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On October 4, 2024, at 7 pm, a guided tour of the current exhibition Disciplines with the curator Jurij Dobriakov and exhibiting artists will take place at the Atletika gallery. The exhibition Disciplines features works by recent members of the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists\u2019 Association (LIAA) \u2013 Greta Eimulyt\u0117, Vaiva Grainyt\u0117, Elena Grudzinskait\u0117, Algirdas Jakas, Elena Kanarskait\u0117, Liudvikas Kesminas, Indr\u0117 Li\u0161kauskait\u0117, Donata Minderyt\u0117, and R\u016bta Spelskyt\u0117. Yet the perception of (artistic) disciplines has also changed. They are not considered synonymous with retrograde modernism and parochial traditionalism anymore; on the contrary, questioning the ideologies of vehement contemporaryism and declarative interdisciplinarity, artists and other cultural practitioners unironically indulge in the pleasures offered by the \u2018new old\u2019 disciplines \u2013 textile, drawing, moulding, glassmaking, painting, sculpture and even folk art. Instead of longing for the innocence of these disciplines, they have a sense that the immersive, material and psychoaesthetic qualities of the latter perfectly resonate with the present without any clear timestamps. The face of the disciplines is familiar yet already different. They are no longer a taboo or a fetish; rather, they are something that evades the vocabularies to which we have become accustomed.<\/p>\n At the same time it is interesting to ponder the authors\u2019 personal disciplines \u2013 routines, procedures, rituals, productivity and inspiration-seeking exercises. There is definitely a connection between the comeback of artistic disciplines in new guises and the ongoing discursive turn to sincerity, care, mental wellness, inclusion, openness and sustainability. The exhibition seeks to trace the interrelation between disciplinary expression and all-encompassing emotional self-discipline, or at least to offer hints about its possible forms.<\/p>\n Guided tour Image: Greta Eimulyt\u0117. The gloves, my Love, are made of dog\u2019s skin, though it is mine, for I hold myself a faithful dog. Exhibition Disciplines. Photo by Laurynas Skeisgiela.<\/p>\n <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":10336,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1561],"tags":[],"yoast_head":"\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n
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\nThe notion of interdisciplinarity, ingrained in the name of the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists\u2019 Association, has periodically triggered debate and critique over the recent decades \u2013 heated at times and occasionally tinted with resignation, accepting the term\u2019s inevitable latitude, vagueness, and odd temporality. Eventually the prevailing attitude came to be that interdisciplinarity was simply the status quo of present-day art rather than an attribute that ensured a radically new, different quality and contemporaneity. Today the term seems to have become a mechanically repeated trope or a pragmatic state funding allocation classifier, while \u2018interdisciplinarians\u2019 (members of the LIAA in the narrow sense) are not an easily definable and recognisable tribe they once were.<\/p>\n
\n<\/span>2024\/10\/04 19.00 (exhibition open till 22.00)
\nWorking hours
\n<\/span>2024\/09\/06\u201310\/12 IV\u2013V 16.00\u201319.00, VI 13.00\u201317.00
\n<\/span>Address: Atletika gallery, Vitebsko 21, Vilnius.
\nAdmission to the exhibition and tours is free of charge, without registration.
\n<\/span>Organised by the <\/span>Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists\u2019 Association. Activities of LIAA are financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius City Municipality.<\/span><\/p>\n