Practice as Art and Research

Peer-to-Peer Gathering:
Practice as Art and Research

25–30 August

Nida Art Colony (NAC) of Vilnius Academy of Arts
E. A. Jonušo str. 3
LT-93127 Nida
Lithuania



Instead of the usual Nida Doctoral School format which this year has been postponed due to COVID-19 complications in planning and organising, this is a smaller scale gathering with peer-to-peer exchange focus and sharing of practices both as art and as research. Some tutors have already participated in previous NDS iterations and bring learnings both from them and from their PhD trajectories, exposition and defence procedures. Around dozen participants have 45 min dedicated time to present their practice and get collective feedback as well as receive individual consultation time from their peers. Doctoral candidates are asked to present their practice both as research and art or (art) writing. We also ask to treat presentations not as a formal powerpoint-no-interaction slide shows but to make a presentation with an artefact brought to Nida and use the available inside or outside spaces at NAC.

Research community is an important element in every doctoral studies. The aim of this gathering is to ensure an international and unbiased working environment. NAC as a venue and surrounding site is a great place for community building and in depth-exchanges at the study course table or in the studio, during collective cooking and dining, discussions by the fire or in the sauna, swimming or taking a walk in the forest or dunes with no particular goal.

One of the goals of this gathering is to share and exchange various research cultures and methodologies around the Nordic-Baltic region noticing over time that the differences could be crucial and one could learn a lot from each other. Moreover the duality of practice as art and research needs more discussions. When and how artist & writer practice can be treated as research and how to avoid doing a double dissertation?