VYTAUTAS MICHELKEVICIUS
Nida Art Colony on the Baltic Sea Coast: Call for Residency Applications, Event Proposals and Trainee
Type
Curatorial Proposal, Job/Career, Residency
Category
Activism, Architecture, Conceptual, Curating, Desi...
Status
Archived
Deadline
October 14, 2011
Application Fee
Not Available
Location
Nida, Lithuania

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 invites artists, designers, architects, curators, art researchers to meet spring on the Baltic Sea coast in the National nature park. It was opened in March 2011 as a new branch of Vilnius Academy of Arts (Lithuania).


Location. http://nidacolony.lt/">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.


The residency in Nida will meet your expectations if:


-the intensity of urban life consumes all of your time and leaves you without energy to concentrate on artistic practice
-curators visits, invitations to openings, presentations and other events keep piling up, and you want to finish an old work or start a new one in a calm state of mind
-you are willing to give up the city noise for a gentle brain massage performed by the pine forest and the sound of sea waves
-you are working with site-specific projects involving local communities, reflecting the natural and/or cultural environment, etc.
-you love coincidences and want to meet different artists from all over the world in order to collaborate with them now or in the future
-you are looking for a big studio and space for experiments – all the forest and beach is your studio.


Time and accommodating solitude are becoming the most important values today, and these are plenty at Nida Art Colony.



Magazine: the first issue of “Nida Art Colony Log” was published and available for download at http://www.nidacolony.lt/images/log01.pdf">www.nidacolony.lt/images/log01.pdf. It covers events and A.I.R. portfolios as well as critics texts on the place and site-specific work


 



CALL FOR RESIDENCY APPLICATIONS


Deadline: October 15th, 2011


Nida residencies: between February 1 and May 31 (2012); duration: 1 to 4 months; no grants available; selected candidates are issued a letter of support for individual grant seeking; studio rent fee is 312 Eur/month, including all taxes, use of equipment, communal spaces, bicycles and the minivan.


There is also 1 residency studio available for November (2011) and 2 studios for December (2011). Apply as soon as you can.



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; a 600-metre walk down a forest path from the Colony is a beach with sand dunes.


 



CALL FOR EVENT PROPOSALS


Deadline for January-May (2012) events is 31st of October.


Nida Art Colony welcomes proposals from curators/institutions to collaborate or to rent the spaces for doing 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.


 



CALL FOR TRAINEE APPLICATIONS


We are looking for intern to work as curator assistant, including facilitation of artists-in-residency and other culture & education programmes. We offer accommodation in the colony from October 2011 to May 2012 but the living expenses you should cover yourself or from other funding.


More information at http://www.nidacolony.lt/">www.nidacolony.lt


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Nida Art Colony, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Taikos str. 43, Neringa (Nida), Lithuania.
If you have any questions, please contact Vytautas Michelkevicius, artistic director: +370 662 45216, vytautas@nidacolony.lt   


Information partners: http://www.artnews.lt/">www.artnews.lt, http://www.neringafm.lt/">www.neringafm.lt.


 

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