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2015-01-10
Edges
Application deadline for the new MigAA laboratory Edges is 16 January 2015. For statements, please use our online application form. Invited emerging artists will be granted travel costs and accommodation.
February 23 – March 1st 2015, Reykjavik, Iceland
The focus of this new Migrating Art Academies laboratory is on exploring the edges of the art world and the creative process. The passion and the driving force behind art will be explored and put in focus rather than the art piece itself. The questions we raise are: Where the progressive art in different forms meet on the edge of the accepted norm, what lives on the borders and how different mediums and art forms connect and become one.
2014-04-25
Food – Biotechnologies – Neocolonialism
6-13th May 2014, Podium Project Space, Oslo
Food is central to life and access to food for all is central to modern civilisation. Our knowledge and our skills in cultivation and preparation of it, our sharing of it in social gatherings, our care and nourishment of each other with it, are aspects of our relationship with food that are interweaved across generations, cultures and traditions. It is one of the seeds of the self.
2014-03-05
On VOICES
Greta Vileikytė
We usually think of voice as a sound produced in a person’s larynx and uttered through the mouth, as speech or song. As well as a quality of singing, so it could include features as dialect, language, even mouth structure. But all these features are only a part of sounds that surrounds us.
2013-12-12
2013-11-13
Call for participants: Fictiocratic Operation no. 27C
Call for participants is open till 20 Nov 2013
Our social life is based on conventions: conventions of how to behave in cafés, shops, lectures and family dinners. All of these conventions are creations. They are not creations of one author, but something that has been collectively brought to being through the passage of cultural phenomena. Nevertheless, they are creations in the same sense than an artwork is a creation. Such behavioral patters could be created just as artworks are, and offered to the society as potential conventions. Fictiocratic Operation no. 27C laboratory aims to acknowledge and explore such possibilities during the New Year’s holiday, a time full of repeatable, socially accepted rituals often created on a fictional basis, the same fiction which artworks can be. After all, Santa Claus or New Year’s dress parties are the same fictional formations as a film of a worldwide catastrophe or a murder which happens on a theatre stage.
2013-10-20
Politics of Interdisciplinarity?
Skaidra Trilupaitytė
Published in the “In the Graveyards of Interdisciplinarity (?)” catalog, Vilnius, 2013. Republished from cultural weekly “7 meno dienos” No. 15 (937), 15-04-2011
Laima Kreivytė’s manual of interdisciplinary art, published on 1 April (7md, No. 13), as well as Kęstutis Šapoka’s 2010 essay “A Few Notes on Interdisciplinary Art,” reproduced on the website of the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association attest to what seems to be the usual crystallizing trends in contemporary art. The two art critics have comprehensively described the field of the new genre (or sub-genre), discussed characteristics of interdisciplinary art (Šapoka in a more historic- empirical manner, Kreivytė more theoretically) and there seems hardly anything left to add on the subject. However, the question of interdisciplinary art (IA), which has resurfaced in the public discourse lately, is gripping for reasons other than polished definitions. Both authors state clearly that the need for a new definition grows in proportion to the number of funding applications to the Culture Support Fund for interdisciplinary art projects. Some projects that try to pass for IA in order to secure funding clearly do not belong there, which points to the problem of a “watered-down concept.” According to Šapoka, today “we are talking about this kind of art (field) like an autonomous phenomenon which requires separate funding, even though its very name once meant, at least for a short while, a striving for freedom.”
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