Residents of Nida Art Colony are coming back to Nida to produce new works and bring their experiences from different residency periods and seasons to the hybrid body of the show. The theme of the show is not only Nida and the artists’ relationship with it, but also the global context like rising waters and sinking islands, geopolitical tensions as well as accelerating technocratic systems which control us. One of the aims of this residency and the exhibition is to rethink site-specific and locally relevant art, to create place-based pieces in an effort to avoid stereotypes about Nida and Neringa, and instead act upon the global landscape.

The curator Vytautas Michelkevičius says that a hybrid landscape could be seen when you climb on the fresh forest clearing in front of the Colony and see the new panorama – not only the forested dune areas but also 19th and 20th century technologies which made it possible to forest those dunes and form a new terrain. This is when you not only see the horizon of the sea and the sunset, but also start unintentionally thinking about the border and geopolitical tensions between the EU (Lithuania) and Russia (Kaliningrad) if you look on the left. The shores of Sweden, which has already signed an agreement with NATO, are looming in the distance; just a few decades ago they were a dream destination for those who were trying to escape from the USSR with a boat. Then suddenly as you are looking around, electromagnetic wave signals transmit a message into the sensor implanted under your skin, informing you that the level of radiation has suddenly increased, and there is no time to admire the view of the Lukoil D-6 oil platform turning into a blast of fireworks, or to romanticise the landscape of rotating wind turbines.