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The 2026 season of the LIAA podcast is dedicated to artistic autonomy and the conditions that allow art to remain free and critical. In the second episode of the season, cultural critic Monika Gimbutait\u0117 speaks with artist Dainius Li\u0161kevi\u010dius, one of the initiators and long-standing members of LIAA.<\/p>\n
The conversation takes Li\u0161kevi\u010dius\u2019s 2000 performance Kliaksas \/ Restartas<\/em> as its starting point. It returns to the circumstances in which the work was created, its relationship with national symbols and Lithuanian society at the time. More than two decades later, the work re-entered the public sphere in a different political and social context, becoming part of public debate and legal proceedings.<\/p>\n The history of the work offers a broader perspective on artistic autonomy. The conversation touches on creative freedom, the life of an artwork after it has been made, shifting interpretations, and the artist\u2019s limited ability to control how their work is read. It also reflects on the wider relationship between art, politics, public space and institutions.<\/p>\n