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Pragiedruliai
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Current Open Call (2023)
MAKE US MAKE SENSE - the name of the first Pragiedruliai residence program. This topic is an invitation to rethink, to take a critical look at frequently heard words: community, creativity, sustainability. After being spoken to and heard many times, they began to look meaningless, lost their colour, and became formless.
MAKE US MAKE SENSE - a request to search for new meanings, and depth, raise questions, reconsider the use of words. Do we believe in the words community, creativity, and sustainability, because they are written in the vocabulary of the project? Does it touch on the social, progress, and ecological aspects? What alternatives to these terms can we look for? What can be false, strange, crooked, extended, or transcended in them?
The works presented during the residency are a response, a comment to this invitation.
Pragiedruliai - a creativity centre established in Skaistakalnis Park in the centre of Panevėžys city. There are art, design, applied theatre, audio-video and alternative photography studios, an exhibition space, and a forest garden open to city residents.
Outcome
The residents will be able to share their creative practices and the results conveyed during the residency through an open workshop, artist talk, or exhibition.
Studio Information
The resident will be provided with a 23 sq. m. studio and will have all the necessary equipment for a living. This space is dedicated to residents' research, creating processes, and life. It is also possible to use all the studios and equipment in Pragiedruliai.
Technical Information
Pragiedruliai invites interdisciplinary artists from Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway to apply for the residency program.
Location
The centre consists of a 1920-built homestead by the poet Juozas Čerkesas-Besparnis and the newly implemented architectural project. The history of the homestead is authentic. When the poet lived, the intellectuals of that time gathered here - writers, lawyers, pedagogues, and other intelligentsia. During the Soviet era, after the homestead owner died, this place was nationalized and then abandoned. After several years of reconstruction, the red-brick building is full of cosiness, inviting you to experiment and share ideas.
The Skaistakalnis Park surroundings were formed in pagan times, from where the name of the park originates. The word "skaistus" is associated with the word "holy" and denotes the sacred significance of the area. This is one of the oldest city parks in Panevėžys. Two rivers flow in its territory, and avenues of old trees grow.
Pragiedruliai is a new project surrounded by an industrial city and nature. It is important for us that residents understand and appreciate the fragility of the forming process. At the same time, residents would help to ground and become facilitators of creating an authentic relationship with the environment.
