NAC Residencies Open Call 2020: Selected Artists
- Published on Wednesday, 03 June 2020 12:10
Alina Lupu, Minimum Wage Dress Code (2018), performance documentation. Courtesy of the artist.
| We are happy to announce the four artists selected to participate in NAC residencies for autumn 2020. Applications were evaluated and the selection finalised by the NAC team and board member, artist Lina Lapelyte. Upcoming application deadlines: 28 August, 2020 for residency period December 2020–May 2021 and 28 February, 2021 for residency period June–November 2021. Gisèle Gonon lives and works in Berlin. In her practice Gonon dissects economic and social processes related directly to her own environment, in particular labour, agriculture, and territorial politics. In Nida, Gonon will make a video montage around the Berlin agricultural protests of early 2020, and she will further deepen the sociological, iconographic, and formal research of the events. Gonon is the co-founder of the CCPC collective [Collisions, Cataclysms and Construction Permits] and participated in the Goldrausch-Künstlerinnen Projekt. Her works were recently exhibited at Continuum in Bordeaux, Ostfriesland in Berlin, and Baumwollspinnerei in Leipzig (2019). Alina Lupu lives and works in Amsterdam. She is a visual artist and writer with a background in psychology and photography. Her current work focuses on the suspension of regular working time: unemployment, pension, and post-work, and the ways how these topics impact the lives of art workers and labourers in general. Lupu’s work has been shown at Bruno Gallerian in Stockholm (2020), W139 in Amsterdam, and Onomatopee in Eindhoven (2019), among others. Liene Pavlovska lives and works in Riga. She is a visual artist and scenographer with a background in interior architecture. Her practice focuses on the responsibility of individual actions and the accountability of a collective body. She researches and uses theatrical modes of expression, and the experience of catharsis in the context of visual art. In Nida, Pavlovska will analyse the spatial politics of the Curonian Spit as a Unesco World Heritage site, continuing research she started during a HIAP residency on the Suomenlinna island of Helsinki, focusing on a defense fortress, another Unesco World Heritage Site. Pavlovska’s works were recently exhibited at KIM? in Riga (2019), Klaproos (2018), and Rietveld Pavilion (2017) in Amsterdam. Jasmine Reimer lives and works in Berlin and Toronto. In her sculptures, installations, and performances Reimer captures transformation and hybrid forms, corporeal experiences and excess. She researches historic and contemporary goddess symbols, and how these woven into fabrics or voiced in song-speak of kin-like relationships, ecology, spirituality, and religion. In Nida, Reimer will focus on matriarchal societies of the Neolithic and Bronze Age in Eastern Europe, studying the work of archeologist and anthropologist Marija Gimbuta as a leading reference. Reimer’s solo exhibitions were shown at Forest City Gallery in London, Ontario (2018), Georgia Scherman Projects in Toronto, and Projet Pangee in Montreal (2017). NAC Residencies are co-funded by Lithuanian Council for Culture.
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