Camargo Foundation
1 Av. Maurice Jermini
13260 Cassis
France
As part of the Season of Lithuania in France 2024, the Camargo Foundation and Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts (NAC) are collaborating on a cross-sectoral research residency programme that focuses on human-built environments and brings together two coastal locations: the post-industrial Calanques and the cultural landscape of the Curonian Spit.
At the interface of sea and land, at the northern and southern edges of Europe, on the shores of the Mediterranean and Baltic seas, the Camargo Foundation and NAC operate as art residency spaces. They welcome artists, researchers and thinkers year-round, and are dedicated to fostering research, process-based, transdisciplinary practices and encouraging exchanges through collaborative projects that explore the intersections of art, research and culture.
Over the course of 10 weeks, the Camargo Foundation is hosting: architect and researcher, Indrė Umbrasaitė; writer, poet, and dramaturg, Vaiva Grainytė; and artist researcher and PhD candidate at Vilnius Academy of Arts, Simona Rukuižaitė. In exchange and conversation with fellow residents, the Calanques National Park, and the Institut national supérieur d’enseignement artistique Marseille-Méditerranée – INSEAMM, they follow their research and work inquiries, observing the myriad of transformations affecting coastal environments.
Coast, Land & the Sea Interdependent focuses on marine and coastal protected areas managed by the Calanques National Park and the impact that the management of terrestrial landscapes has on marine life and biodiversity. Like the cultural landscape of the Curonian Spit, where forests were planted 200 years ago to serve as infrastructure, the marine environments of national parks can also be seen as cultural landscapes, shaped by decisions taken from the land, by humans. In 2022, the Calanques National Park delivered France’s first seascape plan, a valuable tool to help develop strategies and actions to support the regulatory processes that have an impact on the protected seascapes.
Field Research Activities & Public Events
Guided tour along the Route des Crêtes by the Calanques National Park
11 September 2024
with Magali Veyrat (Head of interpretation and socio-cultural projects) and Mathieu Imbert (Head of East Coast and High Sea Area) from the Calanques National Park
Fall Open Studio
26 October 2024
with Simona Rukuižaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, Indrė Umbrasaitė & other residents from the Camargo Foundation
Resident session
30 October 2024
Work in progress presentations and workshops with Indrė Umbrasaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, Simona Rukuižaitė
Marine field trip
5 November 2024
Guided tour by Mathieu Imbert, Head of East Coast and High Sea Area, Calanques National Park with Simona Rukuižaitė, Vaiva Grainytė, Indrė Umbrasaitė & Lara Tabet
Workshop Le Moindre Geste – Les Ateliers de Recherche et de Création (ARC)
6 November 2024
Workshop by Simona Rukuižaitė within the framework of ARC (Les Ateliers de Recherche et de Création) at INSEAMM, Marseille
Research Visit
10–11 December 2024
Visit and introduction to Camargo Foundation, Calanques National Park, INSEAMM, Marseille for members of Vilnius Academy of Arts management
Research Visit
17–18 December 2024
Visit and introduction to Camargo Foundaton, Calanques National Park, INSEAMM, Marseille to members of Vilnius Academy of Arts management and Curonian Spit National Park
Work Session
18 December 2024
with representatives from the Camargo Foundation, Calanques National Park, INSEAMM (Marseille), Vilnius Academy of Arts, and Curonian Spit National Park to collaborate and discuss interests and possibilities for further developing the residency programme
Residents
Selection Process & Jury
The three residents were selected through a two-stage process. In the first stage, participants were nominated and invited to apply for the residency by artists Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas, researcher Eglė Rindzevičiūtė, Cultural Attaché at the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania to the French Republic Auste Zdančiūtė, curator Valentinas Klimašauskas, Head of the Doctoral Programme in Art History and Theory Dr. Julija Fomina, and Head of the Doctoral Programme in Art Prof. Dr. Vytautas Michelkevičius, with each nominator proposing four to six individuals or artists’ collectives.
The final selection committee consisted of Inge Linder-Gaillard, Director of the Marseille-Méditerranée School of Art and Design; Prof. Ieva Skauronė, Rector of Vilnius Academy of Arts; Magali Veyrat, Head of Interpretation and Socio-Cultural Projects at Parc national des Calanques; Julie Chénot, Camargo’s Executive Director; and Egija Inzule, Curator and Director of Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts.
Partners & Funding
The Calanques National Park, the Curonian Spit National Park, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Marseille-Méditerranée National Higher Institute for Artistic Education – INSEAMM
Coast, Land & the Sea Interdependent is part of the Season of Lithuania in France 2024.
The Season of Lithuania in France is organised by the Lithuanian Cultural Institute and the Institut français, in close collaboration with the Embassy of Lithuania in France, the French Embassy in Lithuania and the Institut français de Lituanie, under the aegis of the French French Ministries of Europe and Foreign Affairs and of Culture, and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania.
The project is funded by: The Lithuanian Culture Institute
Project organisers: Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts and Camargo Foundation
