Dr. Lina Michelkevičė
lina.michelkevice[at]vda.lt
Art historian, translator
Research interests: participatory and collaborative art practices, social movements and activism, art education, intersections between art, science and education, diagrammatic representations, Baltic culture after the restoration of independence.
Born 1983, Vilnius. 2005 graduated from Vilnius University with BA in Lithuanian philology and Finnish; 2007 MA in semiotics (Vilnius University); 2014 PhD in art criticism for thesis “Participatory Practices in Lithuanian Contemporary Art: The Problem of Criteria for Analysis and Evaluation” (supervisor dr. Skaidra Trilupaitytė).
Since 2014 has worked as a researcher at the Institute of Art Research, Vilnius Academy of Arts. Contributes to interdisciplinary cultural, research and publishing projects. Member of the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association and the Lithuanian Society of Art Photography. Editorial Secretary of the peer-reviewed journal Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis.
RESEARCH PROJECTS
2024: Project leader, project “Publication of the monograph “Cultural workers and urbanist protest in Lithuania”. Financed by the Research Council of Lithuania (LMTLT), agreement No. S-LIP-24-20. Implementing institution: Vilnius Academy of Arts.
2020–2022: Post-doctoral researcher, project “The Role of Cultural Professionals in Social Movements in Independent Lithuania”, funded by the European Social Fund under the measure No. 09.3.3 LMT K 712 “Development of Competences of Scientists, other Researchers and Students through Practical Research Activities”. Implementing institution: Vilnius Academy of Arts.
2017–2019: Principal investigator, project “Mapping the Real and the Imaginary: Innovative Forms of Visualisation in Research, Arts, Cultural Communication, and Education”, funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture. Implementing institution: Vilnius Academy of Arts.
2014: Project leader, project “Children Art Schools: Cultural and Socio-political Participation in Society”, funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture. Implementing institution: Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association.
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books
Michelkevičė, Lina. Būti dalimi: dalyvavimas ir bendradarbiavimas Lietuvos šiuolaikiniame mene. Vilnius: Vilniaus dailės akademijos leidykla, 2021.
Michelkevičė, Lina, and Vytautas Michelkevičius, Eds. Atlas of Diagrammatic Imagination: Maps in Art, Research and Education. Vilnius: Vilnius Academy of Arts Press, 2019.
Michelkevičius, Vytautas, Agnė Narušytė, Lina Michelkevičė, Eds. Mapping Lithuanian Photography: Histories and Archives. Vilnius: MENE, 2007.
Articles in peer-reviewed journals
Michelkevičė, Lina and Vytautas Michelkevičius. “Towards a Definition of the Diagrammatic Map as a Means of (Artistic) Research”. Acoustic Space 19 (2022): 203–216.
Michelkevičė, Lina. “Clashes Over Soviet Legacy in Vilnius and the Making of Public Space”. CAP – Public Art Journal 3, No. 2 (2021): 60–83.
Michelkevičė, Lina. “Starting From School: Contemporary Art Projects Involving Educational Institutions”. Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, no. 84 (2017): 117–140.
Michelkevičė, Lina, and Vytautas Michelkevičius. “Unwritten Histories of Extinct Media Art in Lithuania: From the 2000s of Great Promise to the Multidirectional 2010s”. Acoustic Space 15 (2016): 70–83.
Michelkevičė, Lina. “Kalbiniai diskursai meniniame (patyrime) ir kalbančio menininko vaidmenys = Lingual Discourses in Artistic Research and the Roles of the Talking Artist”. Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, no. 79 (2015): 61–70.
Michelkevičė, Lina. “Dalyvavimo konfliktai: Dariaus Mikšio projektas „Už baltos užuolaidos" = Conflicts of Participation: Darius Mikšys Project Behind the White Curtain”. Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, no. 74 (2014): 143–156.
Michelkevičė, Lina. “Pro-testo laboratorija: bendradarbiavimo strategija kaip viešosios erdvės steigtis = Pro-test Lab: Constituting Public Space through Collaborative Strategy”. Logos, no. 74 (2013): 199–212.
Michelkevičė, Lina. “Dalyvavimo estetika: analitinių ir kritinių prieigų paieškos = Participatory Aesthetics: In Search of Analytical and Critical Approach”. Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, no. 52 (2009): 255–266.
Book chapters
Michelkevičė, Lina. „Fluxus, Artistic Action, Open Art and Other Keywords of Lithuanian Art Criticism in the Early 1990s“. In (In)dependent Contemporary Art Histories. Artist-run Initiatives in Lithuania 1980–2022 m., vol. 3, edited by Vytautas Michelkevičius, Kęstutis Šapoka and Karolina Rybačiauskaitė, 453–463. Vilnius: Mene & LTMKS, 2022.
Michelkevičė, Lina, and Vytautas Michelkevičius. “Artists Rewriting Art History through Artistic Research and Collecting in Lithuania: From Pavilion to Museum to Cemetery”. In Contemporary Ukrainian and Baltic Art Political and Social Perspectives, 1991–2021, edited by Svitlana Biedarieva, 137–163. Stuttgart: ibidem Press, 2021.
Michelkevičė, Lina. “In a Tangle(gram), or What’s so Appealing about Maps and Diagrams (in Art)?”. In Atlas of Diagrammatic Imagination: Maps in Research, Art and Education, edited by Lina Michelkevičė and Vytautas Michelkevičius, 65–95. Vilnius: Vilnius Academy of Arts Press, 2019.
Michelkevičė, Lina, “Comrades-in-Arms, Accomplices, Companions: Collaborative Trends in Lithuanian Contemporary Art”. In Art and Theory of Post-1989 Central and Eastern Europe: A Critical Anthology, edited by Ana Janevski, Roxana Marcoci, Xenia Nouril, 112–117. New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2018.
Michelkevičė, Lina, Vita Petrušauskaitė, and Kęstutis Šapoka, “Tyrimo „Kultūrinis ir sociopolitinis vaikų dailės mokyklų dalyvavimas visuomenėje: atvejų analizė“ pristatymas ir rezultatų aptarimas”. In Dada ir dailės edukacija, edited by Redas Diržys, 47–57. Alytus: Alytaus dailės mokykla ir Kitos knygos, 2015.
Michelkevičė, Lina. “Companions in the City: Identification, Trolleybus No. 0, Flash Bar, TylĖjimai”. In (In)dependent Contemporary Art Histories. Artist-run Initiatives in Lithuania 1987–2014, vol. 2, edited by Vytautas Michelkevičius and Kęstutis Šapoka, 452–461. Vilnius: LTMKS, 2014.
Michelkevičė, Lina. “Semiotika”. In Dailėtyra: teorijos, metodai, praktikos, edited by Giedrė Mickūnaitė, 317–335. Vilnius: Vilniaus dailės akademijos leidykla, 2012.
Michelkevičė, Lina, and Giedrė Mickūnaitė. “Struktūralizmas, poststruktūralizmas, dekonstrukcija”. In Dailėtyra: teorijos, metodai, praktikos, edited by Giedrė Mickūnaitė, 337–366. Vilnius: Vilniaus dailės akademijos leidykla, 2012.
Lina Michelkevičė. “Comrades-in-arms, Accomplices, Companions: Collaborative trends in Lithuanian Contemporary Art”. In Lithuanian Art 2000–2010: Ten Years, edited by Linara Dovydaitytė, Renata Dubinskaitė and Asta Vaičiulytė, 150–157. Vilnius: Contemporary Art Centre, 2010.
Lina Michelkevičė. “Įvadas į hipertekstą: samprata ir struktūra”. In Medijų kultūros balsai: teorijos ir praktikos, edited by Vytautas Michelkevičius, 71–88. Vilnius: MENE, 2009.
Edited volumes
Michelkevičė, Lina, Laura Petrauskaitė ir Aušra Trakšelytė, sud. „Kaip pasakoti apie meną? Dailės istorija, kritika, tekstai ir pasakojimai Lietuvoje / How to Tell About Art? Art History, Criticism, Texts and Narratives in Lithuania“, Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, nr. 107 (2022).
Michelkevičė, Lina, and Tojana Račiūnaitė, Eds. “Jubiliejų kultūra / Anniversary Culture”, Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, no. 100 (2021).
Michelkevičė, Lina, and Aušra Trakšelytė, Eds. “Menas valstybėje - valstybė mene / Arts in the State - The State in Arts”, Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, no. 94 (2019).
Michelkevičė, Lina, Ed. “Edukacija mene, menui, per meną / Education In, For and Through Art”, Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, no. 84 (2017).
Žemaitytė, Gintautė, Aušra Trakšelytė, and Lina Michelkevičė, Eds. “Kūnas: ne laiku ir be vietos / The Body: Out of Time and Without a Place”, Acta Academiae Artium Vilnensis, no. 80/81 (2016).
Research Report
Michelkevičė, Lina, Vita Petrušauskaitė ir Kęstutis Šapoka. Vaikų dailės mokyklų kultūrinis ir sociopolitinis dalyvavimas visuomenėje: atvejų analizė. Lietuvos tarpdisciplininio meno kūrėjų sąjunga, 2014, https://www.kulturostyrimai.lt/metai/2014/vaiku-dailes-mokyklu-kulturinis-ir-sociopolitinis-dalyvavimas-visuomeneje/.
PAPERS IN CONFERENCES AND SYMPOSIA
Fluxist Democracy? Reclaiming Fluxus in Early Independent Lithuanian Art // Cultural Heterologies and Democracy II. Transitions and Transformations in Post-Socialist Cultures in the 1980s and 1990s (June 26–28, 2024, Estonian Academy of Arts)
Griauti, išsaugoti, perkurti? Kultūros kūrėjų balsai ginčuose dėl nepatogaus paveldo// Kultūros paveldo ir bendruomenių sąveika (June 7, 2024, Faculty of History, Vilnius University)
Bendražygiai, bendrininkai, bendrautojai: žvilgsnis į du bendradarbiavimo dešimtmečius Lietuvos šiuolaikiniame mene (keynote together with Vytautu Michelkevičiumi) // Menininkų bendrystė ir bendradarbiavimas meninėse praktikose: Vilniaus ir pasaulio kontekstai (May 3–4, 2023, Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre)
Art in Public Space and Conflict: ‘Legitimate’ and ‘Illegitimate’ Contestations // Art and the City: Urban Space, Art and Social Change (June 23–25, 2022, Aarhus University, online)
Clashes Over Soviet Legacy in Vilnius: Cultural Activism as a Way to Establish Public Space // Art and the City: Urban Space, Art and Social Change (April 28–30, 2021, Aarhus University, online)
Atlas of Diagrammatic Imagination: How Can Maps Transfer Knowledge in Artistic Research (keynote together with Vytautas Michelkevičius) // The Annual Conference of EKA Doctoral School 2021 (April 15, 2021, Estonian Academy of Arts, online)
Postdigital Ecologies of Representation in the Atlas of Diagrammatic Imagination (together with Vytautas Michelkevičius) // Open Fields 2020: ECODATA Conference, (October 8–10, 2020, RIXC Center for New Media Culture, online)
Back to School: Contemporary Art Embraces Pedagogy // 8th Conference on Modern Art in Torun: Art Education & Art Criticism in Central and Eastern Europe in the 20th and 21st Centuries (October 10–11, 2019, Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun)
Vaikų meno mokyklos kaip kultūros terpė // Meno edukacija: patirtys ir iššūkiai (March 15, 2018, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius)
Other Virtuality: Tracing the Real in Maps and Diagrams within Artistic Research (together with Vytautas Michelkevičius) // The 2nd Open Fields Conference: Virtualities and Realities (October 19–21, 2017, Art Academy of Latvia and Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga)
Art Events into Tales: How to Historicise the Ephemeral? // 3rd Conference of Baltic Art Historians. Representing Art History in the Baltic Countries: Experiences and Prospects (October 6–8, 2016, Art Academy of Latvia and Latvian National Museum of Art, Riga)
Vaikų dailės mokyklų kultūrinis ir sociopolitinis dalyvavimas visuomenėje: atvejų analizė (together with Vita Petrušauskaitė & Kęstutis Šapoka) // Dailės edukacija ir DADA (October 8–9, 2015, Alytus Ethnographic Museum)
People into (Art)Work: Shaping the Spectatorship in Lithuanian Contemporary Art // Revisiting Footnotes: symposium (May 23–24, 2013, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga)
Art Event: Involvement as the Engine of Contemporary Art Institution // Forms of Engagement, Concepts of Politics, European Doctoral Seminar in Culture, Criticism, and Creativity (June 11–13, 2009, University of Copenhagen)
Žemėlapiavimas kaip vizualinis metodas (together with Vytautas Michelkevičius) // Akademinių studijų savaitė Baltos lankos (June 2008, Druskininkai)
Dalyvavimo estetika: naujų analitinių ir kritinių prieigų menotyroje paieškos // Meno kūrinys: paviršius, figūra, reikšmė (May 15–16, 2008, Vilnius Academy of Arts)
Tekstinė mašina kaip meninės komunikacijos modelis / Medijų meno festivalis Enter 5: Inter/aktyvumas medijų mene (April 26, 2005, Šiauliai Art Gallery)
