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2022-12-30
“Bad dream” BY Inga Galinytė, WINNER OF LIAA 2022 PRIZE
To mark the end of the year 2022, the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association (LIAA) presents a new artwork, created by annual LIAA Prize winner. The presented work is Inga Galinytė’s piece ‘Bad Dream’.
The performative installation Bad Dream reflects on the events of today’s brutal war in Ukraine and rethinks the traces of collective and personal traumatic experiences as well as the possible new mediums of co-existence. It is an ongoing, lingering, chronic process trying to transform into a slow, conscious, accepting presence in the present.
“The body rotates in microscopic movements, phrases are embroidered with white thread on white women’s overalls, strawberry seeds are removed one by one with the tip of a needle – allergens to life and to the feeling of abandonment. Nearby, dried apple seeds are being pressed with finger pads and a tower is being built out of la vie en rose. And other actions, there, nearby, are enveloped by a sound articulated as if under water. It lasts for hours, like an eternity.”
Inga Galinytė has been exploring the links between traumatic experiences, empathy and imagination in her creative practice for some time now, and has been searching for performative forms to talk about them. The performative installation “Bad Dream” will be presented during the OPEN SODAS event on 3 March. The first version of the installation was presented during the MAS week of artistic actions in Vilnius, organised by the independent contemporary dance organisation “Be Kompanijos”. The second version of the installation was presented at the Baltic Art Festival Volume Up, New York, organised by Estonian performance group Non Grata.
The soundtrack of the installation was sketched in collaboration with artist and composer Anna Papathanassiou.
“Bad Dream” will premiere in 2023 March 3 during OPEN SODAS event. The exact time to be revised.
In 2022, for the third year in a row, LIAA organised a competition for the production of new work for LIAA members, the winner of which this year was Inga Galinytė. The LIAA Prize is an important contribution to members’ creative practices, helping them to realise their ongoing projects, exhibitions, works in progress, or encouraging the initiative of new works and exhibitions. The winners of the LIAA Prize were selected by the Council of the association.
Organised by the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association.
Activities of LIAA are financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius City Municipality.
Information partner – 15min.
2022-12-27
LIAA presents two new publications by Laura Garbštienė and Milda Laužikaitė from the series “One Idea“
Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association (LIAA) ends the year with an introduction of two new publications from the series of small-format publications “One idea”. This time these are collections of images and texts by two contemporary artists – Laura Garbštienė and Milda Laužikaitė. The presentation of the publications will take place on 26 January 2023 at the cultural complex SODAS 2123, during the OPEN SODAS event.
2022-12-15
New LIAA members
We are happy to see that every year the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association grows! Arnis Aleinikovas, Birutė Lemke, Donata Minderytė, Dovilė Bagdonaitė, Gintautas Gascevičius, Julija Pociūtė, Žygimantas Augustinas, Austėja Masliukaitė, Ieva Gražytė, Barbora Matonytė – Kesminienė, Deinora Rudėnaitė, and Liudvikas Kesminas have joined us this year.
2022-12-15
Workshop with artist Ieva Maslinskaitė: Microbial Selves
On Tuesday, the 20th December at 19.30 Ieva Maslinskaitė will host a workshop on microbial self-understanding Microbial Selves in the Alt Lab non-disciplinary research laboratory (Vitebsko g. 23, 3rd floor, Vilnius), cultural complex SODAS 2123.
2022-12-14
The Second Event in the ‘Bodymerge’ Performative Lecture Series Introduces the Kris Lemsalu and Kyp Malone Duo
At 7pm on 20 December, the second event in the ‘Bodymerge’ performative lecture series will take place at SODAS 2123 (Vitebsko St 23, Vilnius), where the presentation of the Estonian artist Kris Lemsalu and the American artist and music creator Kyp Malone will attempt to test the boundaries of a lecture format once again.
2022-11-28
Institutio Media together with Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association and Ideas Block presents an exhibition “HUMANS, NON HUMANS, WITH AND WITHOUT HUMANS”
“We must begin really to listen to the rest of life. As just one melody in the living opera we are repetitious and persistent. We may think ourselves creative and original but in those talents we are not alone. Admit it or not, we are only a single theme of the orchestrated life-form. With its glorious nonhuman past and its uncertain but provocative future, this life, our life, is embedded now as it always has been, in the rest of Earth’s sentient symphony.”
Lynn Margulis
2022-11-23
The performative presentation of the book “(In)dependent Contemporary Art Histories. Artist-run Initiatives in Lithuania 1980–2022” (3rd volume).
The Pavilion’s Book Weekend on 3 December will host the launch of the third volume of the publication on Lithuanian contemporary art, which is becoming a history in its own right as it has been in the making for the past decade. Richly illustrated 624-page publication “(In)dependent contemporary art histories. Artist-run initiatives in Lithuania 1980–2022” allows to travel back in time from the 1980s to the present day and experience how Lithuanian artists have lived, worked and organised a wide range of activities. It is practically the only history of Lithuanian contemporary art published to date. During the presentation visitors will have the opportunity to get a closer look at the processes of collecting and writing the stories. The book is published by MENE in cooperation with the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists‘ Association (LIAA).
2022-11-22
Sodas winter market
On December 10-11, the corridors and halls of SODAS 2123 will be flooded with arts, crafts, vinyl records, books, sweets, holiday cookies and other indescribable things that can only be experienced in person! That is why we are waiting for you on Saturday (1pm – 8pm) and Sunday (12pm – 6pm) at the cultural complex SODAS 2123 (23 Vitebsko st.) at Sodas winter market🧤
2022-11-21
OPEN SODAS
The artists are not afraid of the winter winds, so they open the studios again at the OPEN SODAS event!
OPEN SODAS is an event open to conversations, exchange of ideas, insights and creative energy. On November 25, in the cultural complex SODAS 2123, artists and organizations invite you to participate in a program full of presentations of works, discussions and exhibition tours, and in the evening a unique opportunity awaits you to experience the biggest and most important Rakija Klezmer Orkestar “A Chasene!” concert this year.
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