TEXTILE TALK TALK TEXTILE
Lithuania, 2024
WORKSHOP –
TEXTILE TALK/ TALK TEXTILE
Practical creativity breeds new ideas.
NORDIC TEXTILE ART –ADVANCED DIALOGUE What happens when the habit is broken and the obvious is erased? When we challenge our relationship to the material and place it in new contexts?
Time: 4 – 11 August 2024.
Place: Kaunas, Lithuania
Participants
Members of the boards of textile organisations.
The Textile Artists’ Guild of Lithuania
The Finnish Association of Textile Artists TEXO
Estonian Textile Artists Association
Nordic Textile Art
Organizers
Nordic Textile Art, The Textile Artists’ Guild of Lithuania and Gallery Balta
Lithuanian team
Monika Žaltauskaitė Grašienė, Jolanta Šmitienė,
Renata Laurinavičiūteė, Emilei Šmidtaitei
Participant Artists
Lithuania Monika Žaltauskaitė Grašienė, Jolanta Šmitienė,
Renata Laurinavičiūteė, Emilei Šmidtaitei
Estonian Textile Artists Association
Aet Ollisaar, Heleri Alexandra Sits
TEXO Reika Vesala
Nordic Textile Art
Sweden Josabet Werkmäster, Elisabeth Brenner Remberg, Maria Johansson.
Finland Päivi Vaarula, Denmark Vibeke Lindhardt,
Norway Åse Eriksen, Kari Merete Paulasen
Iceland Lily Erla Adamsdóttír, Arnþrúður Ösp Karlsdóttír
5
August – Monday
Before lunch we met up in in Gallery “Balta” to hang and curate the up coming exhibition. We assisted each other and discussed how to hang our textile art pieces.
In the afternoon the group visited Lithuanian artist association gallery “Drobė“, located in a historical textile factory „Drobė“Artist Assocoation in Kaunas.
Important discussions of network and Gallery work took place after Artist and Head of Artist Association
Rebecka Bruder presented the association member Gallery and their way of working.
The evening activity was the event and pop up exhibition “Textile talk/Talk Textile” We had vernissage and opening at Gallery “Balta”.
Textile talks, each artist presented their work.
6 August – Tuesday
A new day and the the group started with a road trip travelling to Rumšiškės, visiting Ethnography Museum of Lithuania. Before lunch we had a workshop “Lithuania Sashes – from Tradition to Innovation” and lecture
with artist and head of archives of textile Rasma Noreikytė “Archaic Textile and Rituals”, in Ethnography Museum of Lithuania, Rumšiškės.
Late afternoon we arrived back at accommodation in Makniūnai village, Alytus district, Lithuania
7 August – Wednesday
This day was the big workshop day, presentation and lecture followed by a workshop in the topic “Textile Talk/ Talk Textile”. Artist Kreta Kardišiūtė presented her outdoor land art project of different venues.
We practiced “Talk with Textile – Talk with Nature”. The aim of the workshop is to find a relationship with nature, to talk to nature through textile methods. Create a situation, installation, action and capture it with the help of photo and video media.
In the evening discussions and reflection of the day took place over a concluding dinner.
8 August – Thursday
This day we traveled to Marcinkonys to visit “Verpėjos” organisation, close to Belarus border. https:// verpejos. lt/about/?lang=en Verpėjos (The
Spinners) is artist run initiative founded in 2017 by artist Laura Garbštienė to research and discuss rural traditional lifestyle and nature preservation, activate discourse on changes and processes, both local and global. Working with contemporary artists, curators, craftspeople and nature scientists “Verpėjos” organise interdisciplinary workshops, symposiums and exhibitions. We had lunch in Merkinė, traditional Lithuanian kitchen. On the way back we stoped at Merkinės Pyramid, The Place of Spiritual Experience and Healing https://merkinespiramide.lt/en/ homepage/
Back in Makniūnai village, Alytus district, Lithuania, we had the opportunity experience Lithuanian sauna ritual.
9 August –
Travelling day, back in Kaunas we visited National Museum of K. M. Čiurlionis, Kaunas Picture Gallery, Kaunas Photography Gallery, Galery „ Meno Parkas“
Conclusion meeting and end of Pop up exhibition “TEXTILE TALK/TALK TEXTILE”
5 August – Monday Meeting in gallery “Balta”.
Visiting Lithuanian artist association gallery “Drobė“, located in a historical textile factory „Drobė“.
Meeting with Artist Association Artist and Head of Artist Association Rebeka Bruder in Kaunas.
Pop up exhibition “TEXTILE TALK/TALK TEXTILE”, opening in Gallery “Balta”.
Galleri BALTA
https://galerijabalta.lt/en/
Participants in the Exhibition
Textile Talk/Talk Textile
Lithuania
Monika Žaltauskaitė Grašienė, Jolanta Šmitienė, Gertrūda Rumzytė, Greta Kardi, Lina Jonikė, Ineta Ignatavičiūtė, Emilei Šmitienė
Estonia
Aet Ollisaar, Heleri Alexandra Sits
Sweden
Josabet Werkmäster, Elisabeth
Brenner Remberg, Maria Johansson
Finland
Reika Vesala, Päivi Vaarula
Denmark
Vibeke Lindhardt, Norway Åse Eriksen, Kari Merete Paulasen
Iceland
Lily Erla Adamsdóttír, Arnþrúður Ösp
Karlsdóttír
INIT-TV made a report about the exhibition https://www.facebook.com/inittv/videos/715531774038234/?rdid=hLM6pBgNfl7XP4ze#
Heleri Alexandra Sits
Monika Žaltauskaitė
Maria Johansson
Emilei Šmitienė
Kari Merete Paulsen
Vibeke Lindhardt
From the left: Elisabeth Brenner Remberg, Arnþrúður Ösp Karlsdóttír, Kari Merete Paulasen, Emilei Šmidtaitei, Jolanta Šmitienė, Aet Ollisaar, Heleri Alexandra Sits, Maria Johansson, Åse Eriksen, Lily Erla Adamsdóttír, Vibeke Lindhardt, Rebeka Bruder, Josabet Werkmäster, Päivi Vaarula, Reika Vesala, Greta Kardi, Monika Žaltauskaitė
6 August – Tuesday
Very interesting visit to Ethnography Museum of Lithuania, Rumšiškės. https://lemu.lt/
Guided tours and special viewings of exhibitions and archives
Traveling to the countryside, Makniūnai village, Alytus district, Lithuania
Our stay in the countryside. A beautiful place where Jolanta Šmitienė invited us to her wonderful summer paradise.
7 August – Wednesday
Meeting and presentations in the topic “Textile Talk/Talk Textile”.
Artist Kreta Kardišiūtė presents her outdoors art projects.
Workshop “Talk with Textile -Talk with Nature”.
The aim of the workshop is to find a relationship with nature, to talk to nature through textiles and to talk to nature through textiles.
Greta Kardi
3. DAY Talk with nature
8 August – Thursday
Traveling to Marcinkonys and visit “Verpėjos” organization https:// verpejos.lt/ Verpėjos (The Spinners) is artist run initiative founded in 2017 by artist Laura Garbštienė to research and discuss rural traditional lifestyle and nature preservation, activate discourse on changes and processes, both local and global. Working with contemporary artists, curators, craftspeople and nature scientists we organise interdisciplinary workshops, symposiums and exhibitions.
A visit to Merkinės Pyramid, The Place of Spiritual Experience and Healing https://merkinespiramide.lt/en/ homepage/
Laura Garbštienė
https://verpejos.lt/
Visiting Marcinkonių station gallery. Group exhibition exhibition “Sampyna” by artists Austė Jurgelionytė-Varnė, Asta Vilhelmina Guðmundsdóttir and Laura Pavilonytė-Ežerskienė.
Visited artists residency Verpejos and Laura Garbštienė and the young designer Carolin Schelkle.
4. DAY
Supported by
Längmanska stiftelsen
Photos by Nordic Textile Art, Monika Žaltauskaitė Grašienė, Aet Ollisaar, Heleri Alexandra Sits