Presentation of the “One Idea” series of publications

2024-09-01

On 5 September at 6 pm in the café of the cultural center SODAS 2123 a presentation of the series of publications “One Idea” with the compiler, LIAA member Jolanta Marcišauskyte Jurašienė, and the authors, LIAA members Gintaras Makarevičius, Laura Garbštiene, Milda Laužikaite and Jurgita Juodyte will take place.

“One Idea is a series of small-format artists’ notebooks launched in 2020 and continuing today. The basic idea and principle of the series is one notebook, one artist, one idea, which can take different forms each time – as notes of ideas, fragments of thoughts, self-reflections of all kinds, pulled out of long-forgotten drawers, computer hard drives, and sometimes prompted to get out of your head. A number of ideas have already “come out” of heads and drawers, and by sticking two out each year, we have already had five (with a sixth one on the way). This provides an excuse for the authors of the booklets to meet for a conversation about their mutual ideological neighbourhoods, unrealised ideas and corridors of inner self-reflection.

When we say: “I have one idea”, we immediately realise that it’s not necessarily brilliant or necessary. And who decided that all ideas have to be useful, applicable, embodied? According to Jolanta Marcišauskytė-Jurašienė, the compiler of the series, she wanted to see this series of individual artists’ ideas as a disinterested, personal and authentic collection of ideas that are not very important, not necessary, and whose accumulation would become more interesting as the years go by and more and more artists get involved.

The artists Laura Garbštienė, Jurga Juodytė, Milda Laužikaitė, Gintaras Makarevičius take part in the presentation and conversation. The conversation is moderated by Jolanta Marcišauskytė-Jurašienė, art historian and the cycle’s creator.

The authors presenter in the series are Ernestas Parulskis, Gintaras Makarevičius, Laura Garbštienė, Milda Laužikaitė, Jurgita Juodytė.

The series is designed by Marek Voida.
Printing house – Ariel Ink.
The event is organised by the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association.
The project is funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.