Small Realities, this year as the 3rd International Media Refuge, is a joint event of Caspar-David-Friedrich Institute of the University of Greifswald, Academy of Media Arts, Cologne, Turku University of Applied Sciences, Vilnius Gediminas Technical University and Vilnius Art Academy. The previous events commenced at Naples and Cologne.

Small Realities attemps to juxtapose the factual and remembered. Focusing on perception and various factors that interfere with the objectivity of experience of seeing, hearing, smelling… Those interfering factors ought to be examined by the students during the workshop, aiming at modification and reassembly of certain impressions to form a new way of perception of reality, going beyond spectacular rupture between fake and factual and deeper into the realm of perception, participation, and agency.

The practical idea of this residency was to observe, perceive and record Nida’s surroundings using a variety of media, from traditional ones such as text, drawing, gesture/movement, photography, video and sound recording to new forms such as 3D scanning / photogrammetry. Students worked in mixed teams and engaged in a mixture of outdoor and indoor activities, interspersed with periodic critical brainstorming sessions around the campfire. The project focused on fostering collective thinking linked to the development of a symbiotic relationship between perception, creative synthesis and projection back onto a living screen, nature itself.

Research projects, Nida, 2024

Christopher Theophanous

The memory of a sound.
The landscape listens.
Sound exists only when it is going out of existence.
To listen, to entrain.
Remember the sound of a rainy forest.
Think about wood, think about metal.
Listen to an object you think is still. Listen until you can hear it move.

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Jeongan Choi

ideas to bring home (not sand): skeptical branches, belly button stone, butterfly tree, red spider
alley and cigarettes, mushrooms, draw like dune, sundial and sunset, cold shower and cold swim,
teeth brushing meet up at midnight

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Duhyoung Kim

Maintaining Table, ongoing experiments as a form of workshop.

We improvise our own noises, voices, recordings or silence for specific time and then discuss about what we listened to, meetings of sounds and so on. This repeats several times with getting out and improvising with nature sounds. In that we try to think about “tables” as a place where we meet, as a stage of our music and as common we share, including surroundings.

Worms in woodplanks, filtered

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Amelie Vierbuchen

Jeongeun Kang