(Per)forming Scapes 2018

Published on Tuesday, 10 July 2018 12:38

 

(Per)forming Scapes

 

20 July–31 August, 2018
Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts
E. A. Jonušo st. 3, Nida

The exhibition is a part of 22nd International Thomas Mann festival 

 

Participating artists: Lina Lapelytė, Ona Lozuraitytė & Petras Išora, Špela Petrič (Slovenia), Anna Romanenko & Björn Kühn (Germany)

Curated by Vytautas Michelkevičius

 

The landscape of Curonian Spit is (per)formed, phytocracy is established in Neringa, the exhibition halls become gyms, it is discovered that the local mentality is formed by constant work in a specific landscape and traditional singing turns into an animalistic snarl and rumble.

It is not an art exhibition, but a visual, audial, performative and interactive narration about the Curonian Spit, where contemporary art serves as a platform for artists and researchers of various areas to meet and present their points of view. 

As from May, VAA Nida Art Colony and entire area of the Curonian Spit has turned into a testing ground and a research laboratory where exhibition participants were discussing the relationship between human and nature on various scales: from vast geological landscape to symbiosis with smallest plants, from park and other regulations to psychophysical provisions. Therefore, here meets landscape architecture, geography, biology, sculpture, work ethics, choreography, new media, and performative practices.

 

Download exhibition guide (PDF)

 

Exhibition produces and performs new landscapes, soundscapes, phytoscapes, spitscapes, movementscapes, workscapes, not to forget the multiplicity of meanings of the word „scape“: a leafless peduncle rising from the ground (Botany), the basal segment of an insect's antenna (Entomology), the shaft of a column (Architecture). The landscape is (per)formed, it becomes perforated, bent and cracked. In order to comprehend it, various zooming, reducing, and grasping tools or roleplaying between humans and non-humans are applied. In it, the spectator becomes a participant, able to experience the landscape with one‘s body, interact with plants and modify one‘s mentality by performing choreographic movements.

If entire national park of the Curonian Spit is an exhibition, how would you perform to a tree or a lichen? How can mentality be developed physically relating to a place and solidified into a monu-mentality? At what point the repetitive movements for carrying out a task turn into a dance? Did you ever try to step on the landscape to see your direct impact on it? How the time slows down and space changes from plants point of view? To whom really belongs the agency in this interrelated web of nature-culture?

All works, research, and experiments were created at the residency of VAA Nida Art Colony for this exhibition.

 

Conversations with participating artists
Anna Romanenko and Björn Kühn
Špela Petrič 

 

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Architects
Ona Lozuraitytė & Petras Išora

Graphics & Layout
Laura Grigaliūnaitė

Team
Rasa Antanavičiūtė, Skaistė Marčienė, Kęstutis Minderis, Julija Navarskaitė, 
Linas Ramanauskas, Karolina Sadlauskaitė

Guides
Giedrė Malūkaitė, Karolina Tomkevičiūtė, Austėja Tavoraitė
Gabrielė Liaugminaitė, Margarita Žigutytė

We thank to all the contributors and
Irena Daujotaitė, Vasilijus Safronovas, Jonas Volungevičius, Nikita Dobrotin,
Lina Dikšaitė, Monika Kalinauskaitė, Tadas Karpavičius, Glabis Niktorius,
Aleksandra Fominaitė, Andreas Rodenbeck,
National Park of Curonian Spit, Lithuanian Sea Museum, Neringa Municipality

 

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REVIEWS & REPORTAGES

Tomass Parups, „(Per)forming Scapes at Nida Art Colony“, in: www.arterritory.com, 2018

Margus Tamm, „The Geopolitics of the Sublime“, in: KUNST.EE, 2018, Nr. 3

 

Goda Aksamitauskaitė, „Žmogus ir gamta Kuršių nerijoje“, in: Literatūra ir menas, 2018, Nr. 19 (LT)

Dalia Aleksandravičiūtė, „Performuoti peizažus ir ne tik“, in: m-puslapiai.7md.lt, 2018 (LT)

Eglė Mikalajūnė, „Nuo kolosalumo link integralumo. Paroda „Perfor(m)uoti peizažai“ Nidos meno kolonijoje“, in: www.artnews.lt, 2018 (LT)

Denisas Kolomickis, „Utenos, Nidos ir Vilniaus parodos: nuo scenos maištininkų iki perkuriamų peizažų“, in: www.lrt.lt, 2018. 1:56 - 5:28 (LT)

Austėja Kuckienė, „Ryto allegro 2018-07-27 08:10“, in: www.lrt.lt, 2018. 54:25 - 1:32:37 (LT)

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PHOTO REPORTAGE

 

 

Photos by Laurynas Skeisgiela