2014 Archives - The Good Neighbour

Towards a New Hybrid Fairland

Posted on December 7, 2015May 17, 2019 by mindaugas

Vita Zaman lives and works in Los Angeles and New York. She is a gallerist, curator, artist and advisor, interested in what hybrid forms the art space can take. She studied both Art History and Fine Art at Goldsmiths College and the RCA in London between 1995 and 2002. She was a founder and co-director of the IBID Projects (London /Los Angeles), headed the PACE gallery (New York) and was Artistic Director for the Vienna Fair (Vienna).

Currently Zamen is starting a new venture – the Perpetual Experts – which is an art production and distribution platform, malleable and adaptive in accordance with ‘the management of circumstances’.

Carving out history: when moments become monuments

Posted on December 7, 2015April 25, 2020 by mindaugas

Šerpytytė’s work is the result of an investigation into war and its consequences. Her recent work 1944 – 1991 is related to the period of “war after war”. Her series of NKVD-NKGB-MVD-MGB photos tell the stories of people that were interrogated and tortured in village houses. Rather than representing the buildings themselves, Serpytyte uses hand-carved wooden models, based on site visits and photographs excavated from the archives. Buildings in her works become the active participants in the process of torture, where everyday surroundings and elements of the house – the doors, handles and walls – become witnesses and partners in crime.

Indre Šerpytytė (b. Vilnius, 1983) lives and works in London. She is a photographer and researcher exploring the phenomena of memory and trauma. She graduated with a first–class MA in Photography at the Royal College of Art (2009) and is currently doing her PhD at the RCA in London. Her work is represented in public and private collections, including the Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

She is the recipient of numerous awards including: Magenta Bright Spark Award (2010); Hyeres International Festival; National Media Museum Bursary (2009); Hoopers Gallery prize; Metro Imaging prize; Jerwood Photography award winner (2006); the Fujifilm Distinction Award; and the Terry O’Neill Award. Her work has been published and exhibited widely including recent shows at Tate Modern.

Coding the digital: from net art to post-human future

Posted on December 7, 2015May 17, 2019 by mindaugas

“The definition of post-digital suggests it has a feature of hybridity, a balance of physical and virtual. Aside from the hybridisation, we can point to the generation born in the 1990s, who do not remember times without computers; the ‘digital’ is a given for them, per se.“

Mindaugas Gapševičius (b. 1974) is an artist, facilitator, and curator living and working in Berlin, London and Vilnius. He earned his MA at Vilnius Academy of Arts in 1999 and started his MPHIL/PhD research program at Goldsmiths University in 2010.

Gapševičius has been an active participant in international new media art networks, which stimulated the formation of networks between Western countries and the Baltic States in the 1990s. His work is most associated with net art, software and interactive user interfaces.

Publication as practice

Posted on December 7, 2015May 17, 2019 by mindaugas

Povilas Utovka (b. 1981, Varena) lives and works in London. He is a designer who is passionate about “grids and solutions that are simple and well thought through”, working mostly on art publications. Utovka graduated from the Royal College of Art, London in 2009 and formed the design practice Present Perfect with Ivan Markovic in 2011.

Together they have worked on exhibition catalogues and identities for Jimmie Durham, Jonas Mekas, Rose Wylie and various other artists. Utovka lives and works in New York.

Where tradition Mmets sinology

Posted on December 7, 2015April 25, 2020 by mindaugas

Eglė Jauncėms (b. 1984) is a visual artist currently working in London. After studying Sinology at university in Vilnius and Taipei, Jauncems moved to London where she gained a second BA in Weaving at Chelsea College of Art and Design. Her recent shows include Khobs at the Marrakech Biennial; Reproduction Failure curated by Slate Projects at Maybe a Vole Gallery (London); and Multiplied Art Fair presented by London Print Studio.

In 2015 Egle was a participant on the The Reykjavik Association of Icelandic Visual Arts residency and later in the same year she was awarded the first Hockney Arts Foundation Grant.