A talk in Berlin On Hosting and Displacing in Nida Art Colony (LT): Residency as an Agent of (Critical) Tourism for Curators and Artists
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- Paskelbta: 2013 kovo 23, Šeštadienis 12:40
In Berlin a projectspace uqbar is organizing in cooperation with LoBe projectspace a talk and screening "On Hosting and Displacing in Nida Art Colony (LT): Residency as an Agent of (Critical) Tourism for Curators and Artists" by Vytautas Michelkevičius (including screening).
Talk and screening , Tuesday, March 26, 2013, 7p.m.
Lo-Be, Schererstraße 7, 13347 Berlin-Wedding
Following up on the issues of Transient Spaces - The Tourist Syndrome and its Summer Camp in Palanga uqbar is organizing in cooperation with Lo-Be projectspace a talk by Lithuanian curator Vytautas Michelkevičius on hosting and displacing at Nida Art Colony in Lithuania.
Nida Art Colony is an interdisciplinary and experimental department of Vilnius Academy of Arts with international artists-in-residence programme, which hosts ~ 50 artists per year from 1 to 4 months, mostly with grants, and an education as well as a workshop centre. It is located remotely (5 hours’ drive from Vilnius) in the forest next to the sandy beach of the Baltic Sea. Living and working at a touristic and UNESCO World Heritage site raises a lot of questions: How to be discursive and critical in a resort on the Baltic Sea? How do artists develop their sited practices in a remote location far from the openings-bars-curators-meetings context? The talk by Vytautas Michelkevičius will focus on question like these and the forthcoming Inter-format symposium on critical tourism, site-specificity and the post-romantic condition in May 2013.
For more information on Nida Art Colony see: www.nidacolony.lt
More at www.lo-be.net
On Hosting and Displacing... focuses on the specificity of remote, picturesque contexts dominated by landscapes (both rural or alpine/marine) that are being “regenerated” today through touristic and cultural policies, and will question critical models for artistic intervention in such environments. Sharing experiences between two institutions, Nida Art Colony and Fondation Chateau Mercier (FCM) and Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais (ECAV) à Sierre – the project will create a temporary, itinerant colony of art and cultural producers will circulate and exchange between Nida and Sierre between 2012 and 2013. The project will be documented by a publication.
Project is supported by Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia, Ministry of Culture of Lithuanian Republic, Nordic-Baltic mobility programme for culture.
«A cooperation project in the framework of the exchange programme with Central and Eastern Europe, initiated by the liaison office of the Swiss Arts Council Pro Helvetia in Warsaw.» www.prohelvetia.pl
