Aukščiūnas Deividas Vytautas
Deividas Vytautas Aukščiūnas (b. 1996, Chicago, USA) currently lives and works between Berlin and Vilnius. He has participated in the 2024 Artists’ Film International program, was nominated for the 2023 CIRCA Prize, and won the JCDecaux Prize in 2021.
V. Aukščiūnas’ artistic practice, which encompasses the media of installation, sculpture, film, and performance, is based on the methodological opposition of the latter two. The former is dominated by a directorial point of view, a tendency to have full control of the material throughout the process. In the case of performance, the original creative vision has to come to terms with the dynamism of the space, embrace the inherent vulnerability that comes with it. This tension results in queer temporality, an alternative rhythm of being, characterized by cycles, interruptions, and pauses; or returns to the same creative motifs, endless recontextualizations of the details that constitute them.
In the case of D. V. Aukščiūnas, the main recurring elements revolve around physical intimacy, the search for transgressive sensations that liberate the body’s potential for self-expression, allowing it to become whatever and whenever she (he) wants to be. The interplay between directorial control and the openness of the act becomes the creative material that shapes shifting identities, relationships, and perceptions of time.
Lūžti, mixed media installation, dimensions variable, 2024
mixed media installation, dimensions variable, 2024
chernozem, aquarium, polyethylene, distilled water, lights
Meno Niša, Vilnius, LT
Core, performance, 41:41, 2024
3 performers, sound, choreography, water, iPhones
in collaboration with Gloria Viktoria Regotz and Jette Loona Hermanis
Presented at: Atletika, Vilnius, LT
Public Transport Project: Renens 2024
performance, 60:00, 2024
in collaboration with Gloria Viktoria Regotz and Philip Ortelli
Presented at: Les Urbaines, Renens, CH
Public Transport Project: Warsaw 2024
performance, 60:00
8 performers, sound, choreography, opera singer, BMW car, suitcases, food, phones
in collaboration with Gloria Viktoria Regotz and Philip Ortelli
Presented at: Crash Club, Warsaw, PL
Public Transport Project: Radio Warsaw 2024
radio show/taxi drive, 01:32:00
BMW cars, driver
in collaboration with Gloria Viktoria Regotz and Philip Ortelli
Presented at: Crash Club, Warsaw, PL
Performance
performance, 01:30:00, 2024
2 performers, iPhones, tripods, livestream, Audi car, McDonald’s meal, chalk, water, apples, car seats, TV screen
in collaboration with Gloria Viktoria Regotz
Presented at: Kunstpunkt Berlin, DE
CHYC (Collective Healing Youth Club)
mixed media installation, dimensions variable, 2023
aluminium, water bottles, stage blood, safety helmet, steel chain, boxing bag mount, meat hook, glass, acrylic paint, chernozem, lights, CCTV camera
Meno Parkas, Kaunas, Lithuania
sub
framed Inkjet print on Hahnemühle, 100 x 60 cm, 2023
Exhibition: Soft When Warm, Guts Gallery, London, UK
filled up, torn open
digital video with sound and 3D animations, 8:56, 2022