Nida Doctoral School "Smoke and Mirrors - Staged Arguments and the Legitimation of Artistic Research" is starting

Published on Sunday, 18 October 2015 20:02

Vilnius Academy of Arts (VAA) and Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture (Aalto University) are starting a partnership by establishing Nida Doctoral School. It is a non-degree doctoral program at Nida Art Colony, Neringa, Lithuania.

The first session will commence on the 19th and continue until the 25th of October, 2015. It will be an intensive course and public performative evening themed “Smoke and Mirrors – Staged Arguments and the Legitimation of Artistic Research.”

If science is a fairytale that is hard to disbelieve (Bruno Latour), then scientific research is nothing but scripting fiction. What's more, the latter is the domain of art. Be it truthful deceit, legitimate hocus-pocus, or real fiction, such a story requires a great deal of creativity and knowledge in carrying out such a persuasion. The persuasion, co-curated by Julijonas Urbonas and Justė Kostikovaitė, will be carried out at the inaugural courses of the Nida Doctoral School.

Nida Doctoral School has selected the following doctoral students to participate in the courses: Cibelle Bastos (Royal College of Art), Federica Bueti (Royal College of Art), Rafael Dernbach (University of Cambridge, Department of German & Dutch), Joanna Fiduccia (University of California, Department of Art History), Marina Noronha (Aaalto University), Liene Jakobsone (Art Academy of Latvia, Department of Design), Annelie Nederberg (University of Surrey, Department of Musical Composition), Soren Rosenbak (The Swedish Faculty for Design Research and Research Education, and Umeå Institute of Design - Umeå University), Dovilė Tumpytė ((Vilnius Academy of Arts, Doctoral Studies), Tomas Martišauskis (Vilnius Academy of Arts, Doctoral Studies),  Darius Žiūra (Vilnius Academy of Arts, Doctoral Studies).

The one-week courses will feature:
 
Dr. Piersandra Di Matteo (University of Bologna), dr. Timothy Ingold (University of Aberdeen), Ingo Niermann (novelist, writer and artist, based in Basel and Berlin), dr. Stephen Wright (European School of Visual Arts), artist and critical designer Julijonas Urbonas (Vilnius Academy of Arts), dr. Vytautas Michelkevičius (Vilnius Academy of Arts).

Full programme and description is available here.

The courses will have the privilege of “warming up” the second building of the Nida Art Colony. The building is specially designed and built for intensive courses and residencies organised by the Nida Doctoral School. On the 23rd of October public performances-lecture evening will run featuring Linda Stupart (UK), Olivia Erlanger (US) among others.

The project is funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture, Ministry of Culture of Lithuanian Republic and Goethe-Institut Vilnius.

Contact:
Curator of the Nida Doctoral School
Justė Kostikovaitė
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