"Only the expanse of snow could be seen, white as this page"

Published on Tuesday, 16 July 2013 05:42

Nida Art Colony Log no.4  (PDF) is finally out, introduced to its readers with a white front page. The theme of the log is "Taking Time", it sums up the events of summer - autumn 2012. Here one will find texts by Bojana Panevska, Jurij Dobriakov, Toni Ledentsa, as well as texts and portfolios by NAC former residents Luca Diffuse, Henning Lundkvist, Steven Connor, Eva-Fiore Kovačovsky, Franziska Nast, Stephen Berens and Elizabeth Bryant, Jennifer Schmidt. There's twice as much in the Log, be our guest to read it, take it out to the beach or open the pages before you fall to sleep, an inspiration is just around the corner (of a page).

All the issues are here as PDFs. Magazine is also printed in 1000 copies.

"Thus, trying to define what artists do in Nida residency while taking "unconditional time", we would be more inclined to say that they engage in artistic research rather than produce artworks."

- Vytautas Michelkevičius

"Putting nearly two years of activities together makes quite a bit of experience. After all this, is the Colony not a new institution anymore? Almost not, but give us some more time (let us take time). Slow motion (in silence, but this is too luxurious) has so many advantages."

- Rasa Antanavičiūtė

"Sand is not only temporary, it is also the most temporised form of matter. It is the image or allegory of time, shifting, yet unshiftable. It seems a compiling of the minced, mounded years that go into its making, and grains of sand imitate the elementary atoms of time, moment upon patterning moment. Sand is featureless, without joints or divisions, even though it is nothing but division all the way down."

- Steven Connor