02\u201311 June 2016
\nIV \u2013 VI 4\u20138 pm
\nOpening 1 June 2016, 6 pm, first reading 8 pm
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Sometimes things are what they seem.<\/p>\n
Not unlike a manifold organism, this exhibition relates seemingly unrelated parameters such as uneven distribution of time, unmediated reality leakages, plankton and colour theories\u2014you name it.<\/p>\n
For example, a word \u2018violet\u2019 \u2014a petal colour of a pansy [Viola Melanium] \u2014refers not only to a certain man\u2019s sweater colour from one of the unsolved criminal cases of the last decade, but also to a codename of a former secret CIA prison near Vilnius. Only one letter separates \u2018violet\u2019 from \u2018violent.\u2019 Perhaps, this forcefully summoned and thus contingent letter n describes this exhibition best.<\/p>\n
Also, let us not forget the location of the exhibition space. It is in the midst of an odorous and garrulous quarter. Its faces and facades are telling rather eloquent stories about how we understand our democracy, capitalism, streets, and ourselves. How we are taken over by accelerationism\u2014a contemporary political heresy according to which the only radical political decision is not to protest, critique, or enforce a turnover, but to accelerate capitalism\u2019s malign tendencies such as alienation and the loss or abstraction of roots.<\/p>\n
Let us listen in to these streets. Indeed, the Sod\u0173 Street neighbourhood is also a lab for the processes such as commodification (cheap labour force, prostitution), class struggle (contemporary art space also becomes a participant in the game of the class struggle), urban gentrification (newly established hipster pubs, steak take-aways, etc.), and many other processes currently happening not only in the city, but in the whole country as well.<\/p>\n
Sometimes things are what they seem.<\/p>\n
Artworks<\/p>\n
A THEORY OF THE PLANKTON, video, 8 min. 59 sec., 2016
\nDo you know what the paradox of the plankton is? In aquatic biology, the paradox of the plankton describes the situation in which a limited range of resources supports an unexpectedly wide range of plankton species. This theory apparently disregards the competitive exclusion principle. It holds that when two species compete for the same resource, one will be driven to extinction. Similarly, this exhibition is driven not by a single concept but by various interests, beliefs, fields, vectors, and more.<\/p>\n
This video has been made in collaboration with Gail\u0117 Pranck\u016bnait\u0117 (design, editing) and Yorgia Karidi (voice, soundtrack) with contributions by Nick Bastis, Dorota Gaweda and Egl\u0117 Kulbokait\u0117, Kaspars Groshevs, Pakui Hardware, Georges Jacotey, Mikko Kuorinki, Karl Larsson, Fritz Laszlo Weber, Nicholas Matranga, Jaakko Pallasvuo, Michael Portnoy, Iza Tarasewicz, Saemundur Thor Helgason, and, possibly, you.<\/p>\n
BLINDNESS, Majd Kara, (b. 1986 Homs, Syria, currently living and working in Rukla, Lithuania), oil on canvas, 2016.<\/p>\n
TORNADO WITH SMALL RECESSES, Nicholas Matranga (b. 1983 San Diego, USA, living and working in Vilnius, Lithuania), wall drawing, 2016.<\/p>\n
Reading programme<\/p>\n
Texts: Dorota Gaweda and Egl\u0117 Kulbokait\u0117 \u201efor a future X: essential killing\u201c, Eileen Myles, extracts from \u201eInferno\u201c, Jaakko Pallasvuo, extracts from \u201eScorched Earth\u201c, \u017demait\u0117 \u201eKaip Petriukas raides pa\u017eino\u201c (\u201cHow Peter Got To Know The Letters\u201d) and others.
\nLocation: Hal\u0117 market stairs.
\nDates: 1, 3, 10 June 2016, 8 pm.<\/p>\n
Curator: Valentinas Klima\u0161auskas
\nGraphic design: Gail\u0117 Pranck\u016bnait\u0117<\/p>\n
This exhibition is organised by Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association, with kind support from Lithuanian Council for Culture and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania. Opening sponsors: Bar \u201cD\u0117v\u0117ti\u201d and \u201cDundulis\u201d beer.<\/p>\n
Project Space \u201eSod\u0173 4\u201c
\nSod\u0173 Str. 4, Vilnius<\/p>\n
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