LT ranch space: Landscape and the Involuntary*

context & location

the LT Ranch is a non-profit rural art space in northeast Lithuania hosting seasonal residency sessions for students & interdisciplinary, intergenerational practitioners, providing a facility for spatial research, experimentation in making things and performative events related to environment and experience through art, architecture, film in this landscape +.

mappings

a bit about the place...

ISSUU printed works

INSTagram: @lt_ranch_space

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VšI LT Ranch

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Supporting projects

Repair and maintenance

the ongoing repairs and maintenance has become our main concern for the value of the Ranch environment to remain habitable, safe and standing. We continue these processes year on year.

10 year anniversary publication

We are preparing a publication for our 10 year anniversary. Temporary and slow as we have been as a space for cultural exchange and spatial experimentation and being, we would like to mark this occasion with a collection of durational public moments, texts, photographs, concrete poetry etc.

We have now received a generous collection of writings from participants: spatial offerings, family photos, messages & gestures from around the world.

A heartfelt thank you.

If anyone is able to support this publication please click the PayPal link below. Any trouble please email me directly at kkotov@uca.ac.uk.

Publication date: Spring 2020 (we did not make this date as you may notice). We are though exhibiting a wee exhibition with kind and generous support from Tauragnas Regional Museum as our first public moment of works from these years.

the Roof House Project

intro to Stoginė a.k.a The Roof House 2016

Is a slow moving project done with great care and variable duration of time. We have now completed the roof for this building (2023- with thanks to Antanas and Airidas) only to have the second ice storm in 4 years break through the clear roofing in spring 2024. thank you to everyone who helped support the repairs this year.

2016_ bay no. 1

2017_ bay no. 2

2018_ bay no 3

2019_interior spaces & thresholds : Rothko sliding doors

last 2 bays completed 2022, the roof cover in 2023- and now again in 2024.

2019 Team: 4 years, 3 weeks: Faezeh Fathi, Richard Ford, Dan van Orsouw, Kristina Kotov, Niall Healy & Olive Moynihan

2018 Team: Declan Ralph, Faezeh Fathi, Richard Ford + Summer Session 18 participants and our craftsman.

2017 Team: Faezeh Fathi, Richard Ford, Nathan Back- Chamness + our Anonymous Lithuanian Craftsman & Summer Session Participants 2017

2016 Team: Declan Ralph, Faezeh Fathi, Richard Ford, the Anonymous Lithuanian Craftsman & the Summer Session Participants 2016

co-conspirators

X Summer Session 2020 (online)

charissa turner, dan van orsouw, declan ralph, diya seepaul, faezeh fathi, jacob hedge miksa albert, monica san pablo santiago, nattanit eksangul, niall healy, nicola tsioupra stan chick, zvonimir antic, vilius jokubaitis, chayada dissataporn, richard ford, jeffrey adjei, maegan icke, rachel jones, nasios varnavas, colin priest, ken wilder, gabor stark stasys skliaustis, kristina kotov matt shaw, will trossel brone skliaustiene, antanas skliaustis
X Summer Session 2019
chayada dissataporn, dan van orsouw, declan ralph, ethan burley, faezeh fathi, jacob hedge, kejin (cojoy) liu, miksa albert, nattanit eksangul, richard ford, shuhui (cris) yin, vilius jokubaitis
w: athanasios varnavas, jeffrey adjei, kristina kotov, niall healy*, olive moynihan*, stasys skliaustis & family

Summer Session 2018
ben carpenter, dan van orsouw, dimple manmovanlal, declan ralph, elliot waters, ethan burley, faezeh fathi, jacob hedge, miksa albert, richard ford
w: athanasios varnavas, jeffrey adjei, kristina kotov, niall healy, stasys skliaustis & family

Summer Session 2017
adrienne bennie, athina leontiou, charlotte crocker, clinton olajide jr, emily louise legg, faezeh fahti, luna ozbek, nathan back-chamness, piera dencker-rasmussen, richard ford, zigiant el-sarkaoui
w: jeffrey adjei, ken wilder, lucy jones, kristina kotov, stasys skliaustis & family

Summer Session 2016
daniel stilwell, declan ralph, elif ergisi, faezeh fathi, gemma maria la rocca, owain caruana-davies, richard ford, sarah stollery, yingying frannie yuan, yuan zoey zhao
w: jeffrey adjei, ken wilder, lucy jones, kristina kotov, stasys & antanas skliaustis

Summer Session 2015
declan ralph, emiliano zavala, faezeh fahti, helen brewer, liu wang, lu peng, nathan back-chamness, richard ford, (tony) tianyue wang, wei wu, yvonne onah
w: alison lloyd, annemarie piscaer, jeffrey adjei, jiri hanzlik, kristina kotov, stasys skliaustis, tina tran

Barn 2 B
j adjei, j hanzlik, a kutbi (UCA-CSA) a stefani (Bauhaus Weimar), annemarie piscaer (TAKT), s skliaustis, andrius, giedrius, antanas +5, k kotov

Summer Session 2014
bingyu hu, bo liu, (bonnie) xufang zhou, (crystal) lijiao wen, lin wu, (monica) yuan fang, nan yao, shandri van rooyen, sue ahmed, yun na liu, yvonne onah
w: jeffrey adjei, jiri hanzlik, ken wilder, kristina kotov, stasys skliaustis

Summer Session 2013
abdulbari kutbi, chia-chen hu, jialing ling, mengjie liu, mirella dourampei, sang jeong, wan yun tsai, xin wan, ya gao, yang bai
w: janice shales, jiri hanzlik, stasys skliaustis

guests: edvinas klimas + ieva

november 2012
Barn 2-B: ScanLab Ltd
matthew shaw
william trossell
thomas parker
samantha lee

Summer Session 2012
chris humphrey, enzo guida, keun hye lee, john wo min kang, mamo juelin he, marcus boyle, max thomson, mo ja, neda kahooker, patrick yi-wei chen, paresh parmar, recy shao feng, sam LO ming shum
w: emma hunter, kristina kotov, stasys skliaustis

pre-summer session
eimantas sakalauskas
gunter mirbach

april
BOLLYWOOD TUNNEL
janice shales
kdk

2011
sept
TOPOGRAPHIC STUDY
andrew dabomprez

Summer Session 2011
ami kanki, changda wu, dayea kim, georgina walker, hyunsuk park, lewis barton, sofia anastasiou, spyros anastasiou, yeun yebing (sylvia)
w: rob nice, kkotov, stasys & family

april
georg bohm
niall healy
olive moynihan
ray vysniauskas

2010
niall healy
kdk
elisha tagg
alex anderson

2009
Winter film sequence by Ray V
Summer FILM: TAKT: dis-mantling barn 2
tom gallant
annamarie piscaer
kdk
thijs ewalts

Summer Session 2009
anna parfirenko, yi chuan liu, yu-ting wang
w: ken wilder, kkotov

2008
Barn 1: the smiling barn
niall healy
olive moynihan
stasys & antanas
povilas, justas, andrius

2006
joris pauwels
liuda bartkus & family
marit muenzberg
saif osmani
stasys & family
povilas, justas, andrius

2005
eugenijus bruzgys & family
sabina kotov

2005-
niall healy
colin priest
gabor stark
rimas
stanislovas skliaustis & family

did they really say that?...

We are all back to civilization, missing the lovely week at our village though!! :) Thank you for everything. It was amazing.
Neda (2012 UAL MA ISD)

Thanks for the awesome trip! UCA was amazing! Made a lot of memories and the experience was priceless!
Hope to visit you all again sometime in the near future.
John (Erasmus UCA-CSA Sydney 2012)

I just wanted to say thank you. Summer School was so interesting, it was a really good opportunity for me. I’m still seeing the pictures of workshop. I already miss the barn, kitchen, shower (definitely outside one!..I regret why I used it just once.) and sofia, spyros, lewis…all of them!!

Although I was bitten by too many mosquitoes and fell down the drain, it might be an unforgettable memory…and I washed my pants twice! I think it’s enough..:) Also, you always tried to take care of us.! Probably as you know, in my country, teachers don’t do any hard work for student. So, I felt bad whenever I saw you tanned back…:( Thanks a lot!!
Hyunsuk (2011 UAL MA ISD)

'I think this is going to be very popular, can we come again next year, or should we let other people come?'

Sofia (2011 UCA-CSA)

'As a director of my own architectural practice my visits to the Ranch re-inject the soul and reminds me why I do what I do'

Niall (2011 over-roofing barn_1, lining the sauna 09, stairs & surfaces 10, floating the room Barn_1)

annemarie TAKT 2009

'This is *&^$-ing torture!!!!'

Niall (2008_100cm from the ridge, ontop of Barn_1 in the rain)