Lietuvas Nacionālās galerijas Informācijas centrs, www.artnews.lt un Lietuvas Laikmetīgās mākslas centrs aicina uz semināru sēriju mākslas kritiķiem "Three uses of the knife". Semināri notiks 9. un 23. oktobrī, kā arī 6. un 20. novembrī. Semināru tēmas un cita praktiska informācija lasāma tālāk angļu valodā:
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION Three uses of the knife International workshop for art critics 9, 23 October, and 6, 20 November 2009. The international workshop for art critics Three uses of the knife is co-organized by Lithuanian web-based contemporary art magazine www.artnews.lt, the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) and the Information Centre of the National Gallery of Art (IC NGA). The event is aimed at professionals both at the beginning of their careers and with outstanding experience to examine the genres, forms, functions and strategies of contemporary art criticism. The workshop will endure for two months: every two weeks on Friday audience will get involved into a dialogue-like meetings with internationally acknowledged contemporary art critics, writers, designers, and philosophers. #1 9 October 2009 CAC reading room (Vokieciu str. 2, Vilnius) The workshop is dedicated to practical work with texts covering writing and editing skills. It will be guided by the art critic, curator and chief-editor of the CAC Interview magazine Simon Rees (Lithuania), and Ellie Levenson (United Kingdom) who is a freelance journalist and writer, contributor for The Guardian and The Times among others, and an occasional columnist for The Independent. #2 23 October 2009 National Gallery of Art auditorium (Konstitucijos ave. 22, Vilnius) The second workshop will examine art criticism in the expanded field, bringing up questions of contemporary art criticism’s functions, strategies of communication and identity of the publisher. Three sessions during the day will be led by Jan Verwoert, a Dutch art historian and critic, curator and a contributing editor of Frieze magazine, writer for Afterall and Metropolis M, Vivian Rehberg – a French curator at the Paris Museum of Modern Art and a critic of contemporary art, and Anders Kreuger, a Swedish curator and writer, Director of the Malmö Art Academy since 2007. #3 6 November 2009 CAC reading room (Vokieciu str. 2, Vilnius) The third day is intended to work on so-called Case Studies examining the phenomenon of writing with art and art about writing in its intimate relationship to contemporary art practice. The workshop will be led by Maria Fusco (to be confirmed), a British art critic, editor, lecturer, fiction writer and Director of Writing at Goldsmiths College, Will Holder - British performance artist, designer and writer, and Jalal Toufic, a Lebanese writer, film theorist, and video artist. #4 20 November 2009 National Gallery of Art auditorium (Konstitucijos ave. 22, Vilnius) The last workshop is dedicated to an attempt to re-examine the current situation of Lithuanian art criticism focusing on the approach to apply interdisciplinary knowledge in writing about art practices. The presentations will be made by art critics, philosophers, theorist of culture and art translators in Lithuania – Alfonsas Andriuškevičius, Erika Grigoravičienė, Gintautas Mažeikis, Artūras Tereškinas and Audronė Žukauskaitė. The panel discussion will be arranged after the presentations, moderator – art critic and curator Laima Kreivytė. The workshop language will be English (except the #4). Workshops are free of charge. Further information and registration: www.3-uses-of-the-knife.lt/en The project received support from The Culture Support Fund and The Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania. It is opened to attend non-registered, only the first workshop requires registration as there will be an intence work in groups learning practical and creative things. Should you have any questions feel free to approach me [email protected] or Neringa, who is the main coordonator, on the email address provided on the website www.3-uses-of-the-knife.lt/en . Dovile Tumpyte NacionalinÄ—s dailÄ—s galerijos informacijos centras Information Centre of the National Gallery of Art Lietuvos dailÄ—s muziejus / Lithuanian Art Museum Konstitucijos 22, LT-08105 Vilnius, Lithuania T: +370 5 212 29 97, F: +370 5 219 54 96 [email protected]; www.ic.ndg.lt .. REZONE http://re-lab.lv/rezone ::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::: .. WWW: https://lists.rixc.lv/mailman/listinfo/rezone
