Empowering Tools
- Published on Saturday, 01 January 2022 12:43
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Empowering Tools participants at NAC: Reyhaneh Mirjahani, Laura Garbštienė, curator Egija Inzule, Gabrielė Gervickaitė, Jurga Daubaraitė, RIBOCA education manager Sandra Ķempele, Johanes 'Mo'ong' Santoso Pribadi, and Jonas Žukauskas. Photo by Nendrė Žilinskaitė.
Empowering Tools
Empowering Tools is a residency collaboration between Rīga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA), Helsinki International Artist Programme (HIAP), and Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts (NAC) during 2022. The project is aimed at artists, architects, designers, musicians, educators, and practitioners from other disciplines interested in engaging in the fields of art education and mediation. The purpose of the project is to develop learning kits for the Riboca Repository of Knowledge online platform that can be freely used by teachers, pupils, young adults, students and parents. The residency period runs from January to March 2022 and marks the completion of the first phase of the project resulting in a compendium of learning materials that will be developed, edited and translated and published on the online platforms of RIBOCA, HIAP and NAC in autumn 2022. The ambition is for the learning materials to be made available in Latvian, Lithuanian, Finnish, Russian, and English. NAC has produced eight learning kits in collaboration with Laura Garbštiene, Gabrielė Gervickaitė, Reyhaneh Mirjahani, Neringa Forest Architecture, Johanes 'Mo'ong' Santoso Pribadi, Harmony and Nicolas Buzzi. The programme at NAC is curated by Egija Inzule with support from the NAC and RIBOCA teams, Anton Shramkov, and Daura Polonskytė.
Fairies, from the installation I’m a bark beetle, 2021. Photo by Laura Garbštienė.
Learning kit: Making Colours Laura Garbštienė’s recent practice encompasses temporal art forms and reflections on natural phenomena, ecological awareness, domesticity, and the decline of rural life. Since 2013 Garbštienė has lived in Šklėriai, a small village near Dzūkija National Park, with a small herd of Skudde sheep, where she promotes spinning as an anti-capitalist movement to unite people from diverse cultural backgrounds. In 2017 she started Verpėjos (The Spinners) – an artist-run initiative to research and discuss rural traditional lifestyle and nature preservation on a local and global scale. In summer 2021 NAC hosted Garbštienė’s ‘Shepherds’ Residency’ project as part of Neringa Forest Architecture programme.
From the series Memory skin by Gabrielė Gervickaitė, 2020.
Learning kit: Patterns of the Everyday
Gabrielė Gervickaitė is a member of the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association based in Vilnius and is currently a doctoral candidate in visual arts at Vilnius Art Academy. In addition to their artistic practice, Gervickaitė is a curator and works in socially-engaged arts education. In their work Gervickaitė uses their body as archival material and studies the impact of the construction of normalcy, particularly in contemporary media, social and political situations. Gervickaitė’s works have most recently been presented at Pärnufotofest, Positions art fair in Berlin, Austrian Cultural Forum in New York, Katzen Arts Center in Washington DC among others.
Experiment with PVC pipes, Teater Garasi, Yogyakarta.
Johanes ‘Mo’ong’ Santoso Pribadi
Learning kit: Making Sound-Music
Johanes ‘Mo’ong’ Santoso Pribadi is an experimental music composer and instrument builder. Pribadi holds a Masters degree in music composition from the Indonesian Institute of the Arts, Surakarta. Mo’ong has been involved with a variety of national and international projects in many different genres of music, and with multidisciplinary projects within modern dance, modern theatre, contemporary puppet theatre, installation art, and performance art, among them the International Rostrum of Composers in 2015. Mo’ong’s recent works include the Limbah Berbunyi project, the Raja Kirik Duo among others.
A Monument of the City to Build, 2021, a process-driven socially engaged artistic project in collaboration with Azadeh E Zaghi
Learning kits: A Discussion on Civic Participation A Monument of the City to Build
Reyhaneh Mirjahani is a visual artist and artistic researcher based in Gothenburg and Tehran. Mirjahani holds an MFA in Fine Art from HDK-Valand, and a BFA Degree in Sculpture from University of Tehran and is currently developing her curatorial practice at the CuratorLab program at Konstfack. Mirjahani’s artistic practice and research focuses on the notion of individual and collective agency in socio-political participation and the disposition of ethics in this discourse. Mirjahani’s recent projects include An Experiment on Agency, From Avoidance to Resistance: Exploring the Role of the ‘Bubble’ through Narrative Practices, A Monument Of The City To Build, and Gullbrandstorp: för Framtidsbild 2050.
Photos by Jonas Žukauskas.
Learning kits: A Lesson That Lasts 200 years Timber as a Resource
Jurga Daubaraitė and Jonas Žukauskas are a duo of spatial practitioners currently based in Vilnius. Through architectural, curatorial and research projects they aim to create new relations between societies and their environment, past and future, by seeking to rearticulate architecture across a wider ecology of practices. They were guest editors of the first issue of Forest as a Journal (2021), curated the exhibition The Baltic Material Assemblies at AA Gallery and RIBA in London (2018), and were co-curators of The Baltic Pavilion at the 15th International Architecture Exhibition at the Venice Biennale (2016), and co-editors of The Baltic Atlas published by Sternberg (2016). Among other projects Daubaraitė and Žukauskas are currently working on the Creative Playground and Garden in Vilnius.
Together with Egija Inzule they initiated Neringa Forest Architecture, a research and residency project that investigates the Curonian Spit as a case study in the context of the Baltic and Scandinavian forests, considering it as an entanglement of ecologies, representations, and both colonial and industrial narratives.
Nicolas Buzzi and Harmony, SuspendedGesturesVOLUMES. Photo by Jan Bolomey
Harmony (Martina Andrea Buzzi) and Nicolas Buzzi
Learning kit: Variations of a Paper Organ
Harmony (Martina Andrea Buzzi) lives and works in Zürich in performance and Improvisation music. Buzzi creates phantasmagoric narratives in which facts and fiction merge into personal mythologies. Harmony has performed and exhibited at Kunsthalle Fribourg; Architecture Biennale, São Paolo; The Photographic, UG im Folkwang, Essen; VOLUMES, Kunsthalle, Zürich; Agency of cunnlingus, Les Complices, Zürich; Le Commun, Geneva, among others.
Nicolas Buzzi currently works and lives in Zürich and Frankfurt. Buzzi combines composition with performance practice in order to respond to the specific requirements and possibilities of electronic music, a field that allows a rethinking of the role distribution predominant in western art music. Buzzi treats the instrument's inherent ability to define and shape temporal processes as well as spatiality as a strategy to negotiate historical, cultural ballast. His work has been presented at the Venice Architecture Biennale, the HEK Basel, the HKW Berlin, the Istituto Svizzero, Kampnagel Hamburg, at NUP 2020 Tallinn, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Kunstmuseum Basel, Locarno Film Festival, São Paulo Architecture Biennial, Schauspielhaus Zürich, Taylor Macklin Zürich, ZKM Karlsruhe among others.
Empowering Tools participants at NAC: Gabrielė Gervickaitė, Reyhaneh Mirjahani, and Johanes 'Mo'ong' Santoso Pribadi. Photo by Nendrė Žilinskaitė.
Laura Garbštienė at NAC. Photo by Nendrė Žilinskaitė.
Photo by Nendrė Žilinskaitė.
Empowering Tools participants at NAC: Jurga Daubaraitė and Jonas Žukauskas. Photo by Nendrė Žilinskaitė.
Photo by Nendrė Žilinskaitė.
RIBOCA education manager Sandra Ķempele at NAC. Photo by Nendrė Žilinskaitė.
Empowering Tools participants at NAC: Gabrielė Gervickaitė, Johanes 'Mo'ong' Santoso Pribadi, Reyhaneh Mirjahani, Jurga Daubaraitė, Jonas Žukauskas, Laura Garbštienė, RIBOCA education manager Sandra Ķempele, and curator Egija Inzule. Photo by Nendrė Žilinskaitė.
Participants at HIAP:
multidisciplinary artist and scientist | Helsinki, Finland Learning kit working title: Ferment Radio
digital artist | Kaunas, Lithuania Learning kit working title: Lichen Ways of Knowing
Martina Eddone (in collaboration with Margherita Via) visual designer | Eindhoven, the Netherlands Learning kit working title: Full Voids
visual artists, curators and organisers of cultural and educational events | Groningen, the Netherlands Learning kit working title: ViewPoints (a learning kit based on ‘A Forest’)
The ERASMUS+ project RIBOCA Repository of Knowledge is co-financed by the European Union. The European Commission is not responsible for the content of this publication.
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