[oberlist] LT* call/wshp: Fireplace: Contrabbando* laboratory in Nida

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Subject: >top Invitation for applications to Fireplace: Contrabbando*
laboratory in Nida
From:    Mindaugas Gapševičius <miga at o-o.lt>
Date:    Tue, June 25, 2013 6:08 pm
To:      top-list at top-ev.de
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Application deadline for

Fireplace: Contrabbando* laboratory in Nida

July 15th. Please use the online form for registration @
http://www.migaa.eu/fireplace-contrabbando/registration/
Invited artists will be granted travel costs and accommodation.

Nida, Lithuania, 1-15 September 2013

* In Italian contrabbando – contra ‘against’ + bando ‘government
order’
– illegal smuggling of goods through state borders.

Smuggling is the theme of the Migrating Art Academies international
creative workshops that will take place this September in Nida Art
Colony, organised by Vilnius Art Academy. We consider smuggling to be a
risky, dynamic, conflicting and creative situation, in which confronting
sides justify their own actions for the reward of both material and
non-material benefits. Nida is on the border with Kaliningrad Oblast, an
area with a long history of smuggling, and where smugglers are still
active. Issues of local specifics will be pertinent to discussions and
will reflect in work produced.

The creative workshops for emerging artists will aim at a multifaceted
and interdisciplinary analysis of smuggling. Negative and positive
aspects of smuggling will be discussed, the former being the negative
influence on state security and finance systems, the illegal trafficking
of people, cybernetic attacks, viruses and so on, the latter including
cultural-educational smuggling, book spreaders, homing pigeons,
cultural-social protests, universities in exile, attempts to break
through authoritative state information firewalls and illegal visual
aesthetics. Some provocative themes (e.g. quantum world) will also be
offered.

The Migrating Art Academies (MigAA) platform is aimed at innovation and
experience-exchange in art teaching and research. It is a network of
European universities and independent organisations (participating
countries include Finland, France, Germany, Estonia, Lithuania, Latvia,
United Kingdom and Russia). The Fireplace: Contrabbando laboratory is
supported by the European Commission Culture Program, the Culture
Support Foundation of the Republic of Lithuania and the Nordic Culture
Point. The laboratory is organised by the Department of Photography and
Media Art of Vilnius Art Academy together with the Lithuanian
Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association.

Speakers
Gediminas Kulikauskas, public representative of Criminal Bureau of
Customs of the Republic of Lithuania. Lecture "Crossing state borders"
Vismantas Kairys, specialist of biochemical technologies. “Quantum
world, atoms and molecules”
Kristupas Sabolius, philosopher, writer, translator. "Imagination and Art"
Wolfgang Knapp, professor at Art Context Institute, Berlin Art
University. "Transdisciplinary practices"
Audrius Mickevičius, professor at the Department of Photography and
Media Art, Vilnius Academy of Arts: "Conraband in artworks"
Mindaugas Gapševičius, Migrating Art Academies: "Illegal Aesthetics"

Migrating Art Academies: http://www.migaa.eu
Department of Photography and Media Art, Vilnius Academy of Arts:
http://media.vda.lt
Nida Art Colony, Vilnius Academy of Arts: http://www.nidacolony.lt
Lithuanian Inter­disciplinary Artists’ Association: http://www.letmekoo.lt


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