Shayma Nader is an artist, curator and researcher from Palestine. Her research-led practice is concerned with anticolonial, antidisciplinary and land-centred imaginaries and practices. She is currently a PhD candidate in artistic research at ARIA at Sint Lucas School of Arts (KdG) and University of Antwerp. Ingrid Helena Pajo (b. 1996, Tallinn) is a textile artist. Her work encompasses…
The event is designed to get to know and support VERPĖJOS (The Spinners’) Art Organization from the village of Kabeliai in Dzūkija. Who: Verpėjos – an independent art initiative / Shepherds’ residency in the village of Kabeliai / art gallery at Marcinkonys train station Where: 77 days, Jakšto st. 9, Vienuolio street inner courtyard – the…
On the 4th of May the exhibition Contact Zones by Indrė Liškauskaitė will be opened at Marcinkonys station gallery. The term Contact Zones was developed by Mary Louise Pratt, while analyzing the European colonialism in South America. The author started using Contact Zones, as social spaces where disparate cultures meet and clash. Later the term was interpreted by Donna Haraway, as…
Call for creators to submit applications: VERPĖJOS‘ CREATIVE PASTURES Verpėjos (The Spinners) is inviting interdisciplinary artists to an artistic residency in the Varėna area (South Lithuania) from September to October 2024. Verpėjos‘ residency is designed to focus on the slow process of artistic research and the long-term value for the participating creators and audience. At the end of…
September 29, 3 – 7 p.m. we invite you to meet Ieva Maslinskaitė and Vaiva Grainytė, the artresidents of “Verpejos” for the month of September. The “Verpejos” art residency is located in a traditional homestead in the village of Kabeliai in theVarėna district. In September, two artists invited by a competition – Ieva Maslinskaitė and…
Vaiva Grainytė (1984, LT) is a writer, poet, and playwright, her text-based practice shifts between genres, interdisciplinary works and publications. As an author she takes action as an observant anthropologist: challenged by Grainyte’s poetic interpretation, mundane social issues take on a paradoxical nature. Her books – the book of essays Beijing Diaries (2012) and the poetry collection Gorilla Archives (2019) – were nominated for Book of the Year…
Verpėjos (The Spinners) is inviting interdisciplinary artists to an artistic residency in the Kabeliai village in Lithuania for July – August 2024. Verpėjos‘ “Shepherds and Spindles” residency project will invite interdisciplinary artists to work on their own proposed art research project in our given frame, conditions and aims: to explore and rethink the themes of traditional…
On the 25th of August, 3 PM, we are happy to invite to meeting with artists Cecilia Charlton and Johanna Grivel, the residents of Verpėjos Creative Pastures residency program. The artists will share their experiences during the creative month they spent in Kabeliai village with a flock of sheeps and working at cosy little studio…
London-based American artist Cecilia Charlton received a BFA Painting in 2015 from Hunter College in NYC, and an MA Painting from the Royal College of Art, London in 2018. She creates hand-made embroideries and weavings that engage with the formal histories of abstraction to explore a broad range of themes including the cosmos, memory, and…
On 28th of July, 3 pm, we are happy to invite you to a meeting with Verpėjos Creative Pastures residents – Ugnė Venckė and Markéta Dlouhá. The artists will talk about their experiences of herding sheep and their creative inspirations. Markéta will invite you to a handmade paper workshop and share her discoveries of craftsmanship…
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