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Vilnius Academy of Arts

Research Symposium “Not Quite King, Not Quite Fish” in Vilnius, 8-11 November

November 9-11th, 2023, on-site in Vilnius, at SODAS 2123 & Vilnius Academy of Arts; attendance is free.

Our symposium stages the disciplinary diversity of doctoral programs in artistic research as a flow of four different thematic fields. The Architecture, Art, Bureaucracy thread treats bureaucracy as a space of intervention. Central heating and the ‘grey energy’ of the structures of Vilnius Academy of Arts campus will feature. Flying Potatoes refuse commodification. Microscopic Gestures explore the critical potential of cinema when performed with the ongoing vitality of the process itself. Collaborative workshops and performance will be offered as modes of research. Empathy and Ecology examines ideas of co-worlding and tacitly shares artworks that collaboratively emerge with(in) ecological systems.

As artists-researchers, we are in tension with the real and fictive expectations of both artmaking and research. Not quite king, not quite fish, we turn to the animal queendom for answers. We dive into water like the cosmopolitan kingfisher. Different bodies of water lead us to a different catch, we function well with the abundance of a range of habitats. We are masters of diving in, no matter what the circumstances might be. Easy to recognise but at times obscured by our environment, we are feathered like artists but are actually entangled artists-researchers: short tail, long beak, or both. We flutter around as observers and participants in complex systems. According to legend, if one spots us on the way to a battle, all must return home and seek peace.

The symposium Not quite king, not quite fish is hosted and organised by doctoral candidates in Fine Art, Design and Architecture from the Vilnius Academy of Arts. The focus is on durational and performative forms of presentation and/or public experimentation as research.

PRELIMINARY PROGRAMME

The doctoral candidates of the Vilnius Art Academy are pleased to present a diverse international program of lectures, performances and exhibitions.

Including

Keynote Speakers

Audron? Žukauskait? is Chief Researcher at the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute. Her recent publications include the monographs Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari’s Philosophy: The Logic of Multiplicity (in Lithuanian, 2011), and From Biopolitics to Biophilosophy (in Lithuanian, 2016). She also co-edited (with S. E. Wilmer) Interrogating Antigone in Postmodern Philosophy and Criticism (Oxford UP, 2010); Deleuze and Beckett (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), Resisting Biopolitics: Philosophical, Political and Performative Strategies (Routledge, 2016; 2018), and Life in the Posthuman Condition: Critical Responses to the Anthropocene (Edinburgh UP, 2023). Her latest monograph Organism-Oriented Ontology is published by Edinburgh University Press in 2023. Her research interests include contemporary philosophy, Deleuze and Guattari’s philosophy, biopolitics, biophilosophy, posthumanism, and the Anthropocene.

Paulina Pukyt? is an interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator, and critic. She holds a degree from the Vilnius Academy of Arts, and a Master’s from the Royal College of Art in London. She currently teaches at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. She writes experimental literature, poetry and plays, as well as critical and satirical essays on cultural issues. She has published five books. In her visual art practice, she makes moving image, conceptual projects, installations, and public space interventions, working with found locations and found artefacts. She also makes text-based performances.

Ben Spatz is a nonbinary scholar-practitioner and a leader in the development of new artistic and embodied research methods. They are Reader in Media and Performance at University of Huddersfield (UK) and author of three books: What a Body Can Do (Routledge 2015), Blue Sky Body (Routledge 2020), and Making a Laboratory (Punctum 2020). Ben is founding editor of the videographic Journal of Embodied Research and the Punctum imprint Advanced Methods. Their work has been presented at more than thirty institutions in eighteen countries. For more information, please visit: www.urbanresearchtheater.com

Yen Chin Yun  (TBA)

Selected Presenters:

Joseph Gold Hendel (Burren College of Art, Ireland) xxxXtedXxx, participatory performance

Nina Liebenberg, University of the Arts Helsinki (Postdoc researcher), Performative lecture.

Dániel Máté, Doctoral Candidate - Hungarian University of Fine Art, Junior Researcher - EU4ART_differences, HU, People long for Warmth, performative lecture

Ulvi Haagensen, Estonian Academy of Arts, The unravelling line taken on a walk, performative lecture

Dr Maren Witte, Professor at Hochschule für Künste im Sozialen, Ottersberg, DE. Between Vui and Weh. Vietgerman in Berlin, lecture

Hannah Foley, PhD Candidate at the School of Creative Arts and Media, University of Tasmania, AU. Wet Breath Exchange: on performing with fog, site specific performance

Dr Madaleine Trig, independent artist, Contact Improvisations with Companion Species and the Camera, mixed media lecture

Fadwa Bouziane, PhD Candidate at Burren College of Art, IE. Hair-itage, performance

Alessio Alonne and Sei Iturriaga Sauco, Independent, performance.

Kate?ina Olivová, artist, researcher and pedagogue at Academy of Fine Arts, Prague, Czech Republic, Performance.

Janina Hoth, School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, workshop.

Darren O’Brien, Post Graduate Researcher, M4C AHRC Doctoral Partnership, Nottingham Trent University, UK. A Year with the Meadows, lecture and film premier

Jürgen Buchinger, Doctoral candidate at University of Arts Linz (AT) / Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts (CH), sound installation, a talk.

Caitlin Magda Shepherd, an independent researcher, teaches at Falmouth University and UAL, performative lecture.

Katharina Swoboda, independent artist and artist-researcher, performative lecture.

Egl? Gr?bliauskait?, Researcher at Institute of International Relations and Political Science at Vilnius University, LT

Ruth Anderwald and Leonhard Grond, University of Applied Arts Vienna, AT Radically Involved.

Reflecting on Togetherness from the Perspectives of Dizziness and Queerness. Performance lecture.

Coby-Rae Crosbie, Researcher at the Unité de Recherche Numérique (Digital Research Unit), Performative lecture.

Elise Adamsrød

George Finley Ramsey, independent artist, The Empedocles Clause [Clause A], performance

Maija Demitere, artist-researcher, Liepaja university, workshop.

Jasper Llewellyn and Daniel S. Evans, Northumbria University (UK), MEANDERS, somewhere between fleeting and infinite, durational performance

Polina Golovátina-Mora, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Careful movement, demonstration and lecture

Arnas Anskaitis, Vilnius Academy of Arts, LT, On the Grey Energy of Institutional Structures and Artistic Pedagogies. A Case of Vilnius Academy of Ars, Performative Talk/Lecture

Pedro Florencio, University of Lisbon, Modular cinema: notes on film as experimental aesthetics, lecture

Aist? Ambrazevi?i?t?, PhD Candidate at Vilnius Art Academy, LT, Lichen Grammar, tactile sharing


Coordinating Committee:  Miki (Miklós) Ambrózy, Sophie Durand, Greta Grinevi?i?t?, Migl? Križinauskait?-Bernotien?

Scientific-Artistic committee: Dr. Marquard Smith, Dr. R?ta Spelskyt?-Liberien?, Dr. Vytautas Michelkevi?ius, Jan GlöcknerGabriel? Gervickait?Greta Grinevi?i?t?Miki AmbrózyMigl? Križinauskait?, Rasa Jan?iauskait?, Povilas Marozas, Sophie Durand, Gail? Grici?t?, Ignas Pavliukevi?ius 

Organizers: Doctoral candidates of Vilnius Academy of Arts and Lithuanian Music and Theatre Academy in collaboration with SODAS 2123

SODAS 2123 cultural centre is a self-governing community-based space, operated and curated by the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association. It brings together creators and researchers from different fields, with practices based on experimentation, developing unexpected formats, and responding to the latest cultural, social, geopolitical and ecological issues.

With over 50 artists’ studios, rehearsing studios for bands, offices for design, film and visual arts organisations, exhibition spaces, event spaces, various workshops, a cafe, a public outdoor garden space, a public allotment, and more, SODAS 2123 provides space for a variety of art and cultural disciplines, and each resident of the complex is open to sharing, learning and craftsmanship.

Artistic research community of Vilnius Academy of Arts has 32 practice-based doctoral researchers in the arts (fine art, design, and architecture), 7 postdoctoral researchers and a few dozens of senior researchers and professors.

They constantly organize research exhibitions, seminars and symposia. The next upcoming event – artistic and research Symposium “Walking is still honest*: about being and moving together” will happen in Vilnius on the 5-7th of October, 2023.

 

Visual identity: Rasa Jan?iauskait?

contact: miklos.ambrozy@stud.vda.lt

 
 

 

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