Artists for residency program of the symposium NIDA. Meeting Photography are selected
In May 2024 the artist residency program, which is part of the international photography symposium “NIDA. Meeting Photography”, will start its third edition. After the announced open call, there was selected one artist for 2024 and one for 2025, who will stay and create in Nida and 21 runners up, whose work will participate in symposiums evening projections program in September. The program is run in collaboration with VAA Nida Art Colony.
The aim is to reflect on Nida’s site-specific ecosystems and the changing boundaries of photography, to actualize photography both as a medium and as a means of expression. The program seeks to attract artists with a critical approach towards using their production tools, questioning the cultural discourse of their practice, and having a strong socio-political mindset.
Some 103 artists from 35 countries responded to the open call with 251 projects.
In the resident selection committee participated the book designer Gytis Skudžinskas; residency patron Audronė Tylaitė; curator and NIDA.Meeting Photography programmer Vilma Samulionytė; and Head of VAA Nida Art Colony Egija Inzulė.
The evaluation criteria included the importance and relevance of the proposed topic, the applicant’s previous experience and his or her interest and ability to actualize by combining local specifics, an expanded field of photography and their creative activities.
The finalist for 2024 after evaluation became Ieva Maslinskaitė and for 2025 - Corina Gertz.
Ieva Maslinskaitė is an interdisciplinary artist from Lithuania, currently working between Vilnius and the Netherlands. Driven by the belief that moving towards being ecological requires destabilising our binary thinking towards the environment, her interest lies in co-creating with other species, such as microorganisms or fungi, as well as organic and artificial processes to make temporary and mutating installations, sculptures, and other image-based works. Coming from a photography background, her practice is centred around dismantling the medium from an anthropocentric perspective and putting it back together through an ecocentric perspective, which often requires counteracting contemporary image culture’s aims of being fixed, reproducible and permanent.
The results of the residency will be presented at the International Photography Symposium NIDA. Meeting Photography in the main program in September 9-15, 2024 and it will be published in the form of a printed publication.
Photos by Ieva Maslinskaitė
Authors, whose work will be a part of the evening projections:
Vėtrė Aleksandravičiūtė (Lithuania)
Rehina Bukvych (Ukraine)
Monika Dubinkaite (Lithuania)
Gevi (Indonesia)
Freisy Gonzalez (Venezuela)
Claudia Heinermann (Germany/Netherlands)
Florence Iff (Switzerland)
Mai S. Keldsen (Denmark)
Geistė Marija Kinčinaitytė (Lithuania/UK)
Maria Kjartans (Iceland)
Hans Kuzmich (USA)
Lillo (France)
Akshay Mahajan (India)
Emilia Martin (Poland/Netherlands)
Aliona Paz (Byelorussia/Norway)
David Peinado (Mexico/UAE)
Zula Rabikowska (Poland/UK)
Vytis Šulinskas (Lithuania)
Gedvilė Tamošiūnaitė (Lithuania/Germany)
Beatrice Ventura (Italy)
Junichi Wajda (Japan)
