Space nursing x VARES

16:00 - 18:00

Valga parish | VARES Arhitektuuriresidentuur

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Join Augustas Lapinskas and Ditiya Ferdous (@Space Nursing) for a walkshop exploring Valga's abandoned buildings and urban wastelands.

Space Nursing is a communal art practice which combines artistic research, spatial activism, and experimental architecture to reframe urban wastelands as sites of rich ecological and symbolic spatial potential. In this walkshop, participants will get a chance to observe Valga’s microscopic inhabitants through portable microscopes that reveal the vibrant ecologies and biodiversity that exists in “waste-spaces”. We will see Augusts’ and Ditiya’s interventions–site specific bio-active “nurseries” on Valga’s derelict buildings. The workshop will conclude with a waste foliage floral arrangement workshop. Participants get to build their own floral sculpture turning unruly plant material into unique arrangements.

𝐀𝐮𝐠𝐮𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐬 𝐋𝐚𝐩𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐤𝐚𝐬 is an architect from Vilnius, Lithuania, having a background in literature, music, and performative arts; lately been drawn to artistic research and interdisciplinary collaborations. Augustas is a co-creator of the micro-empathy arts collective, a part of Kaunas 3022 collective and Neofuturistic Walks movement;. Augustass has participated in Architecture Fund’s Experiments Platform, EIT Climate-KIC Hub, Tech Arts Incubator, Kuriu Vilnių program, Venice Biennial and Ars Electronica Founding Lab.

𝐃𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐲𝐚 𝐅𝐞𝐫𝐝𝐨𝐮𝐬 is an artist and filmmaker from Queens, New York. They are pursuing their Masters in analog animation at the Estonian Academy of Arts. Their current work investigates fairytale, standpoint theory and the production of racialized subjectivity in anthropomorphic animated characters. As a Bangladeshi American person of diaspora, Ditiya is interested in exploring memory, belonging, and production of identity in urban and abandoned spaces.
The walkshop is held in english and begins from VARES’ house (Uus 35, Valga)