Polish artist Alicja Bielawska is focused on the materiality of everyday life and our relationships between objects and interiors. Although the objects she makes, usually from textile, metal elements, wood or modelling clay, do resemble things from everyday life, Bielawska often interferes with their proportions and scale. During the residency in Nida Art Colony Alicja worked on connections between sculpture and performance, introducing performance to her practice. She together Lithuanian artist Kristina Aglaja Skaldina (contemporaty dance and body-movement therapy) worked on performance, which will be presented during open studios. Alicja Bielawska will open an exhibition on 4^th of May in the project space “Sodu 4” (Sodų str. 4, Vilnius). Alicja Bielawska’s residency is organized in cooperation with Culture.pl and A-I-R Laboratory, CCA Ujazdowski Castle.

 

 An Austrian artist Maria A. Maeser is taking part in residency exchange programme with Vorarlberg land. Maria is fascinated by the aesthetics of the world of science, she learns from the structured world of communication & research, and applies the underlying concepts to other fields. During her stay in Nida she will be working on romanticism, exploring methods of some of the most influential artists and subsequently founders of the romantic era.

 

Australia based artist Lynette Smith is interested in ambiguity ‒ how pervasive it is and how it shapes our actions and our experience of the world. Mostly, we don’t notice the quiet, unconscious effort going on in the background to stabilise meaning, even though it’s an effort that makes action and experience possible in the first place. In Nida, Lynette will be looking at, looking for, signs of instability and inconstancy in the country around her, and working on ways to put video and words into relation to one another, so that the effort is impossible to ignore.

 

 

An artistic practice of Sara Wolfert (Sweden) focuses on narration, script-writing and archive or appropriation in various forms.  She frequently uses historical or real life events as starting points for fictional elaborations exploring collaboration, multiple authorship and questions of access and agency in relation to public or semi-public space. Sara and her colleague Anne-Liis Kogan (EE/NO) were collaborating with 9th grade students of Neringa high school. The artists held workshops dedicated to drama and scriptwriting, reading and recording. The topic of the workshop was high school drama, crime fiction resembling Agatha Christie's Poirot, and other genres.