Workshops and registration for the 41st Nida Symposium
09 04-09 06 Elina Brotherus masterclass
This master class is an opportunity for young practicing artists to receive feedback both from their peers and from an experienced tutor. We will focus on making new work that can continue a work in progress or start something new. The participants will be given assignments that they will use according to their needs: they can be warm-up exercises for someone, and small accomplished works for another. Please prepare to present also your previous and/or ongoing work, both in group and in individual meetings.
Elina Brotherus (b. 1972 Helsinki, Finland) works in photography and moving image. Her work has been alternating between autobiographical and art-historical approaches. Photographs dealing with the human figure and the landscape, the relation of the artist and the model, gave way to images on subjective experiences in her recent bodies of work Annonciation and Carpe Fucking Diem. In her current work she is revisiting Fluxus event scores and other written instructions for performance-oriented art work of the 1950s-70s. Elina has exhibited world-wide in galleries and institutions since 20 years and has published 9 monographs with various European publishers. In 2017 she received the Carte blanche PMU award and her work was exhibited in a solo show at the Pompidou Center in Paris.
Backlight master class II - master class with Elina Brotherus
09 04 – 09 06 Valentina Abenavoli workshop From Theory to the Book.
Exploring the editing process in photobooks
FROM THE THEORY TO THE BOOK is a collaborative workshop aimed to analyse how to read an image, understanding the endless possibilities of the editing process and its meaningful limitations, as well as exploring and developing a method both creative and practical, with a hand-on approach for the sequence.
Participants are encouraged to develop visual and conceptual non-linear narrative and use text or other material. Engaging with questions around reality and fiction, as well as objectivity and subjectivity, the workshop will lead to better understand the approach to publishing a photobook.
Notions of printing, binding, designing and marketing will be covered.
Participants should have a photographic project in an advanced state, not necessarily completed, which can be turn into a publication.
Valentina Abenavoli is an editor and book designer, who prefers reading photography in lyrical sequence, being constantly on the edge between awareness and reveries. In 2012 she founded AKINA, together with Alex Bocchetto. Their publishing house produces challenging photobooks by emerging and established photographers, in limited editions and often handmade. Her artistic practice includes photography, video, reappropriation of visual material, writing. She participated in several group and solo exhibitions, panel discussions, book and dummy award competition as juror. On a side, she runs workshops and works freelance as editor and book designer.
Applications including a pre-selection of 25 images should be sent to gintare@kaunasgallery.lt
09 03 – 09 06 Gintautas Trimakas‘ analog photography workshop
G. Trimakas will guide entrants through the alternative processes of analog photography: participants should have some experience in working with analog photography. The workshop will be held in Lithuanian language.
If you’re interested, please register via gintare@kaunasgallery.lt.
You can register till August 19th.
