Staying in Nida August – October are: collaborative framework ,Bruch‘-, artist Kimberley Beach, graphic designer and artist Mila Kostianà, artists Ignė Narbutaitė and Ieva Kotryna Ski, writer and researcher Laima Kreivytė, artist Sidsel Ladegaard, researchers Blanca Valdes and Natalie Novik as part of the Nida Doctoral School Residency, researcher and designer Berilsu Tarcan and artist Annie Johansson as part of the Weavers' Residency, photographer Thomas Steineder as part of the collaboration with AIR – ARTIST IN RESIDENCE Niederösterreich residency exchange, and Anna Dovhan as part of the ongoing collaboration with Artists at Risk.
The residency of ,Bruch‘- is funded by the Goethe Institut, the Weavers’ Residency is funded by the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture.
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,Bruch’- is a collaborative framework for research and production across theatre, art and academia.
Kimberley Beach lives and works in London. Her practice is an exploration in the artificial dichotomy of hard and soft power that exists within a capitalist society. Beach looks at how situational subjectivities, the political landscape of Britain and the contemporary discourse on personal and political persons within a wider fragmented society are formed through cultural, sociological, neo-liberal and biopolitical frameworks; with the wider purpose of questioning how our bodies and minds are moulded, restricted and managed through structural approaches to labour, class, time, space and citizenship. She completed an MA in Fine Art Media at the Slade School of Fine Art (2018) after previously completing studies at the University of Westminster (2015) and the Northern School of Art (2012). Beach is one of the contributors of the book Making Respectable Women (2021).
Mila Kostianá is a designer and artist mainly based in Kyiv. She works on projects at the intersection of ecology, decolonial, and queer studies. Mila is interested in how the layers of information can create new visual languages where the spectator becomes a researcher of the subject. As a designer and visual researcher she has worked with Dnipro Center for Contemporary Culture, Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center, Nida Art Colony of the Vilnius Academy of Arts, Minor Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, among others.
Ignė Narbutaitė is a video maker, film and video editor from Vilnius. As an editor she works on feature films, documentaries, artist videos, music videos and TV documentaries. This experience with different formats and genres helps her to keep an eye on the dynamic world of moving image practices, allowing her to look at footage from different perspectives.
Ieva Kotryna Ski is an artist based in Paris. Her practice includes working with documentary film forms, text and audiovisual installations. Exploring the materiality of the digital image, her work often questions our relationship to the ever-changing environment. Whether it is people scattered across cities, Taiwanese forests or sinkhole caves, Ski is always in search of systems of connection in fractured landscapes. As a video artist, Ski often contributes to other artists’ works, performances and plays.
Laima Kreivytė, based in Vilnius, is an artist, curator, writer and lecturer at Vilnius Academy of Arts. Kreivytė curated the Lithuanian pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennale in 2009 and the permanent collection displayed at the National Gallery of Art in Vilnius. Kreivytė has published books on poetry: Sapfo skai(s)tykla, Artumo aritmetika, catalogues of Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė and Kęstutis Zapkus’ work, and has participated in exhibitions with the artist collective, Cooltūristės.
Sidsel Ladegaard lives and works in Berlin. She studied Fine Arts at the Berlin University of the Arts, where she received her degree in 2018. She has worked at the Danish Art Workshops in Copenhagen, the San Cataldo artist residency in Scala, Italy, the Fundación Valparaiso, Mojácar, Spain and the Danish Institute in Athens. Her work was recently shown in the exhibitions ‘in der Nähe’, Salon am Moritzplatz, Berlin (2023); ‘In Relation to – Junge Bildhauerei aus Deutschland’, Galerie im Volkspark, Halle (Saale) (2022); ‘Working Titel’, Heit, Berlin (2021); ‘Sirene – Goldrausch 2020’, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien.
Blanca Valdes lives and works in London. She is currently a British-Chilean PhD candidate at the Royal College of Art, and previously studied architecture at the Universidad Catolica de Chile. For 5 years, she worked on housing and hotel projects in Chilean Patagonia, using mechanised wood to assemble buildings in remote areas. She is currently studying the eucalyptus plantations in the south of Chile and their migration history.
Natalie Novik is based in Gothenburg. She is a spatial practitioner, researcher and educator working in the transdisciplinary field. Her practice revolves around topics of urban commoning, collective care, otherness and belonging. Through her work she addresses how multiple subjectivities can be embodied in the spaces we inhabit. For several years she has worked as an urban planner and since 2018 she has run a studio that focuses on developing interactive collaborative processes and dialogues for urban planning projects. She holds a master's degree in architecture and urban planning from Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, and is currently conducting a PhD in artistic research at HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design in Gothenburg, where her project lies in the field of critical spatial practice.
Berilsu Tarcan is based in Trondheim, Norway, and is a researcher, designer and maker. Her interests include textiles, material culture, and decolonial as well as posthuman theories. She studied industrial design and has previously worked in academia in Turkey. Since 2020, Tarcan has been a practice-based PhD candidate at NTNU, Norway. Her PhD project aims to understand different agencies through the lens of materials, motifs and geographies. She is exploring felting – a traditional way of making artefacts that is employed by nomadic people (such as Yoruks) – as a means to incorporate traditional/indigenous knowledge into more-than-human frameworks, as intruders to human-centrism in design. Her work has been exhibited and presented on platforms such as Young Balkan Designers (2016), DRS (2022), and CA2RE (2021, 2022), among others.
Annie Johansson lives and works as an artist in Gothenburg. In 2014, she completed a master’s degree in textile art at HDK-Valand Academy of Art and Design, University of Gothenburg. In 2019, she was awarded a scholarship at IASPIS in Stockholm. Together with artist Andreas Engman she manages Temporary Stabilisations, a studio and platform for contemporary art in the Gamlestan district of Gothenburg. Annie has exhibited at venues including Fiberspace in Stockholm, SOFT galleri in Oslo and Gustavsbergs Konsthall in Gustavsberg. In 2023 Annie was awarded The Nordic Award in Textiles.
Thomas Steineder lives and works in Vienna and Lower Austria in the extended field of photography. He is currently working on a series called ‘decisive gesture’, creating analogue photographs that explore photographic production as a physical imprint of the body and as an expanded concept of mark-making, treating the analogue image as a physical representation of an embodied experience. Last year he published the book Algorithmic Walking with edition Fotohof in Salzburg.
Anna Dovhan is a visual and sound artist from Lviv, Ukraine. She studies various artistic practices in search of her artistic language and is driven by a desire to explore her childhood and adolescence to find answers to her internal conflicts. She holds a BA in Contemporary Art Practices from the Lviv National Academy of Arts. For the last year, she has been working on the project Little Elephants, which explores the line of demarcation between reality and fantasy through the image of fictional elephants as a guide to the world of imagination: why do we want to escape in our imaginations, are we allowed to run there, and how long can we hide?
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