Petras Išora, Špela Petrič, Anna Romanenko and Björn Kühn.

Moreover, the dust cover of the publication shows visual documentation of the 2019 Inter-format Symposium On Fluidity of Humour And Absurdity. The artist Olav Westphalen who was among the participants of the Symposium will be present at the magazine launch.

First 30 guests will receive the magazine for free. 
After presentation the Log will be also available for download here.