VISUAL ARTISTS / VIZUALIEJI MENAI​

Jurgita Alminaitė

Afrikos įkvėpta paroda, sukurta iš prisiminimų, jausmų, kelių parsigabentų daiktų ir Jurgitos grafikos darbų, kurie gimė grįžus iš kelionės po Afriką. Ieškant ramybės, norint sustoti, pagalvoti, įsigilinti į popieriaus tekstūrą, eksperimentuoti su įvairiais dažais, panyrant į unikalias gyvenimo kelionės istorijas. Afrika yra daugiatautė, daugiakultūrė ir nevienalytė. Ir ši paroda, pripildyta įvairių istorijų ir patyrimų kviečia keliauti po autentišką autorės istoriją. Jurgita Alminaitė – menininkė, papuošalų kūrėja, grafikė, Žagarėje įkūrusi juvelyrikos dirbtuves „Craftsmen on the Road“.

Židrija Janušaitė

11th May / gegužės 11 d. (19.00 val)

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APIE TRAPUMĄ
Keli paskutiniai metai, sukrėtę visą pasaulį, leido suvokti, patirti žmogaus gyvenimo ir jo tarpsnių trapumą, išgyventi slenkstines būsenas, atrasti savo pačių jausmų, poreikių, galimybių turtingumą. Metaforiškai apie trapumą, jo kintantį grožį bei turtingumą kalbu ieškodama sąsajų augalų gyvenimo transformacijose, kintančių formų atradimuose, stebėjimuose bei jų fiksavime fotofrafijoje ar skulptūrinių objektų sukūrime. 

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Zidrija is Lithuanian artist working in painting, installation, land art, video and performance art, organizer of art events, active in Lithuanian and international art field since 2007. Zidrija’s artworks are defined by stillness; her art opens up to an experience of intense meditative silence, which is being personal, is shared with whoever choices to enter the special time space created by an artist. Her arts are mostly meditative, calming and mind relaxing. On another hand this is how she creates the loop for particular and always individual comprehension, perception of viewer. (Vaida Tamoseviciute, artist and curator)

BEAUTY OF FRAGILITY

The last few years have shaken the whole world, allowed us to understand and experience the fragility of human life and its stages, to survive thresholds states, to discover the richness of our feelings, needs and possibilities. I speak metaphorically about the fragility, the richness of changing beauty, looking for connections in the transformations of plant life, in the discovery of changing forms and their capture in the photographs or sculptural objects and installation composed of them. This idea of fragile beauty of nature, of human life I brought from my country, but the main inspiration and realization happened here in India at Art Junction residency, where I have spend more than 3 month. Every moment of our life is beautiful with all its changed forms, states and its fragility.
https://zidrijajanusaite.com/en

Natural Dyeing Workshop - Yonggu Shin (South Korea)

11th May / gegužės 11 d. (17.30 val)

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Sarah Richardson

Workshop: Introduction to Creative Writing

Introduction to creative writing with Sarah Richardson will explore the foundations of creative writing. Looking at building structure, exploring themes or simply how to get an idea out of your head and onto paper, we will go through a series of exercises and writing tasks to get the pen flowing and over the hump of starting a project!
A mixture of prompts, writing time and discussions will take place and all questions are welcome!
The workshop will be led by Sarah Richardson who is an award winning, published playwright and spoken word artist.

Židrija Janušaite and Eva Vēvere - Installation

12th - 14th May / gegužės 12 - 14 d. (TBC)

 A GREENHOUSE COULD BE
A Greenhouse could be a small model of Being. The space where activity of people creates poiesis. It means - the way to be. And through this way poiesis becomes the original site of Being's disclosure.
A Greenhouse could be an auxiliary building characteristic of Lithuania and the wider Baltics, a coherently utilized structure in post-socialist society which has not forgotten how to grow its own vegetables.
A Greenhouse could be a stage for earth-based rituals like planting a seed and later gathering the fruits.
A Greenhouse could be an artist's studio, a storage space, a fish drying barn, or an ambitious realm of an Instagram gardener.
A Greenhouse could be a part of a wide rhizomatic structure that covers female labour in semi -transparent plastic.
A Greenhouse could be a space for escape and solitude.
A Greenhouse could be a place to experience the fragility of time.
A Greenhouse could be a microworld that maintains temperature and moisture and gives you a sense of control.
A Greenhouse could be a location with its own life, memory and mood, upon entering which you become the Other.
 
Židrija Janušaite, Eva Vēvere, 2023

Fuji Hoffmann [SWE] - Visual Spa

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Welcome to Visual Spa, an oasis for your eyes, and resting place for your mind and body . Experience a liquid meditation with other worldly shapes and colours from inner and outer space.
Please enjoy the trip. Welcome as you are. 

Visual Spa is made on the OverHead projector with water and water colours. It is a calm performance for all ages. No language.

Assemble the Pieces of Dreams - Yonggu Shin (South Korea)

14th May / gegužės 14 d. (TBC)

Performance and Installation


Floating Stories - Jelena Kovačev and Valerija Djanješić (Croatia) 

Workshop - 12th May / gegužės 12 d. (15val. Meno Mokykloje)

Installation - 13th May / gegužės 13 d.

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The work is composed of street performance/a workshop, set out in the public space of Žagare, where passers-by are to be invited to immerse themselves in the meditative Japanese technique of suminagashi. Suminagashi (墨 流 し/sue-me-NAH-gah-she) or "floating ink" is the process of drawing on the surface of water, and leaving the drawing on the paper with water and ink, believed to be the oldest form of marbling, recorded in China more than 2,000 years ago. The process will be given to all who want to try it in a performative way by the artist duo, and the fragments collected by many hands of street wonderers are to be collected and turned to wind turning objects, set as an installation to catch the winds of the city.

JOLITA PULEIKYTĖ - Gatvės meno

14th May / gegužės 14 d. (TBC)

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Festivalio menu menininkė kur gatvės meno kūrinį nagrinėjantį žaidimo temą per vaizdinį ir tas akimirkas, kai taškai beveik beveik įkrenta, tačiau žaidimo procesas labai malonus ir tame vaizde užčiuopiamas malonumas ir mėgavimasis.
Menininkė apie save:
 „Esu stebėtoja, ‘’žinutes’’ užmatytas, pajaustas aplinkoje perteikiu į vizualus. Ilgą laiką kūryboje šoka: dykumos, asfalto, idiliškumo, haliucinacijų ir iliuzijų temos. Saldžiuose vaizduose esama kartėlio, tačiau jis lyg mylėjimo gyvenimą poskonis - ragina dar kart užsisakyti TO kokteilio. Kuriu flomasteriais, karais tušu ir kitomis grafikos priemonėmis, kada jų neturiu - po ranka planšetė, kurioje skaitmeniniai darbai pildosi

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Jolita will create a street art piece that explores the theme of play through imagery and those moments when the dots almost almost fall, but the process of play is very pleasurable and there is a sense of enjoyment and pleasure in that image.
The artist about herself:
 "I am an observer, I translate the 'messages' I see and feel in the environment into visuals. The themes of desert, asphalt, idyll, hallucination and illusion have been dancing in my work for a long time. There is a bitterness in the sweet images, but it is like the aftertaste of a lifetime of loving - it calls for another order of the TO cocktail. I work with felt-tip pens, ink and other printmaking tools when I don't have them - I have a tablet handy, where the digital works come to life"

ART ON WHEELS

14th May / gegužės 14 d. (TBC)

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Art centre NOASS together with art studio Fargefabrikken (NO), has created a travelling exhibition of contemporary art for children and youth.

The exhibition, located in two minivans, offers an interactive exhibition and a creative workshop, getting to know the use of technology in art. Four artists from Latvia and Norway have participated in the project, and with the help of children of two pilot schools, created new works of art in various media. The travelling exhibition is accompanied by a thoughtful educational programme that will foster children’s creativity in an informal, supportive and encouraging way.

“Art on Wheels” is a project funded by the European Economic Area (EEA) grant programme “Local Development, Poverty Reduction and Cultural Cooperation.” The project receives a grant of €206,518 from the EEA grants of Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway, and State co-financing in the amount of €36,444. The project implementation period is from November 1, 2022, to April 30, 2024.
The project is supported by Novum Riga Charitable Foundation.