2-20 June 2009, Vilnius Academy of Arts
Tuesday, 2 June
9:30 – 10:00 Breakfast
10:00 – 13:00 Introduction and opening. Tutors and students present themselves.
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 18:00 Vilnius guided tour (on foot): recently built monuments (Adomas Mickevičius, Gediminas, Mindaugas, the Pipe, Kudirka, Zappa, the Hook, R. Kvintas public sculptures).
18:00 – 22:00 Opening dinner
Wednesday, 3 June
9:30 – 10:00 Breakfast
10:00 – 11:30 Guest speaker’s lecture: Horst Hoheisel German Art and Memory (Holocaust memorials in Germany), discussion
11:30 – 13:00 Mass deportations to Siberia after the World War II – historical overview (Genocide and Resistance Center of Lithuania)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 16:00 KGB Museum and video There Lived a Grandfather and a Grandmother (dir. Giedrė Beinoriūtė)
Thursday, 4 June
9:30 – 10:00 Breakfast
10:00 – 18:00 Vilnius guided tour (by bus): historical sites and representational spaces (Deportees memorial in the Naujoji Vilnia railway station, Tuskulėnai Peace Park, Jewish Holocaust site in Paneriai). Documentary Soviet Story. Lunch in between
Friday, 5 June
9:30 – 10:00 Breakfast
10:00 – 11:30 Guest speaker’s lecture: Horst Hoheisel Recent Projects in South America, discussion
11:30 – 13:00 Guest speaker’s lecture: Tomas Grunskis Lukiškių square competition 2005 – 2009
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 17:00 Discussion on the places visited and information obtained
19:00 – 22:00 Dinner
Saturday, 6 June
10:00 – 18:00 Guided fieldtrip: Grūtas park (Soviet sculpture exposition)
13:00 – 14:00 Tutors’ lecture: Ronald Jones I Saw This (I)
14:00 – 15:00 Lunch
Monday, 8 June
8:30 – 9:00 Breakfast
09:00 – 18:00 Kaunas guided tour (by bus): Kaunas: IX fort (memorial to Nazi victims built in Soviet times), Romas Kalanta memorial (by Robertas Antinis, 2002), War Museum Garden, etc.
14:00 – 15:00 Lunch
15:00 – 16:30 Tutors’ lecture: Helmut & Johanna Kandl Flee Market History, discussion
16:30 – 18:00 Free time in Kaunas
Tuesday, 9 June
9:30 – 10:00 Breakfast
10:00 – 11:30 Guest speaker’s lecture: Horst Hoheisel School Windows of Memory (based on Horst Hoheisel project for Vilnius in 2009), discussion
11:30 – 13:00 Guest speaker’s lecture: Esther Shalev-Gerz Monuments as Dialogues (based on Esther Shalev-Gerz works), discussion
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 15:30 Tutor’s lecture: Mikkel Bogh Making Past Present: recent theories of witness, comemoration, and trauma, discussion
15:30 – 17:00 Tutors’ lecture: Ronald Jones I Saw This (II)
Wednesday, 10 June
9:30 – 10:00 Breakfast
10:00 – 11:30 Guest speaker’s lecture: Esther Shalev-Gerz Dialogues as Monuments (based on Esther Shalev-Gerz works), discussion
11:30 – 13:00 Tutor’s lecture: Helmut & Johanna Kandl Concentration Camp Memorial in Austria (recent project by Helmut & Johanna Kandl), discussion
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 17:00 Meeting with the deportees. Algimantas Maceina documentary The Black Box
Thursday, 11 June
9:30 – 10:00 Breakfast
10:00 – 11:30 Guest speaker’s lecture: Esther Shalev-Gerz Duration and Sacrifice (based on Esther Shalev-Gerz works), discussion
11:30 – 13:00 Guest speaker’s lecture: Gintautas Alekna (Association “Lemtis” http://lemtissibiras.lt) Lithuanian Deportation Memorials in Russia
Documentary on deportation camps in Siberia (dir. Gintautas Alekna)
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 17:00 Workshop
19:00 – 22:00 Dinner
Friday, 12 June
9:30 – 10:00 Breakfast
10:00 – 11:30 Guest speaker’s lecture: Henrik B. Andersen, Sculpture Department, VAA, Daniel Libeskind’s Jewish Museum in Berlin, Vietnam Memorial in Washington D. C. and Tarkovsky’s “Andrei Rublev” in the Light of Michel Serres Book “Statues” (1987), discussion
11:30 – 13:00 Presentation of project ideas to peers, tutors and guest speakers
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 17:00 Presentation of project ideas to peers, tutors and guest speakers
Monday, 15 June
9:30 – 10:00 Breakfast
10:00 – 13:00 Workshop
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 17:00 Workshop
Tuesday, 16 June
9:30 – 10:00 Breakfast
10:00 – 13:00 Workshop
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 17:00 Workshop
Wednesday, 17 June
9:30 – 10:00 Breakfast
10:00 – 13:00 Workshop
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 17:00 Workshop
19:00 – 22:00 Dinner
Thursday, 18 June
9:30 – 10:00 Breakfast
10:00 – 11:30 Guest speaker’s lecture: dr. Günter Schlusche, Berlin Wall Memorial Foundation (Berlin, Germany), The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, discussion
11:30 – 13:00 Workshop
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
14:00 – 17:00 Workshop
Friday, 19 June
9:30 – 10:00 Breakfast
10:00 – 17:00 Workshop, installation and preparation of works for the presentation
13:00 – 14:00 Lunch
Saturday, 20 June
11:00 – 13:00 Presentation of created projects to peers, tutors and public
17:00 – 20:00 Closing dinner
20:00 – 02:00 Opening of the presentation of created projects: part of the Vilnius 2009 European Capital of Culture event Culture Night: Let there be Night