New Materialism: Networking European Scholarship on ‘How Matter Comes to Matterʼ

The project aimed to reconsider the concept of ‘Matter’ that signifies the subject matter of research and, more broadly, the material fragments/forces of reality. This project was framed by the following broad research questions:  How to create spaces in which the specific rules of different academic and non-academic practices of knowledge production can be made visible and thus negotiable?  How to generate epistemologies that are equipped to do justice to the crises European (and non-European) societies face in the 21st century? How should practices be institutionalised in European universities and among academics, policy makers and other stakeholders in Europe? With the changing of societies, a reorganized academic landscape can be observed to be emerging. The fundamental new materialist research was being done, and the resulting methodological restructurings were made.

Main results:

• Gaižutytė-Filipavičienė, Žilvinė. 2015. Materialisation of Memories: Exploring Soviet Deportations and Post-war Resistance in Lithuanian Media Arts. COST IS 1307 meeting Creative Arts and Material Memories: Serbia/Ex-Yugoslavia between Trauma and Nostalgia. Belgrade: University of Arts, Faculty of Dramatic Arts, Institute for Theatre, Film, Radio and Television, 2015/06/ 23-25 d.
  https://newmaterialism.eu/working-groups/working-group-3/about.html
• Gaižutytė-Filipavičienė, Žilvinė. 2015. Visibility as a Capital in Mediated Culture: The Case of Lithuanian Actor and TV-Host Vytautas Šapranauskas. The Annual New Materialism Conference New Materialist Politics and Economies of Knowledge. Maribor: University of Maribor, Faculty of Law, 2015/10/2-4 d. COST Action IS1307.
  https://newmaterialism.eu/activities/6th-annual-conference.html
• Gaižutytė-Filipavičienė, Žilvinė, 2016. Embodied Memory of Historical Traumas. The Annual New Materialism Conference Performing Situated Knowledges: Space, Time, Vulnerability. Warsaw: Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences. COST Action IS1307. 2016 09 21-23.
  https://newmaterialism2016.wixsite.com/conference
• Gaižutytė-Filipavičienė, Žilvinė. 2020. From Visuality to Visibility: Regime, Capital, Media. Meno istorija ir kritika [Art History and Criticism], ed.by. R. Žukienė, Kaunas: VDU, 2020 Vol. 16, Issue (1), p. 125–131.On line ISSN 1822-4547
  https://content.sciendo.com/configurable/contentpage/journals$002fmik$002fmik-overview.xml?tab_body=latestIssueToc-79128
• Nikiforova, Basia. 2015. Philosophy of Matter Manipulation in Brothers Quay’ Metaphorical Animation World, Creativity Studies 8 (1): 3–11, ISSN 2345-0479 (print), 2345-0487 (online).
  https://journals.vilniustech.lt/index.php/CS/article/view/2877
• Nikiforova, Basia, 2016. European Borders and Identity from the New Materialist Approach, Pogranicze. Studija spoleczne XXVII (1): 151–162. Białystok: Wydawnictwo Uniwersitetu w Białymstoku, ISSN 1230-2392.
  https://repozytorium.uwb.edu.pl/jspui/bitstream/11320/4717/1/Pogranicze_27_cz-1_B.Nikiforova_European_borders_and_identity_from_the_new_materialist_approach.pdf
• Nikiforova, Basia, 2017. European Borders: New Materialist Approach and Beyond, Sovijus. Tarpdalykiniai kultūros tyrimai 5 (2): 69–80, ISSN 2351-471X (print), ISSN 2351-4728 (online).
  http://www.sovijus.lt/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2017/12/80-p.-Nikiforova-Santrauka-Sovijus-T.-5-Nr.-2.pdf
• Nikiforova, Basia. 2018. European Posthuman Border Image: performativity, creativity and beyond. Creativity Studies 11 (2): 348–361, ISSN 2345-0479 / eISSN 2345-0487.
  https://journals.vilniustech.lt/index.php/CS/article/view/6296
• Nikiforova, Basia, “Body Transformations in Lithuanian Visual Art: reconceptualization of materiality”. COST seminar The New Materialism in Visual Arts. Barcelona University (Spain), 2014 09-24.
• Nikiforova, Basia, “Deconstruction of Regional Identity in the New Materialism Discourse”. International conference Transcultural processes on the borderlands with a special emphasis on Central and Eastern Europe, Bialystok (Poland), Bialystok University, Sociology Institute, 2015 10 17–18.
• Nikiforova, Basia; Šapoka, Kęstutis, “The Body Reconceptualization as a Challenge for New Materialism: The Cases of S & P Stanikas and Evaldas Jansas”, International COST conference New Materialist Politics and Economies of Knowledge, Maribor (Slovenia), University of Maribor, 2015 11 02–04.
• Nikiforova, Basia, “The Reconceptualization of Materiality in the Brother Quay’ lost civilization world”. International conference: Visuality: Intercultural Creative Discourse, Vilnius, VGTU, 2015 04 23–24.