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This research explored effective situated digital communication strategies in the context of contemporary Sámi art, focusing on the facilitation of dialogue between artists and viewers and between lecturers and learners across geographic areas. The primary research question centered on how these strategies can be sufficiently clear, accurate, and c...
We are living in times of data-driven selves and data-defined artistic personas, an age in which the action of border-crossing has become a normative within an artistic work and an artist's life. We might cross the physical borders or the borders of our normatives. Each case of border-crossing awakens our awareness. The question of how an artwork i...
This article explores the experiences of a non-Sámi project manager and educator working with a group of Sámi curators within a unique educational program designed for the Sámi community. Based on artistic research, this study focuses on the challenges and learning opportunities encountered, emphasizing the importance of cultural exchange and under...
The chapter discusses challenges in EEG technology-based performance and the self-tailored PhD process for internationalisation and network building. It showcases a case from a PhD program at the University of Lapland, Finland by a Lithuanian performance artist and researcher. The chapter addresses the key steps in the internationalisation of the P...
This essay discusses the interconnectedness of performance and teaching, along with the impact of this interconnectedness on enhancing the learning experience for multicultural groups. The author argues that performance can be used as a pedagogical tool in both formal classroom settings and short-term workshops and can be an effective way of explai...
This research investigates the visual narrative built within artworks that deal with colonial memory in Sapmi, and the heavy layers of history in the Baltics, particularly Lithuania during the Soviet era. The research question is: How can themes of Gulag, colonial history and traumatic transgenerational memory be addressed by the artists and by cur...
This research is focused on the development of a new methodology to curate political performance art from the Baltic countries and Sápmi. Sámi and Baltic artists share a colonial history connected to their traditional lands, which is often why they work with such politically loaded themes. A more complete understanding of their artworks by audience...
The study explores the connectedness of the narrative of the artwork to the sociopolitical contexts of the public space in change. Through the reflexive artistic research within the project “Construction” I aim to discuss how Memory is bound to the Body. I investigate how Constructs of the public space embody the Memory and how demolishing of those...
The paper explores multiple perspectives on curating indigenous art and builds upon the case project of the nongraduate program for Sámicurators and its part realized in autumn 2022 at the SámiCenter for Contemporary Art in Karasjok. The curatorial ways are discussed from a threefold perspective: decolonizing curatorial practice, nonhierarchy of na...
This essay explores the development of an artistic persona and choices within the creative processes of border-crossing artists. Similar to the act of border crossing, the transcorporeal experience contains attempts to enter the unity of the body of the artist and the artwork with the socio-politics of the new site for artistic expression. In the a...
This article explores the strategies employed by educators at the Sámi Center for Contemporary Art in Karasjok, Norway, in the production of educational materials related to an exhibition by Sámi duodji artist Per Isak Juuso. The study examines the process of creating materials that are suitable for various age groups of children and youth, and app...
This research explores student performance art events in the current digital era. Public performance presentations by art students after the performance art course are intended to complete an artistic cycle. The artistic cycle in the digital era is divided into studio-based practice (when performance is planned, often in students’ home studios) and...
The phenomenon explored in this research is participatory site-specific performance art, themed around eco-violence, climate change and water pollution, which is discussed within a framework of the decolonisation of knowledge through arts-based action research and a pluriversal approach to participants' experiences. The two case projects were condu...
This article presents arts-based action research on enhancing children’s creativity through affect within participatory performance art and performance pedagogy. The study hypothesis was that children’s creativity can be enhanced by affect experienced at a performance site. The purpose of the study was to investigate the impact of children’s involv...
This research analyzes performance art that uses biometric data, based on two concept perspectives – inhuman interconnections and transcorporeality – applied to examples of European performance art from Lithuania, Finland, Poland, and Denmark. The term performance art theoretically refers to all art that involves the human body, human biometric dat...
The research explores how to create a dialogue with youth and children about climate change and water pollution using arts-based methods (ABR), exemplified by two cases of artwork. The aim of the research is to create recommendations for artists, collaborating with environmental scientists, within NGOs on how to work within InterMedia and complete...
The phenomenon researched in this essay is performance art with a particular focus on interactive performance at large-scale events, such as art fairs. This research focuses on two performance art cases performed at the Supermarket Art Fair in Sweden in 2017 and at the ArtVilnius Art Fair, in Lithuania in 2018. The cases are analyzed by the author...
This study explores knotworks and networks within art, participatory performance design, the environment and education specialists and institutions within the case-project “Nomadic Radical Academy”, realised in 2019 and 2020. The novelty of the research lies in its investigation of how international collaborations impact the performance pedagogy pr...
In this paper, a performance artist aims to present reflexive narrative-building as autoethnography through the photographic documentation of decolonization-themed Lithuanian performance art. The question within this paper is how the narratives of Lithuanian performance art deal with decolonization through a reflexive study of the photo documentati...
This study explores knotworks and networks within art, participatory performance design, the environment and education specialists and institutions within the case-project “Nomadic Radical Academy”, realised in 2019 and 2020. The novelty of the research lies in its investigation of how international collaborations impact the performance pedagogy pr...
Educators practice performance pedagogy as the method where an educator/facilitator is seen as a performer or actor (Pineau 1994, p. 4). This paper presents an analysis of the historical roots of performance pedagogies in Fluxus pedagogies and performance pedagogy practices within participatory art events in Lithuania as exemplified by festivals AN...
The normatives of performance documentation through writing, photography, audio, and video have not changed since the very beginning of performance art (Griniuk, 2019). The states of relaxation or attention of the performer during live action are not easily captured through photo, video, or sound documentation. Technological developments that have...
Published in "Literatūra ir menas" (Literature and art") journal. Language: Lithuanian. https://literaturairmenas.lt/daile/marija-griniuk-hepeningai-ir-kulturines-politikos-kritika-lietuvoje
19th century folk icons of Podolia region (Ukraine) were not taken into consideration by art critics as historically valuable until the late 19th century. The first articles devoted to this theme by L. Popova, V. Svencickaya and V. Otkovich appeared in the mid 80’s. Podolia region icons differ technically compared to icons of other regions of the s...
