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Date: Fri, 09 Jan 2015 17:54:58 +0200
From: Daina Silina <daina at rixc.lv>
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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!

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    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 toinfo at nidacolony.lt
<mailto:info at nidacolony.lt>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/>

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