International Photography Symposium NIDA. Meeting Photography
Lectures, artist talks, workshops, exhibitions, projections
September 9–15, 2024
VAA Nida Art Colony (E. A. Jonušo St. 3)
Curonian Spit History Museum (Pamario St. 53)
Mizgiriai Artist Residency (Pamario St. 20)
Nida Community Centre (Taikos St. 17)
Lighthouse keeper's house (Švyturio St. 1)
Thomas Mann Museum (Skruzdynės St. 17)
Lectures, artist talks, workshops, exhibition openings, photo and film screenings, and concerts will take place during the International Photography Symposium “Nida. Meeting Photography”. One photographer will be awarded the Neringa Mayor’s Prize.
PROGRAM
Monday, Sept. 9. Workshops
Arturas Valiauga. Social environmental portrait: documentary and association of photography
Mindaugas Janušaitis. RA4 Colour Reversal Photography Workshop
Youvalle Levy. The Bildband Berlin Zine Making Workshop
Workshops take place September 9–11
Tuesday, Sept. 10. Opening
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM. Registration (LPA Infocentre, Nida Community Centre, Taikos St. 17)
5:30 PM. Ieva Maslinskaitė exhibition As Wild as Witnessed opening (Thomas Mann Museum stairway, Skruzdynės St. 17)
6:00 PM. Gintautas Trimakas exhibition opening (Curonian Spit History Museum, Pamario St. 53)
Opening of International Photography Symposium NIDA. Meeting Photography
Neringa Mayor’s Prize
7:00 PM. Zenonas Bulgakovas exhibition opening (Mizgiriai Artist Residency, Pamario St. 20)
8:00 PM. Sergej Vutuc exhibition opening-performance (Lighthouse keeper's house, Švyturio St. 1)
Wednesday, Sept. 11
Lectures (VAA Nida Art Colony, E. A. Jonušo St. 3)
10:00 AM. Agnė Narušytė (Lithuania). Humanist Photography as a Tool to Criticise the Soviet Occupation
11:00 AM. Geistė Kinčinaitytė (UK/Lithuania). A dizzying dive into the mirages of algorithmic magic: Hito Steyerl’s installation This is the Future / Power Plants (2019)
12:00 PM. Naoko Tamura (Japan). Monologues and dialogues try to connect on the bridge above that abyss
5:00 PM. Artist talks (VAA Nida Art Colony, E. A. Jonušo St. 3)
Eglė Vertelkaitė (Lithuania)
Ieva Stankutė (Lithuania)
Ieva Maslinskaitė (Netherlands/Lithuania)
Sergej Vutuc (Bosnia and Hercegovina / Croatia / Germany)
9:00 PM. Projection night. Screening of residency competition finalists’ works (Nida Community Centre, Taikos St. 17)
Thursday, Sept. 12
Lectures (VAA Nida Art Colony, E. A. Jonušo St. 3)
10:00 AM. Liisa Makinen, Terhi Asumaniemi (Finland). Photographic Centre Nykyaika and Backlight Photo Festival
11:00 AM. Tomas Pabedinskas (Lithuania). Rock culture up close: Personal archives of Lithuanian photographers in the field of arts
12:00 PM. Laima Kreivytė (Lithuania). Photography in the work of Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė and Igoris Piekuras
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)
Kotryna Ūla Kiliulytė (Scotland/Lithuania)
Simon Chang (Taiwan/Slovenia)
Gintaras Česonis (Lithuania)
Mindaugas Kavaliauskas (Lithuania)
9:00 PM. Film night with Mindaugas Meškauskas.19th Century Photographer's Legacy. Dir. M. Meškauskas, documentary f., 2022, Lith., Eng. subt., 70 min. N-7 (Nida Community Centre, Taikos St. 17)
Friday, Sept. 13
Lectures (VAA Nida Art Colony, E. A. Jonušo St. 3)
10:00 AM. Jogintė Bučinskaitė (Lithuania). From a grey area to tertiary retention: the history of contemporary art written through photographic images
11:00 AM. Paulius Petraitis (Lithuania). From Boundaries to Networks: Notes on Evolving Paradigms of Photographic Meaning
12:00 PM. Agnė Gintalaitė (Lithuania). Chasing the Digital Truth
5:00 PM. Artist talks (VAA Nida Art Colony, E. A. Jonušo St. 3)
Malvina Jelinskaitė (Lithuania)
Vytenis Jankūnas (Lithuania/USA)
Arūnas Kulikauskas (Lithuania)
9:00 PM. Film night with Arūnas Kulikauskas. Back from New York. Dir. R. Rakauskaitė, documentary, 2021, Eng. sub. 62 min. N-13 (Nida Community Centre, Taikos St. 17)
Saturday, Sept. 14
Lectures (VAA Nida Art Colony, E. A. Jonušo St. 3)
10:00 AM. Paul Kuimet (Estonia). Surface and Picture. Notes on Modernist and Contemporary Photography
11:00 AM. Adam Mazur (Poland). The landscape of Polish photography today
12:00 PM. Juan Varela (Spain). How we make PHotoESPAÑA
5:00 PM. Artist talks (VAA Nida Art Colony, E. A. Jonušo St. 3)
Vilma Samulionytė (Lithuania)
Dalia Mikonytė (Lithuania)
Donatas Stankevičius (Lithuania)
Gytis Skudžinskas (Lithuania)
7:00 PM. Closing of the festival (VAA Nida Art Colony, E. A. Jonušo St. 3)
8:00 PM. Closing event. Vilius Ančeris (guitar) (Sangrita, Taikos St. 32)
Sunday, Sept. 15
Departure and visits to seaside exhibitions
