Nida Art Colony of the Vilnius Academy of Arts
E. A. Jonušo g. 3
Nida LT-93127
Vilnius Academy of Arts (VAA) and Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture (Aalto University) are starting a partnership by establishing Nida Doctoral School. It is a non-degree doctoral program at Nida Art Colony (NAC, www.nidacolony.lt), Neringa, Lithuania.
The first session will commence on the 19th and continue until the 25th of October, 2015. It will be an intensive course themed “Smoke and Mirrors – Staged Arguments and the Legitimation of Artistic Research.”
If science is a fairytale that is hard to disbelieve (Latour), then scientific research is nothing but scripting fiction. What’s more, the latter is the domain of art. Be it truthful deceit, legitimate hocus-pocus, or real fiction, such a story requires a great deal of creativity and knowledge in carrying out such a persuasion. The persuasion, co-curated by Julijonas Urbonas and Justė Kostikovaitė, will be carried out at the inaugural courses of the Nida Doctoral School.
Participants
Nida Doctoral School has selected the following doctoral students to participate in the courses:
Cibelle Bastos – Royal College of Art
Federica Bueti – Royal College of Art
Rafael Dernbach – University of Cambridge, Department of German & Dutch)
Joanna Fiduccia – University of California, Department of Art History
Marina Noronha – Aaalto University
Liene Jakobsone – Art Academy of Latvia, Department of Design
Annelie Nederberg – University of Surrey, Department of Musical Composition
Soren Rosenbak – The Swedish Faculty for Design Research and Research Education, and Umeå Institute of Design – Umeå University
Dovilė Tumpytė – Vilnius Academy of Arts, Doctoral Studies
Darius Žiūra – Vilnius Academy of Arts, Doctoral Studies
Speakers
The courses will have the privilege of “warming up” the second building of the Nida Art Colony. The building is specially designed and built for intensive courses and residencies organised by the Nida Doctoral School. On the 23rd of October performances-lecture evening will run featuring Linda Stupart (UK), Olivia Erlanger (US) among others.