International Photography Symposium
NIDA. Meeting Photography
PROGRAM
11–17 September 2023
VAA Nida Art Colony (E. A. Jonušo St. 3)
Curonian Spit History Museum (Pamario St. 53)
Nida Community Centre (Taikos St. 17)
Amber Gallery-Museum (Pamario St. 20)
Lectures, artist talks, workshops, exhibition openings, photo and film screenings, concerts will take place during the International Photography Symposium “Nida. Meeting Photography”. One photographer will be awarded a Neringa Mayor’s Prize.
Monday, Sept. 11. Workshops
Daphne van de Velde (Netherlands). About the physical discomfort of the body in performative photography
Alnis Stakle (Latvia). Place as inner experience
Artūras Šeštokas (Lithuania). Wet Colodion Workshop IV
Workshops take place September 11–13
Tuesday, Sept. 12. Opening
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM. Registration (LFS Infocenter, Nida Community Centre, Taikos St. 17)
5:30 PM. Michał Siarek. Inner Light. Exhibition opening (Thomas Mann Museum stairway, Skruzdynės st. 17)
6:00 PM. Anton Lukoszevieze. Memory Maps. Exhibition opening (Curonian Spit History Museum, Pamario St. 53)
Opening of International Photography Symposium NIDA. Meeting Photography
Neringa Mayor’s Prize award
7:00 PM. Vanished Story. Exhibition opening (Mizgiriai Artist Residency, Pamario St. 20)
9:00 PM. Opening party with Eternal Shipping Ltd. (Poland) (Zuikio daržas, Nidos-Smiltynės Rd. 7a)
Wednesday, Sept. 13
Lectures (VAA Nida Art Colony, E. A. Jonušo St. 3)
10:00 AM. Dominique Versavel (France). Collection of Lithuanian photography in the French National Library
11:00 AM. Neringa Bumblienė (Lithuania). Reflections of the challenges of the current world and the imagined future in contemporary art
12:00 PM. Agnė Narušytė (Lithuania). Photography measures the pulse of Vilnius: glimpses - signs - destructions - reconstructions
5:00 PM. Artist talks (VAA Nida Art Colony, E. A. Jonušo St. 3)
Anton Kusters (Belgium). The Blue Skies Project
Michał Siarek (Poland). Inner Light
Alnis Stakle (Latvia). Mellow Apocalypse. Shelter. Melancholic Road
8:30 PM. Film night. ANTANAS SUTKUS: Scenes from the photographer’s life. Dir. V. V. Landsbergis, documentary, 2021, Eng. sub., 63 min. N-7 (Nida Community Centre, Taikos St. 17)
9:00 PM. Nida OFF 2023. (Zuikio daržas, Nidos-Smiltynės Rd. 7a)
Thursday, Sept. 14
Lectures (VAA Nida Art Colony, E. A. Jonušo St. 3)
10:00 AM. Monika Krikštopaitytė (Lithuania). Touchable exhibits. The cases of Vadim Šamkov and Vilma Šileikienė
11:00 AM. Marija Martinaitytė (Lithuania). Female gaze: between publicity and privacy. Acting and directing in front of the lenses in Milda Drazdauskaitė and Veronika Šleivytė photography
12:00 PM. Tomas Pabedinskas (Lithuania). The Intangible Gaze of Surveillance and Material Marks of Oppression
1:00 PM. Presentation of workshops (VAA Nida art colony, E. A. Jonušo St. 3)
5:00 PM. Artist talks (VAA Nida art colony, E. A. Jonušo St. 3)
Daphne van de Velde (Netherlands). Of Me and You
Janina Sabaliauskaitė (Lithuania / United Kingdom)
Darius Žiūra (Lithuania). Portraits
8:30 PM. Film night. Gustoniai in Gustoniai. Dir. Darius Žiūra, documentary, 2020, Lith. l., Eng. sub., 76 min. (Nida Community Center, Taikos St. 17)
Friday, Sept. 15
Lectures (VAA Nida Art Colony, E. A. Jonušo St. 3)
10:00 AM. Skaidra Trilupaitytė (Lithuania). Primitive Sky / Sightings
11:00 AM. Natalija Arlauskaitė (Lithuania). Scale, media, and materiality in Aistė Kirvelytė’s creative work
12:00 PM. Svetlana Batura (Lithuania). Research of the archive of Giedraičiai family
5:00 PM. Artist talks (VAA Nida Art Colony, E. A. Jonušo St. 3)
Claudia Heinermann (Netherlands)
Anton Lukoszevieze (Lithuania / United Kingdom). Life is a horizontal fall
Thomas Sauvin (France). Beijing Silvermine
8:30 PM. Projection night. Screening of residency competition finalists’ works (Nida Community Centre, Taikos St. 17)
9:00 PM. Film night. Memories of China. Dir. Emiland Guillerme, documentary, 2022, Eng., Fr., Chin. l., Eng. sub., 52 min. (Nida Community Centre, Taikos St. 17)
Saturday, Sept. 16
Lectures (VAA Nida Art Colony, E. A. Jonušo St. 3)
10:00 AM. Agnė Gintalaitė (Lithuania). Contexts of generated images: from the collective imagination and ontological turn to individual, as the centre of value, perspective
11:00 AM. Franek Ammer (Poland). Performative Photobooks
12:00 PM. Vilma Šileikienė, Eglė Piščikaitė (Lithuania). From a photo postcard to an international exhibition
5:00 PM. Artist talks (VAA Nida Art Colony, E. A. Jonušo St. 3)
Dovilė Dagienė (Lithuania). Memories of Plants
Ieva Baltaduonytė (Lithuania). Uprooted
Elena Grudzinskaitė (Lithuania). Photo-graphic
Michel Campeau (Canada)
7:00 PM. Closing of the festival (VAA Nida Art Colony, E. A. Jonušo St. 3)
8:00 PM. Concert by Vladas Dieninis (Zuikio daržas, Nidos-Smiltynės Rd. 7a)
A few moments from last year (2022) NIDA.Meeting Photography
Lithuanian Photographers Association, 2023
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