For a year now at NAC it's DISCIPLINE

Published on Thursday, 19 March 2015 10:10

Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts together with partner institutions – Office for Contemporary Art Norway, Nordic Artists’ Centre Dale, Skaftfell Center for Visual Art and Ars Communis Residency Centre – are going to implement a new international creative co-production project DISCIPLINE TODAY. RESIDENCY EXCHANGE AND EXHIBITIONS.

Photo by Linas Ramanauskas

The project aims to stimulate the dissemination of professional art in the regions of Lithuania and to build mutual interest in Norwegian, Icelandic and Lithuanian contemporary visual art and culture.

The project will focus on the contemporary understanding and application of the phenomenon of discipline. The project intends to go beyond the interpretation of discipline as a destructive force. It rather regards discipline as a voluntary self restriction chosen by contemporary individuals as a constructive way to deal with anxiety which is caused by unlimited freedom. The project is curated by a Norwegian and a Lithuanian curator.

Two-month long artistic residencies (one in Iceland, three in Norway and five in Lithuania) will be organised during the project. Newly produced art works will be presented in exhibitions in Seydisfjordur (IS), Vilnius, Nida, Žeimiai (LT) and Oslo (NO). Artists and curators will attend a joint seminar with invited experts, meet with Vilnius Academy of Arts students and exhibitions’ visitors. Participating artists from Iceland, Norway and Lithuania will be selected after an open call and/or invited by the curators. The call will be announced/invitations will be sent in early April 2015. Project’s timeframe is from April 2015 to April 2016.

The project is partly financed from the programme Promotion of Diversity in Culture and Arts within Eurpean Cultural Heritage under the European Economic Area (EEA) Financial Mechanism 2009-2014.

For more information, please, contact Executive Director of Nida Art Colony of VAA Rasa Antanavičiūtė at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.