Emilija Škarnulytė. QSO lens

2015 11 27 — 2016 01 06 at Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
Author Echo Gone Wrong
Published in Events in Lithuania
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A disturbing, creepy feeling: something gigantic is distorting space itself. Making us see differently. Pulling and pushing objects, gigantic objects: a radio telescope, a mountain range. A hyperobject: something so large, so distributed across spacetime, that we can’t point to it. Something that transcends our sense of dimension and world, and our categories such as “object” and “subject.”
We sense it anamorphically: as a distortion of everything else. As a lens…”

         Timothy Morton, “You Are Inside a Wormhole”, text for the exhibition “QSO Lens”, 2015.

Emilija Škarnulytė studied sculpture at Brera University in Milan, Italy, and a Masters in Contemporary Art at Tromso academy in Norway. Her films have been presented in many international festivals, such as: Oberhausen film festival, “Hors Pistes”, Edinburough film festival, Sao Paulo film festival, “Message to a Man”, and exhibitions: “Manifesta 10” (2014) and Sao Paulo Biennale (2014).

The opening of the exhibition will take place on Friday 27th November at 6pm. On the opening night, VLBI Music – a realtime algorithmic composition based on signals from quasars – will be played. ØSO – quasar, quasi-stellar radio source. Quasars are massive and extremely remote celestial objects, emitting exceptionally large amounts of energy. VLBI is used to determine the Earth’s exact position and rotation, which is essential for calibrating satellite based navigation and measurements.

The VLBI Music is composed by Oeyvind Brandtsegg (Norway).

In occasion of the exhibition opening a conversation with philosopher Timothy Morton titled “You Are Inside the Wormhole” will be held on Saturday 28th November, at 6pm. 

Exhibition coordinator: Edgaras Gerasimovičius
Exhibition architects: Jurga Daubaraitė ir Jonas Žukauskas
Sound design: Jokūbas Čižikas
Graphic design: Jurgis Griškevičius