Interformat 2014 symposium participants
On the 2-5th of October Res Artis regional meeting, organized by Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts in co-operation with Res Artis will take place in the facilities of Vilnius Academy of Art in both Vilnius and Nida (Nida Art Colony). The theme of the meeting is “Escape and Engagement: Residencies as Hosts, Producers and Promoters”.
The meeting will host 80-90 art professionals inviting them to participate in the lectures, presentations, art events, discussions and workshops. Both beginners and experienced residency operators are welcome to the event. The workshops will be guided by leading residencies from the region and all over the world (like the Banff Centre and Akademie Schloss Solitude)
The meeting will address two main topics: REMOTENESS (escape, exotic location, cultural tourism, hospitality) and RESIDENCY’S ROLE (engagement in the resident’s life, in the local community, in the art world, in the education and (artistic) research community, reputation and influence, models and ethics of host-guest or curator-artist relationship, diversity of artistic production or residency results, evaluation of results). Full programme is available online.
The meeting is open to Res Artis members and non-members, i.e. present and potential residency operators (directors, managers, curators, artists) from:
– Baltic countries (Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania)
– Nordic countries (Denmark, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden)
– Central Asia (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan)
– Eastern partnership countries (Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine)
– Russian Federation
The acceptance of registration will be prioritised to representatives from the above-mentioned regions but is not exclusive to those. Early bird smaller registration fee is valid until 10th of August.
Next to the above this Res Artis Regional Meeting will:
– Expose a rather unknown region – former Soviet Union – to its Nordic partners and participants from other parts of the world;
– Provide learning opportunities for emerging residencies and discussion opportunities to experienced residency operators;
– Offer more time to interactive exchange and less time to panel presentations.
The meeting will happen partly in Vilnius and partly in Nida Art Colony – the residency centre in Nida on the Baltic Sea coast in the National Park of Curonian Spit.
Nida Art Colony of the Vilnius Academy of Arts (NAC) is a meeting place for experienced and emerging artists, designers, architects, curators, art critics and researchers from around the world. It is a unit of the Vilnius Academy of Arts. NAC offers time, space and professional support for exchange, work, reflection, research, production and experimentation in contemporary visual arts. NAC runs an artist-in-residence programme (50 artists per year), which offers curated and independent residencies for professional artists and researchers (from 5 to 12 at a time).
Res Artis is an international association of over 490 centers, organisations, and individuals dealing with artists-in-residence programmes in over 70 countries.
Find more information about the meeting in Res Artis website.
