October 9, CAC reading room (Vokiečių 2, Vilnius)

“FIRST CUT: practical approaches to writing and publishing”  is dedicated to practical work with critical texts: text editing, comprehension, journalism.

11:00 – 13:00 Simon Rees
13:00 – 13:30 coffee brake
13:30 – 15:30 Ellie Levenson

October 23, NGA conference hall (Konstitucijos ave. 22, Vilnius)

Object of research –  art criticism in the expanded field (forms, functions, strategies). Lectures and discussions will embrace such subjects:

- Style, genre, form and theme of the text and identity of publisher
- The functions of art criticism. Power relations, discursive conjunctions, performative acts. Text and beyond it.
- Strategies of communication of the art criticism: to whom, how, when, and why?

10:00-12:00 Jan Verwoert
12:00-12:20 coffee brake
12:20-14:20 Anders Kreuger
14:20-15:20 lunch
15:20-17:20 Vivian Rehberg

November 6, CAC reading room (Vokiečių  2, Vilnius)

The third day is intended to work on so-called Case Studies. The speakers will introduce authentic, original ways of writing, their research on text as art and art as text.

10:00 – 12:00 Will Holder
12:00 – 12:20 coffee brake
12:20 – 14:20 Jalal Toufic
14:20 – 15:20 lunch
15:20 – 17:20 Maria Fusco

November 20, NGA conference hall (Konstitucijos ave. 22, Vilnius)

This day is dedicated to show possibilities of contemporary art research in wider contexts: literature, contemporary psychoanalysis, philosophy. The workshop is aimed to reveal the necessity of interdisciplinarity analyzing processes of contemporary art.   Later that day the attention will switch to a Lithuanian context of art criticism through an analysis of particular critical texts. The day will end with a panel discussion moderated by contemporary art critic and curator Laima Kreivytė.

10:00 – 10:30 Audronė Žukauskaitė
10:30 – 11:00 Artūras Tereškinas
11:30 – 12:00 Gintautas Mažeikis
12:00 – 13:00 coffee breake
13:00 – 13:30 Alfonsas Andriuškevičius
13:30  – 14:00 Erika Grigoravičienė
14:00 – 15:00 lunch
15:00 – 17:00 Laima Kreivytė (panel discussion)