Interformat

Curators: Vytautas Michelkevičius, Jodi Rose and Mindaugas Gapševičius
Welcome to the non-stop event shifting from performance to lecture to basketball game to sauna broadcast to performative discussion to artists guided site/sight/seeing to discursive dinner to role play to interactive buffet to screening to imaginary cartography to workshop to tea ritual to slow reading to sonic massage to knowledge sharing to book launch to critical sauna to guided orientation to conceptual sentiments.
„This whole program is perverse,“ says Rasa Antanavičiūtė, Executive Director of Nida Art Colony; „it's all about pleasure.“ Welcome to the intersensory interdisciplinary Inter-Format symposium at Nida Art Colony. We aim to create space for interactions to please your senses, stimulate your mind, lift your spirit and facilitate connections.
The symposium is hosting 40 artists, curators, researchers and practitioners to reinvent the format of presenting and sharing art, knowledge and experience. One of the key features of contemporary culture is the changing role of the artist, who sometimes assumes the role of a researcher and curator, and vice versa. Where are the borders of these roles? How could a serious researcher and theorist do a performance, and how could a playful artist do serious research and theorize?
Along the Symposium we launch the 4th TRACES Edition. The contributions of the Edition will supplement the symposium broadening the artistic expression and inquiring into the research and practices covering reinvention of interdisciplinary forms.
We are kindly inviting artists, curators, and researchers to think of unconventional Fluxus actions, to think of the gap, space or hole, to think of light, wind or water, all one can grasp but not really define. Articles, images, sound and video files are kindly appreciated for inclusion into the Interformat Edition. Please send your material to [email protected]
Full programme of the symposium is available at http://www.nidacolony.lt.
The TRACES Edition is hosted at http://www.t-r-a-c-e-s.net/editions/interformat
The symposium is part of T-R-A-C-E-S.net project, organized together with Transcultures (Mons, BE) and IRZU (Ljubljana, Slovenia). It is supported by the European Commission Culture Programme 2007-2013, the Pro Helvetia, and the Culture Support Foundation of the Republic of Lithuania.