Contemporary Past: tracking a postcard

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Paskelbta: 2012 gegužės 08, Antradienis 13:36

Photo by IP 2011 participant Stefan Asafti

Contemporary Past: tracking a postcard

www.contemporarypast.com

10-24 June 2012

Nida Art Colony of the Vilnius Academy of Arts

www.nidacolony.lt

Vilnius Academy of Arts is organizing the third intensive summer course Contemporary Past. This year it will concentrate on the issue of message transfer in visual arts: How does a piece of art communicate with the viewer? What codes, strategies or methods are used in this communication? Does it matter what the artist wants to say and what the viewer gets? What happens to a coded message while it travels from the artist’s head to that of the viewer? Is it possible to materialize the process of thought through visual signs? Should one avoid or make use of the volatility of meaning and subjective truth? How close can means of visual communication get to those of a language? How to challenge the viewer’s habits of reading visual messages?

The main subject of the course refers to the location of the IP: Nida Art Colony is on the Curonian Spit, which served as a shortcut of the 19th century mail road connecting Koenigsberg and Riga (or Paris, Warsaw and St. Petersburg on the bigger scale). The course links communication by post to communication by visual representation and suggests the participants to reflect on travelling, be it a message travelling from a sender to a receiver, an idea, an object or a person.

Contemporary Past seeks to offer different approaches to the chosen subject: participants will have an opportunity to deepen their knowledge in visual semiotics, to discuss selected art works with their creators, to get to know the history of the old mail route, to watch relevant documentaries and fiction.

The project is fully funded by the LLP/Erasmus Programme. Partner schools of the project are:
- Konstfack (University College of Arts, Crafts and Design), www.konstfack.se
- Art and Design University of Cluj-Napoca, www.uad.ro 
- Finnish Academy of Fine Arts, www.kuva.fi 
- Vilnius Academy of Arts, www.vda.lt 

Five advanced students and a tutor from each partner school can attend the course. It is conducted by tutors from partner schools and guest speakers (artists and art researchers, who present their personal strategies and insight into communication by means of visual representation).

Tutors from partner schools:
-    Paivikki Kallio and Caspar Stracke from Finnish Academy of Fine Arts
-    Eugen Moritz from Art and Design University of Cluj-Napoca
-    Sigute Chlebinskaitė from Vilnius Academy of Arts 
-    Ronald Jones from Konstfack

Guest speakers:
-    Susanne Husse, curator, art researcher, DE
-    Falke Pisano, artist, NL (http://www.frieze.com/issue/review/falke_pisano)
-    Gintaute Zemaityte, Vilnius university, art researcher, LT (semiotics, culture studies, philosophy, analysis of visual discourses)
-    Marta Vosyliute, artist, LT (http://www.marta.lt)
-    Nijole Strakauskaite, senior researcher at the Baltic Sea Region History and Archaeology Institute of Klaipeda University, LT

More info on tutors and guest speakers will be available at www.contemporarypast.com soon.

Contemporary Past consists of theoretical lectures, discussions, workshops, guided field trips and independent research. The first week is devoted to lectures discussions and field trips; the second – to individual research and workshops. Public review and discussion of created works will take place on the final weekend. All student participants are awarded 5 ECTS credits.


Curator and coordinator: Rasa Antanaviciute, PhD Candidate at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, main interest – social history of urban planning and public art in the first half of the 20th century, executive director of Nida Art Colony, Šis el.pašto adresas yra apsaugotas nuo šiukšlų. Jums reikia įgalinti JavaScript, kad peržiūrėti jį.

Co-curator: Ulrike Gerhardt, PhD Candidate at the Academy of Fine Arts Hamburg, main interest – historical imaginary in contemporary video art, Šis el.pašto adresas yra apsaugotas nuo šiukšlų. Jums reikia įgalinti JavaScript, kad peržiūrėti jį.

Administrator: Egle Indriunaite, Šis el.pašto adresas yra apsaugotas nuo šiukšlų. Jums reikia įgalinti JavaScript, kad peržiūrėti jį.