August residents – Mar Serinyà Gou and Jurgis Bernatonis

August residents – Mar Serinyà Gou and Jurgis Bernatonis

Mar Serinyà Gou is a visual and perfomance artist. She holds a Phd in Fine Arts from the University of Barcelona. She graduated voice studies at the Conservatory of Barcelona and different studies on consciousness of movement and systemic methodology. She has been doing several exhibitions and performance-art in different museums, centers and festivals in national and…

Verpėjos’ Creative Pastures welcomes firsts residents

Verpėjos’ Creative Pastures welcomes firsts residents

We are excited to begin our new residency series called Creative Pastures. Recently our first residents Nadine Baldow and Kristin Fredricksson have arrived and started their month with the sheeps in the calm and beautiful surroundings of Kabeliai village.  Kristin Fredricksson is an award-winning performance-maker and a researcher, lecturer, mover and puppeteer. Her themes are the…

Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė “Grandmas and Grandpas of Country”

“We are standing in front of each other. He is my destiny, my “confessional”. Neither me,nor him has avoided the cross wind, carrying the smell of a barn and the black soil.” MarijaTeresė Rožanskaitė.M. T. Rožanskaitė (1933-2007) is one of the most prominent Lithuanian artists of the late20th century. Owning a homestead in Kuršiai village,…

Marija Nemčenko “Blessed are those that move”

Marija Nemčenko “Blessed are those that move”

At the Marcinkonys train station gallery artist Marija Nemčenko is presenting “Blessed are thosethat move” – an exhibition looking into multifold meanings of moving and migrating. TakingMarcinkonys train station as a starting point, the stories of traveling disperse their own uniqueways. Is it white storks’ roosting stop during their long migratory journey, is it seasonal…

Call for creators to submit applications: VERPĖJOS‘ CREATIVE PASTURES

Call for creators to submit applications: VERPĖJOS‘ CREATIVE PASTURES

Verpėjos (The Spinners) is inviting creators from different fields to an artistic residency in the Varėna area (South Lithuania) from July to October 2022. 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 the residency, artists are…

How difficulties in life are often born into musical compositions. An interview with Agota Zdanavičiūtė

How difficulties in life are often born into musical compositions. An interview with Agota Zdanavičiūtė

Viktorija Damerell interview with artist, musician, “Lavkė. Slow and sandy expedition” residency participant, Agota Zdanavičiūtė. Tell us about yourself. What art do you do? I mainly work with music. Now I am writing songs based on poems by Vladas Braziūnas and Stasė Lygutaitė Bucevičienė. This year I am releasing an album of songs based on the stories…

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