Šilainiai Zine cover illustration by Tadas-Vincaitis Plūgas
Tag: Lithuania
Šilainiai [Biodiversity] project
Biodiversity in Šilainiai neighbourhood, Kaunas, Lithuania. Kaunas city is changing rapidly and in this fast pace it is easy to overlook the details, even though they are important to us. In 2019, during the project “Šilainiai Bees” (Šilainių bitės), local community members have identified, that bees are important to them, however, there is a problem…
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,…
ŠILAINIAI URBAN FURNITURE
In summer 2019 we organised urban furniture workshops in Šilainiai neighbourhood, because simply we severely lack benches. It is the first time we did this, so we invited Lasnaidee – active community association team from Tallin, Estonia, to share their experience and teach us how to do it. Here are some moments from the workshops: Lasnaidee team…
ŠILAINIAI URBAN GARDENS
I have happiness and pleasure here. I love earth. Having been born in the countryside. During warm months I spend four hours per day here. Fresh air. I gain health here. In these gardens I prolong life. Ona – Zita, senior from Šilainiai. Events at Šilainiai Urban Gardens, summer 2019 (middle part in English). For all up to…
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…
Šilainiai Project 