The final programme of ResArtis Regional Meeting is ready!

Published on Friday, 26 September 2014 09:42

ResArtis Regional Meeting starts in less than a week and NAC is glad to announce the final programme  of the meeting (PDF to download). Abstracts and Bios are here to download.

The meeting, which focuses on the questions of the role residencies have in forming local communities, as well as in the artworld, in the education and (artistic) research community; on what is the reputation and influence of the residencies, what are the possible models of ethics of host-guest or curator; on the diversity of artistic production in the residency (or residency results) and its evaluation.

The meeting that will take place in Vilnius and Nida as its organized by Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts along with the ResArtis, has, among aforementioned goals, also those to expose a rather unknown region: former Soviet Union, presenting it to the Nordic partners and participants from other parts of the world. Thus the target groups of the meeting are the Baltic countries, Central Asia countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan), Eastern partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine), Nordic countries and Russian Federation. 

Among invited speakers of the meeting are:

- ResArtis board members Ika Sienkiewicz-Nowacka, Karol Frühauf, Eliza Roberts, Lea O'Loughlin, Jean-Yves Coffre, Mark Vennegoor, Lillian Fellmann;

- Hannele Kolsio (RaumArs A-I-R, FI);

- Konstantin Lom (Akademie Schloss Solitude, DE);

- Viktor Misiano (Moscow Art Maganize, RU);

- Alex Meszmer Muller (Visarte/Zeitgarte, CH);

- Nini Palavandishvili (GeoAir, GE);

- Stefan Rusu (Dushanbe Art Ground, TJ);

and many other actors from the artistic residencies field, engaged in it either as residency operators or as artists. 

More information on the whole event to be found in the official ResArtis webpage.