On 7 December 2021, at 18:00, the art initiative Verpėjos, together with the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association and SODAS 2123 cultural complex invites you to the presentation of the project “Lavkė. Slow and sandy expedition” at the cultural complex SODAS 2123 (Vitebsko g. 23, Vilnius). The presentation will be attended by the expedition participants who lived in…
Viktorija Damerell interview with artist, “Lavkė. Slow and sandy expedition” participant, Gabrielė Vetkinaitė At the beginning of autumn, you took part in the Lavkė project. Had you visited Dzukija prior to that? I have visited several times the larger cities, but I definitely hadn’t seen the ethnographic villages of Dzūkija, such as Musteika. You have lived in…
On the 30th during the “Lavkė. Slow and sandy expedition” event artists Andrej Polukord, Dovilė Bagdonaitė, Theatre of senses (Karolina Žernytė and Šarūnė Pečiukonytė), Saulė Norkutė, Gabrielė Vetkinaitė, Agota Zdanavičiūtė and Živilė Lukšytė shared their experiences and artistic projects developed at Kabeliai. Photo credits Vitalij Červiakov.
On 30 October (Saturday), at 14:00, we invite all the residents of Kabeliai village, the surrounding area, and all interested people to meet with the artists who this summer and autumn are living at the Kabeliai School: Andrej Polukord, DovilėBagdonaitė, Pojūčių teatras (Karolina Žernytė, Šarūnė Pečiukonytė, and Saulė Norkutė), Gabriele Vetkinaitė, Agota Zdanavičiūtė, and Živilė Lukšytė. You are…
On Sunday, 31 October, we invite you on a hike around the area surrounding Musteikiai village. Together with the locals we will walk about 6 kilometres, calling the woods, fields, hills by their names and remembering what they testify to the works and battles of previous generations. We will be studying place-names and the secret…
“Maybe all architectural masterpieces were born not where we think, but in small, cosy villages,” says the artist Andrej Polukord, participant of the “Lavkė. Slow and sandy expedition” residency. Viktorija Damerell interviews him. How did you decide to participate in the Lavkė residency?I saw that everything will be taking place in a forest and that…
I am Agota Zdanavičiūtė. I live and work in Vilnius, but I was always fascinated by the countryside. I didn’t have a summerhouse in the countryside when I was a kid as the others did. My grandparents lived in Vilnius and Tauragė. With my parents we used to participate in Romuva camp, which were taking place…
Živilė Lukšytė graduated product design bachelor studies at Vilnius Art Academy. In the design master studies she continued her research about food experiences while analyzing and interpreting festive food traditions. The artist initiated design studio Less Table with her former teacher Julija Mazūrienė. Less Table is a space for food related practices and research, such as sustainable city and nature, continuation…
Arriving at the Verpėjos residence as a collector of mushrooms, Andrej Polukord hoped toadd more mushrooms to his current collection. Regrettably, misfortune seemed to follow thiscollector: during the period when he was visiting, a desert-like drought prevailed, and if everrain did come, it always seemed to skip right over Kabeliai. Almost as if he was…
We are happy to announce another artist in residency program participant, the artist Gabrielė Vetkinaitė. Gabrielė Vetkinaitė is an artist from Anykščiai region. She studied sculpture at Vilnius Art Academy. Gabrielė is working with sound installations and performances. She often uses pink color and songs performed in meditative voice. The artist works were presented in…
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