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…
“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…
The autumn begins with new artists at Verpėjos residency – Katrina Niebergal and Bergur Anderson. Katrina Niebergal is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Her practice is centrally concerned with feeling — with what feeling feels like; its states of being and behaviors; its channels of arrival and transmission; its storage; and…
“Lavkė. Slow and sandy expedition” I’ve come to the village of Kabeliai. I’m living in what was once a school. After a grand renovation it was turned into a multifunctional community centre, which, after five years, also ceased to function. The locals will later be happy to see that art residents now live here, because…
The first two artists-travellers – Dovilė Bagdonaitė and Andrej Polukord – have already arrived in Šiliai Dzūkija and have managed to get involved in the local life. The news and progress of the expeditions can be followed on the organisers’ website verpejos.lt and on the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/verpejos
Slow and sandy artist expeditions around the region of the Šilų Dzūkai From July to October 2021, artists from different locations in Lithuania will visit and create in the region of the Forest Dwellers of Dzūkija – Šilų Dzūkai. They will participate in an event/project called “Lavkė. Lėta smėlėta ekspedicija” [Lavkė. Slow and sandy expedition]. At…
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