Nida art colony on the Baltic sea coast: Call for applications

Residency Applications, Contributions and Proposals

Deadline: February 28, 2011

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Keywords: Fluxus sand, the Baltic Sea as a medium, labyrinths of forest paths, smoked fish, solitude, landscape meditation, mind massage, contemplating the ten-meter-high studio space, migrating from water to water, media lab, beaches and breeze, reinventing tradition, creative sunbathing.

Nida Art Colony, the new subdivision of Vilnius Academy of Arts (Lithuania), is opening in March 2011. The principal objective of the Colony is to improve the quality of art education in Lithuania and create favourable conditions for creative contemporary art practices. Simply put, Nida Art Colony is about international and local collaboration, as well as experiments in both art and art education.

Location. Nida Art Colony is situated on the Curonian Spit, which is a 98 km long peninsula separating the Curonian Lagoon and the Baltic Sea. The Curonian Spit is included in the UNESCO World Heritage List as one of the most beautiful and unique cultural landscapes of Europe.

Join the emerging community of artists in a spectacular and inspiring location!

CALL FOR RESIDENCY APPLICATIONS

The Nida Artist-in-residence Programme is intended for professional visual artists, designers, architects, curators, art critics and art historians.

T-R-A-C-E-S.net residencies: between March 1 and May 31, 2011; duration: 4 to 9 weeks; for artists willing to produce site-specific (locally found material, alternative concepts of Nida Art Colony, etc.) or sustainable and eco/logic/nomical works; artists are expected to contribute to the INTER-FORMAT Symposium; 2-5 grants for sustainable living, production and travel expenses available.

Nida AIR summer residencies: between June 1 and September 31, 2011; duration: 1 to 4 months; studio rent fee is 412 Eur/month, including all taxes, use of equipment, bicycles and the minivan (no grants available; selected candidates are issued a letter of support).

Residency Conditions: the Colony offers the necessary living and socialising facilities that ensure comfortable and unobtrusive coexistence of the five artists-in-residence. Each of the five residencies is set out on two floors, has 65 sq. m of floor space, and features all the necessary facilities; residents are welcome to use the Colony’s communal spaces, equipment, bicycles and minivan; a 600-metre walk down a forest path from the Colony is a white sand Blue Flag beach with sand dunes.

CALL FOR CONTRIBUTIONS TO INTER-FORMAT SYMPOSIUM

INTER-FORMAT Symposium: Reinventing Interdisciplinarity (part of the T-R-A-C-E-S.net project):

May 3-6, 2011, Nida/Vilnius.

The symposium’s goal is to gather artists, curators, researchers and practitioners and reinvent the format of presenting and sharing art, knowledge and experience. One of the key features of contemporary culture is the changing role of the artist, who sometimes assumes the role of a researcher and curator, and vice versa. Where are the borders of these roles? How could a serious researcher and theorist do a performance, and how could a playful artist do serious research and theorize?

The symposium in Nida is going to be an ongoing performance with lectures, discussions, presentations, coffee/wild herbal tea drinking circles, dinner with conceptual sentiments (to everybody’s health), eco-minimal-media events, audio-lobby, imaginary mapping, smell sightseeing, etc. We are looking forward to contributions that offer an engaging format of participation and rethink interdisciplinary practices between art, research, theory & curatorship, as well as inter-roles in contemporary culture.
Some grants for travel expenses available.

CALL FOR EVENT PROPOSALS
Nida Art Colony welcomes proposals from curators/institutions to do events at the Colony.
The colony’s facilities:
– seminar (53 sq. m.) and conference/exhibition (100 sq. m.) spaces;
– roof terrace (100 sq. m.);
– 53-bed guest house;
– multifunctional industrial space (423 sq. m.);
– media lab and other equipment.

We offer 50% discount from regular prices for cultural and educational events.

More information at www.nidacolony.lt

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Nida Art Colony, Taikos str. 43, Neringa (Nida), Lithuania, info@nidacolony.lt
If you have any questions, please contact Vytautas Michelkevicius, artistic director, via phone: +370 662 45216 or email: vytautas@nidacolony.lt