In autumn – winter 2020 Šilainiai Project was partner in the work of artist and athlete Marija Nemčenko, who made site-specific works in Šilainiai neighbourhood. These installations and professional instructions provided an inspiration to local youth to use the infrastructure that we have in a different way, be active and try out different sports! Art…
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ŠILAINIŲ BITĖS
[Please scroll down for English] Projektas: Šilainių Bitės (Šilainiai Bees) 2019 m. liepos 20 – rugpjūčio 11 dienomis Pranešimas spaudai – Atsisiųsti PDF versiją: Silainiu Bites spaudai 2019 Projekto rezultatų bukletas – Atsisiųsti PDF versiją: Silainiu Bites booklet Medunešė bitė Šilainių soduose, 2019 m. liepa. Vytauto Paplausko nuotrauka. „Šilainių bitės“ – tai dalyvaujamasis-tiriamasis projektas,…
Shota Kotake
Shota Kotake was born in Niigata, Japan 1988 and is currently based in Dublin, Ireland. Lithuanians were able to see his work in Vilnius at Now Japan festival 2016 and this will be his first visit to Kaunas. 2000th self-portrait in Manga style Ryuichi Hoshino, Hitoshi Hirano style Artist Statement Version 2.0 (January 2017)…
Katrina Brown
Katrina Brown has been a resident in Šilainiai 3-10 November 2017. Meeting with the artist at Šilainiai library (Baltų pr. 81, Kaunas) – 9 November 2017. Residency outcome – artist book STILLED: tilt/linger/concrete/ – Katrina_Brown_2017 (A3 PDF) S T I L L E D : t i l t / l i n g e r /…
Šilainiai [Paris] Project
14 July 2017, Kaunas, Lithuania ŠILAINIAI [Paris] PROJECT DĖL BASTILIJOS DIENOS Mes, Šilainių Projekto laisvieji menininkai ir mąstytojai, Atviro komunikacijos lauko inžinieriai, Vedami išsivadavimo iš erdvės į atvirus komunalinius kiemus, Skelbiame, jog Bastilijos šturmas yra būtinas ir neišvengiamas. Paryžius bus išvaduotas nuo sovietinio blokinio absoliuto, ir sukils į artistinę kovą prieš miegančius milžinus. Maištaujanti kūryba…
Šilainiai [Fortas] Project
ŠILAINIAI [FORTAS] PROJECT 2019 This year we collaborated with Kaunas Fortress festival “Battery” and Vestfold county, Norway to bring Norwegian performance to Šilainiai, Fort no. 8. It was a two day event 3-4 August, 2019. Almost 1000 people visited the event in two days, which broke all records of community participation at cultural events in the…
Street art in Šilainiai
Following requests from Šilainiai community members, we started to look more closely at these small buildings. We believe they are a perfect canvas for creativity! Walk in Šilainiai with local street artists, 2017. 2017 talks and discussions about street art. Vytenis Jakas artist talk in Kaunas J. Grušas Art gymnasium: watch here. Artist Tadas Šimkus giving…
Lahestan (Aleksander Haugen)
The improvised electronic music of Lahestan (Aleksander Haugen) (Norway) is based on sampling, electronic sounds, field recordings and live realtime sounds, processed through various effects. The atmosphere that is created consists of elements varying from abstract and ambient music to drones and industrial electroacoustic noise music. Since the music is improvised, what you hear is created…
Tadas Šimkus
This year we asked artist Tadas Šimkus, who grew up in Šilainiai, to come back to his native neighbourhood and create a public artwork here. There are a lot of Tadas’ works in central Kaunas and in other cities across the country, one of the most visible ones – ‘The Wise Man’, co-created with Žygimantas…
Poetry in Šilainiai
During her work in Šilainiai artist Evelina Šimkute have noticed an abundance of poets living in the area, however most of them have never met. There was no open platform for poetry readings in Silainiai, so Evelina has decided to organise poetry readings in public spaces. They took form of a walk that takes you…
Arata Mori
Arata Mori will be visiting Silainiai 23 – 24 July 2016. He will be showing one of his films and giving a talk in Silainiai library 23 July 2pm. Arata Mori is a Japanese Film Director, Editor, Video Artist, currently based in Berlin. His focus is mainly on creating moving image that crosses the border of…
The Lake Twins
The Lake Twins will be Artists In Residence in Šilainiai 15 – 24 August 2016. Artists profile: We are London based identical twin artists who have a degree in Fine Art from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. Our practice is predominantly site specific and multi-disciplinary, consisting of drawing, painting, film, installation and text based…
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