[rohrpost] Fwd: starting Nida Art Colony: Call for Applications

[Mindaugas Gapsevicius]

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Subject: 	starting Nida Art Colony: Call for Applications
Date: 	Tue, 08 Feb 2011 12:25:23 +0100
From: 	Vytautas Michelkevicius / Nidos meno kolonija



   Nida Art Colony on the Baltic Sea Coast: Call for Residency
   Applications, Contributions and Proposals

*Deadline: February 28, 2011*

*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 <http://nidacolony.lt/> 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
<http://nidacolony.lt/en/t-r-a-c-e-s-air-and-symposium-interformat/symposium-interformat>: 

*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.

*Deadline: February 28, 2011; please send T-R-A-C-E-S application
<http://nidacolony.lt/images/docs/residency%20application%20form_nida_traces.doc><http://nidacolony.lt/images/docs/residency%20application%20form_nida.doc>to 

vytautas at nidacolony.lt <mailto:vytautas at nidacolony.lt>*

*Nida AIR summer residencies
<http://nidacolony.lt/en/residence>:*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).

*Deadline: February 28, 2011; please send application
<http://nidacolony.lt/images/docs/residency%20application%20form_nida.doc><http://nidacolony.lt/images/docs/residency%20application%20form_nida.doc>to 

vytautas at nidacolony.lt <mailto:vytautas at nidacolony.lt>*

*Residency Conditions
<http://nidacolony.lt/en/residence/residencies>:*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
<http://nidacolony.lt/en/t-r-a-c-e-s-air-and-symposium-interformat/symposium-interformat>*

*INTER-FORMAT Symposium: Reinventing Interdisciplinarity (part of the
T-R-A-C-E-S.net <http://www.t-r-a-c-e-s.net/> project):
*May 3-6, 2011, Nida/Vilnius.

*Deadline: February 28, 2011; please send your proposals for
contributions to vytautas at nidacolony.lt <mailto:vytautas at nidacolony.lt>*

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.

*Deadline: February 28, 2011; fill in application form
<http://nidacolony.lt/images/docs/application_form_rent2011.doc> and
send proposals to vytautas at nidacolony.lt <mailto:vytautas at nidacolony.lt>*

You can also apply for rent throughout the year, if there are any free
places left after the deadline.

*More information at www.nidacolony.lt <http://www.nidacolony.lt/>*

Follow us on Facebook <http://www.facebook.com/NidaArtColony>.

*Nida Art Colony, Taikos str. 43, Neringa (Nida), Lithuania,
info at nidacolony.lt <mailto:info at nidacolony.lt>*

*If you have any questions, please contact Vytautas Michelkevicius,
artistic director, via phone: +370 662 45216 or email:
vytautas at nidacolony.lt <mailto:vytautas at nidacolony.lt>*