Keywords of Jelena Škulis artistic practice: materiality, textile, textuality, communities, processualism, slowness.
Jelena Škulis is an artist and researcher whose work is based on the material and the relationship with the community. A graduate in social sciences from Vilnius University and visual arts from Vilnius Academy of Arts, she uses a variety of methods in her work: slow weaving, handwork, everyday language, performative action, surveys, and involving the community in the creative process.
Jelena’s works and community projects have been presented in Italy, Portugal, France, Latvia, Ukraine, the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and other countries. Two of her projects involving local communities, Add.Dicted and BoringArt, received a grant from the Lithuanian Council for Culture. Škulis is also a Ph.D. student at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. She uses an autoethnographic approach to explore the connections and disconnections between material creation and community.