International Symposium in Nida

02.05.2013

On critical Tourism, Site-specificity and Post-romantic Condition

 

Nida Art Colony, Lithuania

 

 

The international symposium “On Critical Tourism, Site-specificity and Post-romantic Condition” is a 4-day-long event, in the frame of the cooperation project “On Hosting and Displacing” co-organised by Nida Art Colony, Lithuania and Ecole Cantonale d’Art du Valais in Sierre, Switzerland. More than 30 art professionals (artists, curators, researchers) will arrive to Nida to discuss and re-enact: the artist as tourist, artistic and curatorial practices in remote contexts as hospitality, museification of landscape, touristic gaze and the construction of places, critical artistic actions in alpine and seaside contexts, displacing artistic practices, etc. They keynote lectures will be given by Sibylle Omlin, Sebastian Cichocki and Wilko Graf von Hardenberg.

 

Within the cooperation, there are also short and long residencies taking place, both in Nida and Sierre. During April and May, the Swiss artist Gilles Furtwängler is staying at the residency in Nida Art Colony. He works across mediums of performance, spoken word, text, print, live sculpture and everything beyond and in between these fields. His residency will result, among others, in a live performance which will be realized at the symposium.

 

 

Project in the frame of the cooperation: „On hosting and ­­­displacing: artistic residencies and cultural production in remote contexts.”

Partners: Nida Art Colony in Lithuania and Ecole cantonal d’art du Valais (ECAV) in Switzerland.

Coordinators and curators: Vytautas Michelkevičius and Federica Martini

 

 

Le symposium international "On critical Tourism, site-specificity and Post-romantic Condition" est un événement de 4 jours, dans la veine de la coopération entre Nida Art Colony en Lituanie et l'Ecole cantonale d'art du Valais "On Hosting and Displacing". Plus de 30 professionnels de l'art (artistes, curateurs, chercheurs) seront là pour discuter et repenser l'artiste en tant que touriste, les pratiques artistiques et curatoriales dans un contexte de lieux retirés comme l'accueil, la muséification du paysage, etc. Les conférences seront données par Sibylle Omlin, Sebastien Cichocki et Wilko Graf von Hardenberg.

 

www.nidacolony.lt

 

Biennale de Venise

20.02.2013

Valentin Carron représente la Suisse à la Biennale de Venise

 

Venise, du 1er juin au 24 novembre 2013

 

 

Valentin Carron, ancien élève de l’ECAV, a été choisi par Pro Helvetia pour représenter la Suisse lors de la Biennale de Venise ! A 35 ans, cet artiste s’impose comme l’une des figures les plus éminentes de la jeune scène artistique suisse.

 

Valentin Carron, former student at the ECAV, has been chosen from Pro Helvetia to represent Switzerland for the Venice Biennale. The 35 year old artist is seen as one of the most eminent personnality of the young swiss artistic scene.

 

Plus d’information: www.biennials.ch