Durational performance and video screening: the last day of the exhibition #FAMM.BA.2022 / I Know You’re Already Longing
2022-06-16
On 17 June 2022, Atletika gallery (Vitebsko Str. 21, Vilnius) will host the ongoing performance Dust the putin by artist Akvilė Murauskaitė and the ongoing screening of the audiovisual album Nice to Meet You by artist Matas Petkūnas. These works will be presented on the evening of the Culture Night event in Vilnius city and on the last day of the exhibition #FAMM.BA.2022 / I Know You’re Already Longing. The exhibition is organised by the Department of Photography and Media Art of Vilnius Academy of Arts in collaboration with the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association, curated by Gedvilė Tamošiūnaitė.
The audiovisual album Nice to Meet You by artist Matas Petkūnas was created by using material from demagnetized video cassettes purchased at the Kalvarija Market and artist’s personal documentation of everyday life recorded with a VHS camera, as well as music composed based on his experience after moving to Vilnius from the province.
Akvilė Murauskaitė’s artistic performance Fuck Putin invites the audience to get involved in an active action: “On 9 May I invited everyone for the first time to congratulate huilo by fucking him, and for the second time the action will take place on 17 June, during the Culture Night event in Vilnius. As the fourth month of this genocide approaches, I can no longer contain my anger, and I believe you can’t as well. The orc ship is sinking, but too slowly, and the desire to smash putin’s muzzle is growing each day. This is an artistic performance the course of which is up to you. You don’t have to bring anything, just join the dusting.”
Date and time: 17/06/2022 20:00–22:00
The screening of the audiovisual album will be followed by a discussion with the author of the work, at a time of the author’s choice (according to his mood).
Exhibition open 15:00–22:00
Location: Atletika gallery, Vitebsko Str. 21, Vilnius
About exhibition #FAMM.BA.2022 / I Know You’re Already Longing
letter to the Future
I wanted to create a safe space for you, a place where you can immerse yourself in the uncertainty of your own feelings. You can vent your anger, touch your anxiety with your finger, feel its living sliminess. When you find yourself here, you’ll be exhausted – I have left you the depth of the purest water, a bed of moss to lie down on… I hope that my hours of solitude and silence have turned into threads that connect us, and we’ll discover a conversation penetrating into the very centre of the Earth.
I am sliding along the uneven surfaces of the space, curled up, indescribable, while your eyes are sensitive to light – you will no longer see my face clearly, only clouds of chemical colours, cracks, spilt pixels. I don’t know how you’re going to use the tools I’ve left. You are probably afraid to touch them – they remind you of the pain I have felt. Now they are strangely beautiful bodies, and you are the one who’ll make up their rules – here, you can play.
I wanted to create a cosy darkness for you, where you won’t be afraid that I will catch up. Now I’m just a digital light, and my raging voice bounces off the crumbling walls. It’s hard for you to turn away from it.
Eventually, you will get used to the rampant wind and the hottest sun, sinking into its harsh embrace. You’re probably uncomfortable because it’s not clear where I end and where you begin.
I have left soothing words, and the spells, you already know them.
The Future is a guest of the exhibition, the exhibition is a letter to the Future, an invitation to accept that the notion of normality has lost its meaning. The Future is invited to reflect and to grasp on the change it has gone through over those four years, containing the uncontrollable and irrational period that began with an abstract, invisible threat to the human body and which ends as a confrontation with the clear and undeniable face of the enemy. This is what is reflected in the students’ work – from abstract works reflecting on inner experiences, loneliness and isolation, to clear words full of anger and rage, commenting on current events and global structures.
Artists: Akvilė Murauskaitė, Matas Petkūnas, Bernadeta Brazdžionytė, Saulė Marija Rimkevičiūtė, Veronika Gudeliauskaitė, Arijus Pijus, Aušrinė Ražanskaitė, Dovilė Kazlauskaitė, Justina Jaruševičiūtė, Karolis Kolesničenko, Kornelija Kupstaitė, Naglis Dzinga, Rolanda Jastrumskytė, Žygimantas Bėrontas & Gabija Pernavaitė, Liucija Teodora Mikučionytė, Vilija Simutytė
Curator: Gedvilė Tamošiūnaitė
Exhibition architects: Edgar Vladimirenko and Eglė Kliučinskaitė
Opening hours: 25/05 – 17/06/2022 Wednesdays to Fridays 15:00 – 20:00, Saturdays 15:00 – 21:00.
Location: Atletika gallery, Vitebsko Str. 21, Vilnius
The exhibition is organised by the Department of Photography and Media Art of Vilnius Academy of Arts in cooperation with the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association (LIAA).
Activities of LIAA are supported by Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius City Municipality.
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