LANDING is an international platform that facilitates critical and creative artistic inquiry. Emerging from Vilnius in the Baltic region, we embrace the fringes and the outposts, while focusing on the edges where artistic and research practices meet. We acknowledge how access to both sea and forest, as well as caves and mountains, impact our research. Rivers and extending horizons, both historical and future-bound, mark us as those dwelling on the edge of the last glacier. Limited by our own seeing, but capable of relating to other realities; perpetually in the process of LANDING.
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Call for contributions to the second issue "Twenty Second Reverb" is out until March 26th, 2025
How to land[ing]?
Landing proposes a collective shaping of research through art, where cultivating a vibrant ecosystem is enacted in a non-competitive ambiance that celebrates diverse disciplinary thought and expression. Landing is a grounding move in an atmosphere of floating, one which refuses claims for art’s exceptionalism. In lieu of a narrative of originality, our first publication seeks connections across the fibre of doing research. We are looking for descriptions of methods that can “generatively” serve the inquiry of another researcher. Rather than echoing the trending terms of the day we choose to stay with close-reading practices that have gone before and that are going on around us. Nothing is done alone or for the first time.
Landing attempts to find an adjusted model for the peer reviewed journal, one which is better suited to the demands of research in the arts. By combining peer review with alternative forms of research communication, we enable the singularity of individual enquiry and embrace diverse forms. The form of ‘Landing’ thus develops from the traditional journal yet seeks to be open and transmutable. Each iterative edition will build on the learning of the previous one, including the evolving interests of the candidates of our doctoral department.
This journal has been enabled by the generosity of our many allies and supporters at the Vilnius Academy of Arts and beyond. The editorial collective would like to thank our editorial and advisory board members: Astrida, Ash, Nina, Rūta, Bryndís, Mark, Mantas, Bjarki, Kieron, Ruth, Leo, Vytautas, Julija, and Marq.
We extend special thanks to:
Jason Bowman, Mick Wilson, Fadwa Bouziane, Minou Norouzi, Bjarki Bragason, Kieron Broadhurst, Rūta Spelskytė, Jelena Škulis, Marqard Smith, Julija Formina, Alfreda Pilitauskaitė, Aušra Trakšelyté, Vytautas Michelkevičius, and Marius Iršėnas for encouraging and assisting the refinement of our complex and delicate path towards Landing. Your openness towards the journal is greatly appreciated.
Finally we would like to extend our gratitude to all those who supported ‘Edge of the Glacier’ through agreeing to participate in our community of peer reviewers. Most of the contributors have also agreed to peer review a colleague.
