NAC Residencies in August 2020

: Published on Monday, 03 August 2020 16:00

Ieva Rojūtė, MOTHER & TONGUE (2018). Solo show at Editorial project space in Vilnius. Photo by Ugnius Gelguda.

After Covid-19 caused a gap of three months in hosting international practitioners at NAC, in August we open the studios again to an international group of artists, graphic designers, photographers, curators, and researchers to stay in Nida. Carefully monitoring the possibilities of travel and international measures at stake, we are happy for this window of chance that allow Antonie Angerer, Tabea Feuerstein and Marc Hollenstein, Rado Ištok, Ieva Rojūtė, Noëmie Vermoesen (Gigsta), and Seyoung Yoon to travel to Nida.

In August we launch the first residencies connected to The Nightlife Residency Programme: DJ, producer, researcher, and writer Noëmie Vermoesen (Gigsta) has come to Lithuania by ferry, and already performed at Sapfo festival prior to her arrival in Nida. One of NAC's partners in this programme, Antonie Angerer from I: Project Space in Beijing, has also arrived and will pursue the exchange of programmes as ideated by ex-cultural attache in Beijing Agne Biliunaite when initiating curators-from-Lithuania residency at I: Project Space in 2019.

Seyoung Yoon was supposed to stay in Nida in March and April to work on her book initiated by NAC with After8Books in Paris. We are happy for Seyoung Yoon to stay in Nida in August and finish the writing process in Nida.

The artist Ieva Rojūtė and curator Rado Ištok stay in Nida as part of their work connected to the upcoming exhibition The Spectral Forest, to open at NAC on 27 August.

Gigsta (lives and works in Berlin) gets as much joy dancing to music as she does reflecting on it – as an academic researcher, DJ, producer, promoter, radio host, and zine maker. Her show on Berlin’s Cashmere Radio, Fictions, gives you a feel for the breadth of her enthusiasm (recent themed shows have covered Bandcamp edits, laughter, the cosmos, and Anne Garreta’s experimental novel Sphinx). Gigsta recently curated a zine with and about women writing on dance music. But it’s in the club where Gigsta’s DJing really shines. She might throw together playful disco with obscure bass-heavy grooves, deftly switch tempo multiple times in a set, bleed in the odd cut-out sample hinting at an oblique theme, or incorporate her own edits. Gigsta is a resident at the Berlin-based queer femme and non-binary forward collective Room4Resistance, promotes her own parties called Fictions, and has been invited to perform in many clubs and festivals across Europe. However, her gig schedule is organised at train pace: in 2019, Gigsta decided to stop flying completely. Gigsta currently writes her PhD thesis Techno taken at its word: electronic dance music criticism in Germany, France and the United Kingdom 1986–1999 at Université Rennes 2 in Comparative Literature.
Gigsta’s residency is co-funded by Goethe-Institut Lithuania via Thomas Mann Cultural Center and Lithuanian Council for Culture.

Antonie Angerer (usually lives and works in Beijing, during Covid-19 restrictions of travel to China in Regensburg) is a founder and director of I: Project Space, an augmentation of what a contemporary art institution can be, by using the freedom that comes along with running an independent practice. By placing emphasis on the open dialogues, I: Project Space looks to foster experimentation, collaboration and interdisciplinary exchange. NAC, I: Project Space, and The Neighborhood collaborate in organising the Nightlife Residency Programme in Nida.
Angerer’s research also emerges within offsite projects at institutions including Si Shang Art Museum (Beijing), CAFAM (Beijing), UCCA (Beijing), Kunsthalle Baden-Baden (Baden-Baden), basis (Frankfurt), and other spaces such as Loris (Berlin), On Screen Today (New York), 4A Contemporary (Sydney), and Swimming Pool (Sofia).

Ieva Rojūtė currently lives and works in Vilnius. While introducing the spatial form of the installation into textual works, Rojūtėlooks at connections between the constructs of the society and the family, conflicts in individuals’ identities and folklore, and connecting themes – the possibility of failure, misfortune, anxiety and fear.
Her solo exhibitions took place at PS2 in Belfast (2019) and Editorial in Vilnius (2018). Recently Rojūtė’s works were exhibited in group shows at Autarkia in Vilnius (2019), 13th Baltic Triennale in Vilnius and Tallinn (2018), Ujazdowski Castle in Warsaw (2018), TUM Cultural Association, Le Murate in Florence (2018), and Vartai Gallery, Vilnius (2017), among others.

Seyoung Yoon (lives and works in Berlin) works with installation, painting, video, and writing. Her recent solo shows include Éclair in Berlin (2019) and Bar du Bois in Vienna (2018). Her works were recently exhibited in group shows at Lars Friedrich in Berlin (2020), Mother Culture in Berlin (2020), and Galerie der Stadt Schwaz, Schwaz (2019). In Nida Yoon will focus on the book that she has been working on – a publication about current South Korean art and artists published by NAC and After8Books in Paris, funded by KAMS.

Tabea Feuerstein is a photographer and designer based in Berlin.
Marc Hollenstein is a graphic designer living and working in Berlin. He works with various institutions and cultural practitioners. Ongoing projects include the identity for KW Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin, Grazer Kunstverein in Graz, and Kunstverein in Amsterdam. In recent years he has designed many publications, including Image Bank (2019), Adam Pandleton: Black Data Reader (2017), Josef Bauer: Works 1965-Today (2015), Oceans of Love: the Uncontainable Gregory Battcock (2016), and Mierle Laderman Ukeles: Seven Work Ballets (2015).

Rado Ištok is a curator, researcher and editor based in Stockholm. He is a curator of the 4Cs: From Conflict to Conviviality through Creativity and Culture programme at NAC (2018-2020), consisting of artist residencies, a workshop Dwelling on the Threshold accompanied by an e-publication under the same title (February 2020) and exhibition The Spectral Forest (to open 27 August at NAC). He is also a project leader of Spaces of Care, Disobedience and Desire (2018-2020), a research project in collaboration with Marie-Louise Richards and Natália Rebelo, supported by artistic research funding of the Royal Institute of Art, Stockholm.
Recent exhibitions include Black Atlas (2019) by Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn at the Július Koller Society in Bratislava, Slovakia; Liquid Horizons (2019) at tranzit.sk in Bratislava, Slovakia; Other Visions (2018) within the PAF - Festival of Film Animation in Olomouc, the Czech Republic; and I’m fine, on my way home now (2017) at Allkonstrummet, Stockholm, and Galleri Gerlesborg (2018). As an assistant curator he worked on the exhibition Positions #3 (2016) at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven. Editorial work includes Crating the World (Athénée Press, 2019), an artist book of Jacqueline Hoàng Nguyễn; e-publication Decolonising Archives (L’Internationale Online, 2016), and Queer Scandinavia (A2, 2015).

NAC Residencies are co-funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.