ENCOUNTER

2015-11-28

Installation of Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association project space “Malonioji 6” on the 30th, 1st and 2nd of December at 2:30-5 p.m.
Opening of the show and winter party on 5th of December at 5 p.m.

ENCOUNTER challenges the routine perception that there is a boundary between an artist studio, an exhibition space, and education. This project is an enquiry into ways of interaction and participation. ENCOUNTER joins modes of practices, connecting workshops with the exhibition space. Working together with children at The National Gallery,of Art we look into the subject matter of landscape and memory, being inspired by Algimantas Kunčius photographs. All created objects from the workshops form the starting point for a group show, which will be assembled in the course of the week. Thus, Malonioji 6 transforms into a live environment, where objects and ideas interact, collide and develop.

Der Mensch spielt nur, wo er in voller Bedeutung des Wortes Mensch ist, und er ist nur da ganz Mensch, wo er spielt. – meaning: A human only plays where he is a human being within the entire meaning of the word, and he is only completely human when he plays.

Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), Über die ästhetische Erziehung des Menschen – On the aesthetic education of human beings

Neoliberal thinking has had its influences on education, culture, and art institutions where growth, ranking systems, exclusivity and investment function tend to function as criteria for success. In current times, ENCOUNTER invites to think about different ways of interacting, encountering knowledge, and of having a critical presence.

Frauke Materlik – as an artist and landscape architect is interested in the perception, visualization and transformation of space. She was twice a resident in Nida Art Colony of Vilnius Academy of Arts. In her artistic practice, she combines photography, multi-part installations and narratives. Researching urban, rural and social landscapes and infrastructures, their overlaps and boundaries, her projects revolve around the fragility of life, the search for the location that promises home, shelter and housing, and the eternal question whereto? Her concepts translate into photographic series, light boxes, large-scale constructions in wood or fabric, and performative interventions.

Artist’s website: http://www.fraukematerlik.eu

This group show is based on her the workshops with children at National Gallery of Art.

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