NAC Residencies in July 2020

Published on Monday, 06 July 2020 07:59
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Jurga Daubaraitė and Jonas Žukauskas, Timber seasoning shed (2020), NAC. Photo by Jonas Žukauskas.
 
In July artists, curators and architects Eglė Budvytytė, Jurga Daubaraitė and Jonas Žukauskas, Adomas Narkevičius, Robertas Narkus and Milda Zabarauskaitė will stay at NAC. In July we also welcome the first “institution-in-residency” participant, the team of CAC Vilnius. 
 
Eglė Budvytytė is an artist based in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. She graduated from Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam in 2008, and has been working at the intersection of performing and visual arts ever since. Budvytytė makes videos and performances to explore the relationships between a body, public spaces, and an audience.
Her work was shown, amongst others, at 13th Baltic Triennial, Riga (2018); Lofoten International Art Festival (2017); Block Universe, London (2017); Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (2016); Liste, Art Basel (2015); 19th Biennale of Sydney (2014). In Nida Budvytytė is working on a new production for RIBOCA 2 and the upcoming 4Cs exhibition at NAC: Dew Dune Dawn. Across a Broken Horizon, curated by Rado Ištok. 
 
Jurga Daubaraitė and Jonas Žukauskas are a duo of spatial practitioners currently based in Vilnius. Through architectural, curatorial, and research projects they aim to create new relations between societies and their environments (past and future) by seeking to rearticulate architecture in a wider ecology of practices.
They curated the exhibition The Baltic Material Assemblies at AA Gallery and RIBA in London (2018), and were co-curators of The Baltic Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition at Venice Biennale (2016), and co-editors of The Baltic Atlas published by Sternberg (2016). Currently Daubaraitė and Žukauskas are working on Creative Playground and Garden in Vilnius and developing Neringa Forest Architecture Residency programme with focus on the material cycle of timber at NAC.
 
Adomas Narkevičius is curator and art historian based between London and Vilnius. Currently he is working on the notion of untimely art, through which he reconsiders the "belated" art of the Baltics during the 20th century. He is interested in the non-linearity of historical time as well as the body, sexuality, and the limits of representation. This research is part of his dissertation Defiant Bodies: Untimely Art in the Baltics under the Soviet Rule, for MA History of Art at UCL, London.
Most recently, he curated the JCDecaux Emerging Artist Prize at the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, (with Monika Kalinauskaitė, 2018-2019); produced and curated the Alternative Education Programme for emerging artists, and curated the Public and Residencies programmes at Rupert (2017-2019). In 2016, he initiated the Reading Room and Sound Art programming at Rupert. He is also a member of the Lithuanian experimental pop band Without Letters.
 
Robertas Narkus, living and working in Vilnius, describes his practice as the “management of circumstances in the economy of coincidence”. He brings together the ordinary and the absurd to explore notions of sovereignty, economy, desire technology, and obsolescence. Narkus uses performances, videos, installations, media art objects, and events as a medium.
Recently he exhibited at David Dale gallery in Glasgow (2019), CAC Vilnius (2017), and KIM? in Riga (2017). Narkus initiated and runs the artist day-care centre Autarkia in Vilnius, is founder of Vilnius Institute for Pataphysics, and the experimental engineering camp eeKūlgrinda.
 
Milda Zabarauskaitė lives and works in Vilnius. She graduated from Vilnius Academy of Arts Photography and Media Art Department. Zabarauskaitė stopped working as a practicing artist in 2012, but prior to that she exhibited in group exhibitions at CAC Vilnius, Talinn Kunsthalle, and gallery Vartai (among others). Zabarauskaitė is co-founder of the artist day-care centre Autarkia and director of the artist run restaurant Delta Mityba in Vilnius.
She is currently working on research into the notion of the revenge of nature as seen from the perspective of exploitation of ecology for artistic projects and career building. With Autarkia she collaborates to the NAC night event programme to take place throughout the summer at local Nida bars and clubs. 
 
The residency of the Contemporary Art Centre at NAC is an opportunity for those members of the CAC’s team, who are responsible for the institution's content, to work together while working separately. Recently, they have been experimenting with a wide range of collective working methods, looking for new collaborative means and principles that best meet the needs of today’s art field as well as their own. Time and again they became convinced that the opportunity to escape to Nida in the heat of summer work (or immediately after it) provides  much-needed distance and perspective.
 
Participants:
 
Neringa Bumblienė is a curator at CAC, currently working on several projects: the exhibition of the American artist Michael Rakowitz at the CAC and the Lithuanian National museum of Art, the exhibition JCDecaux Prize 2020, and the continually renewed CAC Sculpture Yard. In addition, together with other CAC curators Ūla Tornau and Julija Fomina, Bumblienė is creating a series of short films about the most prominent contemporary Lithuanian artists for the Lithuanian public broadcaster, LRT. The Michael Rakowitz and JCDecaux Awards exhibitions will open in September.
 
Julija Fomina is a curator at CAC and the coordinator of the upcoming Baltic Triennial (introductory events of which will take place in the CAC sculpture yard on 22-24 July). A series of events titled How to Work With the Present, initiated by Fomina to discuss various ways and principles of contemporary art institutions, will take place this autumn.
 
Virginija Januškevičiūtė is a curator at CAC and their deputy director for art and publicity. An exhibition by the US artist Arthur Jafa, curated by Januškevičiūtė, will open on 10 July and will be accompanied by a series of events exploring race and cultural appropriation. In September, CAC and the Museum of Energy and Technology in Vilnius will open the international group exhibition Splitting the Atom, dedicated to nuclear culture and industries, curated by Januškevičiūtė and Ele Carpenter.
 
Kęstutis Kuizinas is the director of CAC, who is currently leading not only the team of the CAC and its programmes, but also the soon to come reconstruction of the building. The forthcoming period when this institution will operate without its own space is another stimulus to look for new ways of working that best meet the ever-changing needs of the art field.
 
Kamilė Krasauskaitė is a curator of education and community involvement activities at CAC, as well as an artist who likes to delve into various communal and performative activities. Krasauskaitė organises a part of the activities for the first CAC summer camp and develops and coordinates various educational programmes that accompany the upcoming CAC exhibitions.
 
Vilius Vaitiekūnas is a curator of education and community involvement activities at CAC. Together with Krasauskaitė, he organises the first CAC summer camp and educational programmes that complement the CAC exhibitions. Vaitiekūnas contributes to the development of various aspects of CAC infrastructure, communication, and internal processes related to the concept of community.
 
Jurga Sakalauskaitė is the curator of the CAC Reading room, usually the first to meet all the visitors to the room and coordinate the events taking place there. She is currently engaged in growing both the selection of the publications and an event programme.
 
Asta Vaičiulytė is a curator at CAC; the exhibition by German photographer Jochen Lempert, curated by her, will open on 17 July. Vaičiulytė is also preparing a printed series of talks between various participants of the Lithuanian contemporary art scene of the last three decades and is curating the solo exhibition of Jurgis Paškevičius, which will open by the end of the year.
 
Vytautas Volbekas is the CAC graphic designer, creating the identity of most CAC exhibitions. Volbekas also contributes to the creation of the identity for the new (future) NAC.
 
Ūla Tornau is a curator at the CAC and the head of the project department. The exhibition Daynighting by Kipras Dubauskas, curated by Tornau, will open on 11 July. She actively participates in the processes of analysis and formation of Vilnius public spaces.
 
 
NAC residency programme is co-funded by Lithuanian Council for Culture.