Kintai Arts art space is an artistic initiative in a rural location which provides a forum for all artistic branches and interdisciplinary work, encouraging encounters with contemporary art forms outside of urban cultural centers. Interaction and intervention between art and the local community and environment where it is practiced as a significant aspect of the project. This is an independent non-profit project. The name Kintai Arts is derived from the town name Kintai where the residency was established. The residency program started in 2016.

Kintai Arts residency offers two types of residency programs:

1. Residency programmes for individual projects, inviting all type of creative field practitioners, curators, writers and researchers to live in the residency while focusing on their individual projects, research and artistic contemplation. Residencies take 2 weeks up to 3 months for individual projects residencies.

2. Curated residencies, inviting all type of creative field practitioners, curators, writers and researchers to participate in thematic residency, mentored by local and international professionals of various artistic fields. The topics evolving around curated residencies include ecology, science, reflexion on relevant sociopolitical topics, overall focusing on interdisciplinary collaborations between different contemporary art fields. The open calls are launched 2 times per year. The curated residencies take 1 month.

Open Call : Sonic Awareness

Kintai Arts & Music Information Center Lithuania (Lithuania) in collaboration with ASTE (Latvia) and MoKS (Estonia) announce an open call for sound artists from the Baltic states or based in the Baltics to apply for a 2-weeks residency in Kintai, Lithuania, taking place on 11 - 27 August, 2025. The sound art focused residency program takes place in Kintai, a small town located on the shore of the Curonian Lagoon in western Lithuania. It focuses on site-specific sonic research and invites three artists to create works that relate to and reflect on this unique location.

In her seminal text “On Sonic Meditation” American composer Pauline Oliveiros describes sonic awareness, a theory based on two modes of human information processing – attention and awareness. Awareness is global, non-linear, it registers sensory, imagined and remembered information, while attention is focal, occupied with singular or sequential and linear material. “Awareness can be expanded until it seems all-inclusive. Attention can intensify awareness. Awareness can support attention. There is attention to awareness; there is awareness of attention”. Intrinsically introspective, sound builds awareness and reveals the invisible.

Kintai.Kitaip art residency program invites sound practitioners to openly explore and interpret the ways of activating sonic awareness within a distinctive environment. It encourages participants to engage with its unique acoustic ecology, intertwining it with their personal artistic approach to sound-making. The resulting sound pieces will be presented at two public end-of-residency events in Kintai and Vilnius. In autumn 2025 artists will be invited to perform the pieces in Latvia and Estonia. Additionally, the works will be digitally released on the Music Information Centre Lithuania label.