Nida A-I-R in April 2015

Published on Sunday, 19 April 2015 10:01

Elizabeth McTernan, Holly Mclean, Laurie Lax, Živilė Etevičiūtė, Ida Divinzenz, Amy Hancock-Martin. Photo by Linas Ramanauskas

In April artists arrived to Nida Colony: Laurie Lax (UK), Holly Mclean (UK), Elizabeth McTernan (US/ DE), Ida Divinzenz (AT), Amy Hancock-Martin (UK).

Photo by Linas Ramanauskas

Elizabeth McTernan is an American artist based in Berlin. She explores different phenomena across scientific fields with an artist-research methodology. Elizabeth has gone to the Gobi Desert to test the distance a voice travels when making different sounds. In Odense Fjord in Denmark, she took measurements of the coastline of an unnamed island using parts of her body as measurement tools, and she visited the BIPM near Paris and BESSY in Berlin to investigate the true weight of the kilogram.
In Nida, Elizabeth McTernan will take measurements of the coast of the Curonian Spit at sea level and connect this to experiments to be made high above sea level in the Himalayas this August.

Amy Hancock-Martin, Elizabeth McTernan, Laurie Lax. Photo by Linas Ramanauskas

Laurie Lax is artist from Bristol. In Nida A-I-R she represents an artist collective DFW. The artists from the collective will visit Laurie during her 2 months stay to keep on working on an art project, will be presented at Nida A-I-R Open Studios event in May.
DFW (Dowsing for Water) is a group of artists: Laurie Lax, Amy Hancock-Martin, Alice Vandeleur-Boorer, Azusa Chareteau, Matthew Denniss, Ben Socrates. Dowsing for water is seen as an analogy for artistic practice. DFW chooses one topic to work on and with different tools seeks for and finds their goals in an exhibition-installation form.

Photo by Linas Ramanauskas

Holly Mclean suggest an ironical viewpont on a great Western narrations, deconstructing them in her films. Political and social themes are one of the main topics in Mclean artistic practise. Holly is interested in a process of film creation. She sees it as a theatrical action and makes this aspect the core of her films.
In Nida Holly Maclean will shoot Nida landscape to use the material in her ongoing film projects.

Photo by Linas Ramanauskas

Ida Divinzenz is a political activist, artist from Vienna. She is participating in festivals of political art, writes on politically important topics and makes radio broadcasts. Ida is also active as artist, works mainly with paper. She creates huge paper sculptures, which she uses in her performances as interaction objects.
Ida Divinzenz will explore the topic of Lithuanian political and social life.