This Friday (25 November 2011, 6 pm) we are delighted to invite you to the opening of Raimundas Malašauskas’ Photo Finish. The project is made up from at least six elements - a book, several curated days, a radio program, a chair, a hologram exhibition and Vilnius Sling (or The Old Cobbler of Vilnius), a new cocktail authored by Jody Monteith.
The recipe for Vilnius Sling was devised through several synesthetic translations - its name first appeared in a book by Jason Doge, letters then turned into colors, colors transformed into flavors and flavors gradually merged into an exclusive drink to be savored for the first time on the opening night.
And then there's the hologram. In 1982, Peter Ustinov’s theater play Photo Finish was staged in Vilnius with several actors simultaneously playing one character (Sam) at different stages of his life. A group of actors from that 1982 production (Antanas Šurna, Arûnas Storpirštis, Gerardas Þalënas, Elvyra Þebertavièiûtë, Kristina Andrejauskaitë) were invited to the hologramic space recently orchestrated by Raimundas Malašauskas with various shapes and visions and several works by Fia Backström, Gintaras Didþiapetris, Elena Narbutaitë and Rosalind Nashashibi.
The holograms will sit on a custom-made chair co-produced by Gediminas G. Akstinas, Liudvikas Buklys, Antanas Gerlikas and Jurgis Paškevièius.
In the morning of the opening day, around 9 am, the group of actors will take part in an improvised conversation-turning-into-a-play together with Audrey Cottin, Marius Èechanavièius, Gerda Paliušytë and Inesa Pavlovskaitë. This will be aired on the National Radio’s Klasika broadcast. Tune into 105.1 FM if in Vilnius.
During the exhibition several days will come with a score attached to them. In case you want to be around when this happens, drop a line to raimay@gmail.com and register.
A catalogue of examples and 50 different alphabets will be printed before the show is over.
The exhibition is organised by the CAC and the Tulips&Roses gallery with the support of Geola Digital, Novotel Vilnius and Vilniaus diena. Photo Finish is part of the project Experiment & Excellence realised with the support of the Culture 2007-2013 programme of the European Union.
Tonis Saadoja’s photo installation "14.06.09" refers to the date of the first mass deportation in Estonia by the Soviet troops in 1941. The photos are taken in Tallinn the same night 68 years later, each portraying an empty crossroad. Although the portrayed locations have individually no specific connection to historic deportation sites, and rather follow a mind construction, what if it happened today, the pictures are displayed in a sequence from the late 19th century bourgeois suburb towards the modernist Soviet blocks of houses of 1980s. Presented as a lightbox installation the work physically influences the viewers’ control over the surrounding space, serving as a memorial piece to situations where human control is replaced by force majeure.
The lightbox installation is accompanied by a video work "21.05.09" (aka ESC) by Flo Kasearu referring to an awkward real life incident with escaped hippodrome horses galloping in a desolate Tallinn some years ago on the night of the 21st of May. Being partly a reconstruction of the documentary events the video features a digital high speed graffiti displayed on the facades of Tallinn. The expressive galloping of a symbolic white horse in a desperate boy racer situation leads to a powerful trip through the city presented from a perspective of the invisible persuader.
The third work to the artists’ collaborative project is a textbook featuring thematic quotations from world literature, history books and newspapers, presented as a new collage on copy/paste method by deporting the text from it’s original context. The textbooks are available for pick up from the exhibition venue.
This exhibition is part of the „Survival Kit“ project, realized with a support from European Union program "Culture 2007-2013". Other sponsors: Estonian Embassy in Lithuania, Estonian Ministry of Culture, Center for Contemporary Arts (Tallinn), Novotel.
Karl Larsson of or before the forum
2/12 2011 -- 15/1 2012
The title of this exhibition comes from the English translation of the Latin word forensis. Forensic science is the application of a broad spectrum of sciences to answer questions of interest to a legal system. In other words, the collected efforts, tools and structures used to clarify an obscure case.
room with windows opens up to reveal the interior structure of a place where law has become part of the furniture
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what is the first sculpture it is the anti-book what is the first book it is time turned into volume
sealed by the Roman alphabet writing starts with an assumption for once, time is just not passing but channeled through a discursive form like an evocation
and after this, a shattered moment unbearable to deal with, the shame of one who has tried to occupy more space than that of his own body are there ways out of this small suicide by fragmentization
from "Parrot" by Karl Larsson, Paraguay Press, 2010
Karl Larsson is an artist, poet and part of the editorial group of OEI, periodical of conceptual writing and poetry. His work as an artist is sculptural, as well as language based. As a poet Larsson applies an essayistic form of poetical reasoning, as well as a conceptual awareness. His three books of poetry are: Form/Force (OEI Editör 2007), Nightsong (OEI Editör 2009) and Parrot (Paraguay Press 2010). Recent solo exhibitions at: Index (Stockholm, SE), Neue Aachener Kunstverein (Aachen, GE). Recent group exhibitions at Moderna Museet (Stockholm, SE), 6th Momentum Biennial (Moss, NO)
This exhibition is part of the project Survival Kit realised with the support of the programme “Culture 2007–2013” of the European Union.
