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Call for applications – Climbing Invisible Structures

Call for applications – Climbing Invisible Structures

in 2015, Calls for Application, News, Past program

Climbing Invisible Structures is a curated visual arts residency exchange and exhibition programme organised by the Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts (NAC) (Lithuania), in collaboration with the Office for Contemporary Art Norway, the Nordic Artists Centre Dale (Norway), Skaftfell Center for Visual Art (Iceland), and the Ars Communis Residency Centre YO-YO (Lithuania). Curators are Eglė Mikalajūnė and Samir Mkadmi. Visual artists based in or being nationals of Norway, Iceland or Lithuania are welcome to apply. Deadline May 24, 2015. CONCEPT According to the French philosopher Michel Foucault, disciplinary practices can be both symbolic and instrumental in shaping, […]

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The Frontiers in Retreat artists arrive

in 2014, Artists-in-Residence, News, Past exhibitions and events, Past program, Residency events and activities

The first artists participating in the Frontiers in Retreat project at Skaftfell, Kati Gausmann and Richard Skelton, arrived in Iceland in the end of August. Simultaneously the volcanic activity in South Iceland reached its peak and magma started flowing from Holuhraun. Hence it was very appropriate that the artists started their journey by attending a Geology seminar in Breiðdalssetur, a research and heritage centre located in the small town of Breiðdalsvík in the East. The seminar was held in honour of the British geologist George P.L. Walker who is noted for mapping the Terier lava pile in East Iceland in the sixties and […]

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