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The Lithuanian Pavilion Without Walls is co-organized by Performa, the Lithuanian Culture Institute, and Consulate General of the Republic of Lithuania in New York, with generous support from the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania, among others. It is also generously supported by Lithuania Foundation. Together, the partners will commission and present new works by contemporary Lithuanian artists Lina Lapelytė and Pakui Hardware, as well as Performa Projects by Raimundas Malašauskas, Robert Narkus, and Augustas Serapinas.
Initiated in 2013, the Pavilion Without Walls program reflects Performa’s commitment to presenting the social, political, and artistic landscapes of different countries through live performance. Over the last decade, this curatorial platform has brought voices from Australia, Estonia, Norway, Poland, South Africa, Sweden, Finland, and Taiwan to New York audiences. Each Pavilion is developed over a two-year research period in close collaboration with cultural institutions, curators, artists, and educators from the featured country to create a dynamic and deeply contextual program.
Join us to celebrate the launch of Vessel… as a Journal, surrounded by friends, followed by a conversation between Defne Ayas, Raimundas Malašauskas and Neringa Černiauskaitė (Pakui Hardware), inviting to explore performance as a form of reality production for collective imagination.
* as a Journal offers a fresh outlook on contemporary cultural movements and recognises the insightful contributions that artists, creators and researchers from Lithuania and beyond bring to topics of global concern.
Published twice a year, the title of * as a Journal, changes along with the theme of each issue and invites readers to immerse themselves in a single topic from a range of unexpected cultural perspectives. The content of each issue of the magazine is developed by guest editors with a special interest in the chosen topic and created by an international team of contributors.
For the 9th edition, guest editor Defne Ayas asked: What is the relationship between art, reality, and performance in the present moment? How does performance as a medium inform and shape our understanding of politics today, and how is it, in turn, informed? What are our desires, hopes, and fantasies in this era, and how are selfhood, eroticism, and nature represented in the 21st century? How do encryption, coding, and staging operate within politics, social media, and every sphere of our lives? How do elements like fashion, sound, and love intersect with the medium?
Finally, in the face of global and personal tides of annihilation, how do artists "dance" with one another in this moment? Can we eavesdrop on peer-to-peer conversations—those moments of exchange and connection that shape the fabric of our camouflages and acts of self-preservation? What lies at the heart of how artists perform—and perform themselves? And how does this manifest within the live medium?
Contributors
Adam Kleinman
Adrien Sina
Agnietė Lisičkinaitė
Alexis Blake
Augustas Serapinas
Ayoung Kim
Cao Fei
Emilija Škarnulytė
Florentina Holzinger
Gabriel Lester
Goksu Kunak
Job Piston
Kathy Noble
Kira Nova
L.on Kruijswijk
Lina Lapelytė
Michael Portnoy
Moriah Evans
Neringa Bumblienė
Pakui Hardware (Neringa
Černiauskaitė and Ugnius Gelguda)
Raimundas Malašauskas
Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė
Sandra Straukaitė
Tom Engels
Trajal Harrell
Vaidas Jauniškis
Vaiva Grainytė
Valentine de Saint-Point
Guest editor
Defne Aya
Editor
Kotryna Lingienė
English language editor
Gemma Lloyd
Special thanks to
Taisa B.
Translators
Adrien Sina (pp. 38-41)
Editorial board
Adomas Narkevičius
Monika Gimbutaitė
Vaiva Grainytė
Vlada Kalpokaitė-Kručkauskienė
Acknowledgements
The Lithuanian Culture Institute is grateful to members of the initiative group of * as a Journal: Dovydas Kiauleikis, Ernestas Parulskis, Gražina Michnevičiūtė, Jogintė Bučinskaitė, Julijonas Urbonas and Kristupas Sabolius.
Principal design
Godspeed Branding
Issue design
Inga Navickaitė-Drąsutė
Publisher
Lithuanian Culture Institute
Z. Sierakausko str. 15, LT-03105
Vilnius, Lithuania
Lithuanian Culture Institute team
Ignė Alėbaitė (project manager)
Julija Reklaitė
Rūta Nanartavičiūtė
Vlada Kalpokaitė-Kručkauskienė
Supported by
Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania