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 June to September 2023. 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 not…
Open call for the Artists’ House Healing Residency
The Spinners is inviting creators from all fields to an art residency in the village of Kabeliai, Varėna district, Lithuania from March to May 2023. The aim of this programme is to create a space for the work of future art residents. The call is addressed to those who, regardless of their field of creation (professional…
Verpėjos Creative Pastures exhibition
Verpėjos is happy to invite you to the opening of exhibition with participating artists in the Creative Pastures residency programme. It will take place at Marcinkonys station gallery, Kastinio 1C, on 15th October, from 6 pm. 8 artists have been invited to take part in the Creative Pastures programme of the Verpejos Art Residency in…
October residents – Ching-Yu Cheng, Marta Romani and Karl Logge
Ching-Yu Cheng is an artist from Taiwan. She tends to work on the project which is community-based, mostly her works are being shaped slowly through long-term and constant field research like an archaeologist in art form, and to give a response in a spacial form that still involved certain architectural thinking. The reality pushes the…
Meet our September residents – Monique Besten and Roseline Lambert
Monique Besten is an artist, writer and educator based in Spain and the Netherlands. She makes long-distance performative walks through Europe, work site-specific and researches slow ways of being and connections between artistic media and different fields of life. Monique writes for “The Dark Mountain Project” and teaches Performance Art and Artistic Survival Skills at the…
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…
Meeting with Verpėjos residents Nadine Baldow and Kristin Fredricksson
July 29, 3 – 6 p.m. we invite you to meet Nadine Baldow and Kristin Fredricksson, the art residents of “Verpejos” for the month of July. The “Verpejos” art residency is located in a traditional homestead, called Danilu by the locals, in the village of Kabeliai in the Varėna district. In July, two artists invited…
Verpėjos residency housewarming event moments
On the 3rd – 5th of June Verpėjos organised the residency housewarming event. Photo credits – Vitalij Červiakov.
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…
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
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…
Project “Lavkė. Slow and sandy expedition” presentation at SODAS 2123 cultural complex
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…