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Message: 3 Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 17:54:58 +0200 From: Daina Silina <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Subject: [Renewable] call for residencies and trainee in Nida Art Colony of VAA (Lithuania) 2015-2016 Hello! The new call for residencies and trainee in Nida Art Colony of VAA is out now, the deadline is February 15, 2014 for residencies between June, 2015 and May, 2016. More: http://www.nidacolony.lt/en/519-vaa-nida-art-colony-call-for-residency-applications-for-2015-2016-and-a-trainee and copied below! P.S. I personally highly recommend this. -- Kind regards, Daina / RIXC Daina Silina event producer, project manager RIXC Center for New Media Culture +371 67228478 (RIXC office) *http://rixc.org - NEW website! * http://facebook.com/rixcriga http://renewable.rixc.lv http://vimeo.com/rixcriga http://twitter.com/rixcriga VAA Nida Art Colony call for residency applications for 2015-2016 and a trainee <http://www.nidacolony.lt/en/519-vaa-nida-art-colony-call-for-residency-applications-for-2015-2016-and-a-trainee> Nida Art Colony of the Vilnius Academy of Arts (NAC) welcomes proposals from emerging and experienced artists, designers, architects, curators and art researchers/writers/philosophers for its upcoming remote residencies on the Baltic Sea coast in theCuronian Spit National Park <http://www.nerija.lt/en>, Lithuania. photoby-Natacha-Paganelli-Liminal-dome-Nida-Art-Colony Liminal Dome, project produced by Anna Romanenko, Gabriel Hensche and Bj?rn K?hn (DE) during thematic Techno-ecologies residency,www.liminaldome.com <http://www.liminaldome.com/>, 2014, photo by Natacha Paganelli NAC residencies are most appropriate for those who seek time and professional support for critical thinking, creative process, research, experiments, artistic production, exchange and cooperation of artists as well as those who need a big studio or spectacular open spaces?the Colony is situated about 600 meters away from the sand dunes and the Baltic Sea beach. You could also benefit from meetings with visiting professors and students as well as facilities in more than ten different workshops ofVilnius Academy of Arts <http://www.vda.lt/index.php/pageid/466>in Vilnius. The Colony provides the necessary living and social conditions to ensure a comfortable environment for the artists-in-residence. Each of the five residencies is set out on two floors with 65 square meters of floor space and is equipped with all the necessaryfacilities <http://www.nidacolony.lt/en/residence/communal-spaces-and-equipment>. The Colony is not only hosting 50 residents per year but also produces shows, publications and educational programmes. In October 2015, when the reconstruction of the last part of NAC building will be over, its size will double and a new department -*Nida Doctoral School <http://www.nidacolony.lt/en/nida-doctoral-school>*(NDS)*-*with a 200 sq. m. showroom (white cube/black box), workstudios and facilities for performing arts will start operating. The school is launched together with Aalto University (Helsinki, FIN). It will be open for other universities and academies to join. The goal of the School is to foster doctoral education in humanities and artistic research and provide intensive courses and residencies for doctoral fellows. Moreover this year the Colony is organizing Lithuanian Pavilion in the 56^th Venice Biennale with a project ?Museum <http://www.museo.lt/>? by the Lithuanian artist Dainius Li?kevi?ius. We invite all our friends and supporters to visit our pavilion from 7^th of May in Venice. Please check ourFacebook <https://www.facebook.com/NidaArtColony>, as well asProjects <http://www.nidacolony.lt/en/projects>andExhibitions <http://www.nidacolony.lt/en/exhibitions>atnidacolony.lt <http://www.nidacolony.lt/>for more information on NAC activities. To get a sense of the Colony life and to see A.I.R. portfolios please see theNida Art Colony Log <http://www.nidacolony.lt/en/colony-log>. Please followapplication guidelines <http://www.nidacolony.lt/en/residence/application>when applying. *Residencies between June 2015 and May 2016 *Recommended duration of a residency is two months; possible duration of a residency is one to four months. The atmosphere and intensity of residencies differs due to natural and social conditions. Please select the period of the year according to your project and needs: in summer Nida is turning into a busy (however not overcrowded) resort; from June 1^st to July 15^th and throughout September you will have art, architecture and design students in the house; from October to April you will enjoy solitude interrupted from time to time by art professionals or students arriving to the Colony for their workshops. No grants are currently available; selected candidates are issued a letter of support for individual grant seeking. Studio and living space rent for selected residents is 400 EUR/month (300 EUR/month in October-May for residents from Lithuania), including all taxes, use of equipment, Wi-Fi, communal spaces and bicycles. *Curatorial proposals *We are looking for curators who could propose and run a thematic residency project at NAC or curate exhibition from past and present residents archive. Please checkcurated residency programme <http://www.nidacolony.lt/en/residence/curated-residencies>. *Call for a trainee *We are looking for a trainee to work as a curatorial or visual communication assistant of the NAC artist-in-residency programme. Please visit our internships section <http://www.nidacolony.lt/en/colony/internships>for more information. You have a chance to start an internship already from the 1^st of February, 2015, so please apply as soon as you can. Our internships last at least 4 months. Please send all the applications [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>with indication in the subject of the activity you are applying to: residency, curatorial proposal or internship. NAC information partners:www.echogonewrong.com <http://www.echogonewrong.com/>,www.artnews.lt <http://www.artnews.lt/>,www.neringafm.lt <http://www.nidacolony.lt/> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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