Atletika gallery is inviting artists residing in Nordic and Baltic countries to an exhibition-oriented residency in Vilnius at cultural centre SODAS 2123. The residency is foreseen to take place 1 September – 31 October 2022 with an exhibition opening in the middle of the second month of the residency at Atletika gallery.
Humanity has arrived at an intriguing juncture in history, one in which current innovations are being praised as both the most significant challenge and the ultimate hope. Many different opinions exist throughout the abundance of information, and more are inexorably emerging about the opportunities, challenges and effects of new technologies for human in the future. One of the challenges is a growing sense of uncertainty. We are repeatedly reminded to recognise and rethink non-human intelligence, whether it may be fungi creating a collaborative network of the forest or artificial intelligence using human-like neural networks to learn. It is important to be centred on how we want to step into the new era of living together with non-human intelligence, rather than obsessing about the possibility of it taking over the world scenarios.
Non-human can be seen as the universal symbol of the ambiguous partnership between humanity and the other. Non-human today might be anything: a gaming algorithm, a world, fungi, the whole financial stock exchange, data accumulation, blockchain technologies or machine learning. It consists of a broader range of minds not exclusively limited to a physical entity. This offers a variety of intriguing possibilities for narration. We ought to open up the human understanding to other kinds of intelligence and perception, recognise our interconnectedness with another kind of species, and take a fresh look around expanding the definition of authorship where the work can be created by non-human entities or in collaboration with it.
This residency is organised with support from Nordic Council of Ministers and is oriented towards artists permanently residing in Nordic or Baltic countries (except Lithuania). Two artists will be selected and invited to live, work and present their practices in Vilnius in a group exhibition at Atletika gallery.
The residency provides a grant of 1800 EUR per artist (inclusive of taxes) and accommodation and shared studio space.
