NAC Residencies in April 2021
- Published on Wednesday, 31 March 2021 17:59
Bakers' Forum. For choreography 2020. Foto by Kamilė Krasauskaitė.
In April, following practitioners are working in Nida: editor Anne Hovad Fischer, researcher Agata Marzecova, Kamilė Krasauskaitė and Jonas Palekas from Bakers’ forum, as well a filmmaker and artist Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė.
Jonas Palekas and Kamilė Krasauskaitė are leading the organisation called Bakers’ forum, dedicated to practical experiments and research connecting the worlds of bread baking and art. It occasionally involves other professionals of academic and creative fields. Major topics and interests include commensality, experimental food design, patterns of time, collaboration between humans, microorganisms and how it all shapes the food we eat. In August 2020 the project was launched by an experimental bread baking workshop which shaped the discussion between people of interest. In February 2021 Bread Delivery infrastructure reflected food consumption practices and distance commensality issues during the pandemic. During the stay in NAC Bakers’ Forum join the growing community of the Neringa Forest Architecture residents and will continue to work in the field of food via theoretical studies and practical baking sessions.
Anne Hovad Fischer works within film, education and research. She is based in Copenhagen. She is interested in the social potential of visual storytelling, spanning many interest fields such as environmental, performativity, vision, belonging and creativity. When appropriate, humour and banalities are applied as a tool as well as a wish for expanding the boundaries of what is expected and challenging the norms that surround us. In Nida, Hovad Fischer will work on her research on the topic of humans and nature (human nature).
Agata Marzecova is a researcher in ecology, photography, and new media based in Tallinn. As an environmental scientist, she has participated in a range of research projects that have analysed changes in lakes and their catchments during the transition from the Holocene to Anthropocene periods. In recent years, she has become increasingly involved in art-science collaborations which explore the porous boundaries between science, aesthetics, technology, and politics of environments. As part of the NFA residency, Marzecova explores the relationship between research methodologies and forest knowledge. Her research departs from ‘forest’ as a general category to examine how certain types of forest came to be regarded as ‘better’ than others and how different practices and values contribute to the emergence of different forest ecosystems.
Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė explores the tensions between objective and imaginary realities in her art works, asking relevant questions about humanity and humans as a species. Barzdžiukaitė's work is characterised as having specific harmonies between humour and serenity, simplicity and intellectuality, and her documentary manner of recording phenomena is combined with a well-thought-out structure of works. In 2019 Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė (together with Vaiva Grainyte and Lina Lapelyte) represented Lithuania at the Venice Biennale with the opera-performance Sun and Sea (Marina). Her film Acid Forest, created together with Dovydas Korba, about tourists watched by cormorants on the Curonian Spit, has been awarded at the Locarno Film Festival and other film festivals. Rugilė is currently developing a work with the working title Beauty is a Winner, Winner is a Queen.
NAC Residencies are co-funded by Lithuanian Council for Culture.