28th of March – 14th of April, 2019
Project curators: Marquard Smith (project curator) and Jurij Dobriakov (co-curator)
Exhibition participants: Arnas Anskaitis, Dovilė Bagdonaitė, Eglė Bertašiūtė, Jogintė Bučinskaitė, Vitalij Červiakov, Dovilė Dagienė, Vytautas Gečas, Barbora Gediminaitė, Eglė Grėbliauskaitė, Dalia Grybauskaitė, Mindaugas Jurėnas, Kristė Kibildytė-Klimienė, Aistė Kisarauskaitė, Laima Kreivytė, Liucija Kvašytė, Saulius Leonavičius, Justė Pečiulytė, Marija Šaboršinaitė, Jelena Škulienė, Aušra Trakšelytė, Simona Žemaitytė, Asta Valskienė, Mindaugas Reklaitis
Energized by the 30th anniversary of Spikes Lee’s 1989 film Do the Right Thing, the project developed and realised by Art, Design, asn Art Criticism doctoral students at Vilnius Academy of Arts seeks to utilise the radical potentialities of artistic research, and ask more universal questions about the current state of the art world, academic system, and society at large.
How can we as artists, designers, historians, theorists, educators, and critics engage critically with power? Where soed power reside? How is it secured, consolidated, and utilised? And to what end? If power is embedded and embodied in systems, how can we discern, participate critically, and even transform such systems? How should we navigate our way throuhh this quagmire of power–knowledge–control, which shapes truth, and interpellates us as subjects of and to its ideology? If such governmentality is the organised and organising practices (mentalities, rationalities, and techniques) through which our society is rendered governable, why and how might we prove ourselves to be ungovernable?
The project is an occasion to look to the future, to how we might envisage the future, and to do so in order to not only interpret the world in various ways, but to change it. In our own search for justice, how can our research-as-praxis – our labour, aour communicative bodies, our performative acts, our conversations, our commitment to communities and to our own creative practice itself – declare our resistance and dissent, our agonism and dissensus, thereby enacting our right to speak which, in turn, enables us to not so much fight the power as fight for power, and, in so doing, honour our obligation to do the right thing?
VAA Titanikas Gallery, 1st floor (Maironio Str. 3, Vilnius)
Opening hours:Tue–Sat, 12.00–18.00
Photography: Laurynas Skeisgiela
Jogintė Bučinskaitė, Previewer, 2019
Jogintė Bučinskaitė, Previewer, 2019
Jogintė Bučinskaitė, Previewer, 2019
Saulius Leonavičius, A Hunger Strike, an Example. A 10-day hunger strike in memoriam Petras Cidzikas, 2019
Saulius Leonavičius, A Hunger Strike, an Example. A 10-day hunger strike in memoriam Petras Cidzikas, 2019
Do the Right Thing, exhibition view, VAA Titanikas Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2019
Kristė Kibildytė-Klimienė, Non-Superficial Surface, 2019
Kristė Kibildytė-Klimienė, Non-Superficial Surface, 2019
Do the Right Thing, exhibition view, VAA Titanikas Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2019
Arnas Anskaitis, The Echo of Words Apart, 2019
Arnas Anskaitis, The Echo of Words Apart, 2019
Mindaugas Reklaitis, Morph, 2019
Mindaugas Reklaitis, Morph, 2019
Dovilė Bagdonaitė, I Choose Britney Because She Won, 2019
Dovilė Bagdonaitė, I Choose Britney Because She Won, 2019
Dovilė Bagdonaitė, I Choose Britney Because She Won, 2019
Do the Right Thing, exhibition view, VAA Titanikas Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2019
Liucija Kvašytė, Neanderthal Is a New Fashion, 2019
Liucija Kvašytė, Neanderthal Is a New Fashion, 2019
Do the Right Thing, exhibition view, VAA Titanikas Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2019
Aušra Trakšelytė, Delay, 2019
Aušra Trakšelytė, Delay, 2019
Eglė Grėbliauskaitė, Speak Now, 2019
Eglė Grėbliauskaitė, Speak Now, 2019
Jelena Škulis (Škulienė), Textile Didactic 0: In-Activism, 2019
Jelena Škulis (Škulienė), Textile Didactic 0: In-Activism, 2019
Marija Šaboršinaitė, Remembrance Wants, 2019
Marija Šaboršinaitė, Remembrance Wants, 2019
Do the Right Thing, exhibition view, VAA Titanikas Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2019
Simona Žemaitytė, Kaunas – London, 2019
Do the Right Thing, exhibition view, VAA Titanikas Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2019
Laima Kreivytė, Anatomy of an Institution, 2019
Eglė Bertašiūtė, Sea Buckthorns, 2019
Eglė Bertašiūtė, Sea Buckthorns, 2019
Eglė Bertašiūtė, Sea Buckthorns, 2019
Justė Pečiulytė, The Atmospheric Staging Studio, 2019
Justė Pečiulytė, The Atmospheric Staging Studio, 2019
Do the Right Thing, exhibition view, VAA Titanikas Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2019
Vitalij Červiakov, Walking Is Still Honest, 2018–2019
Vitalij Červiakov, Walking Is Still Honest, 2018–2019
Do the Right Thing, exhibition view, VAA Titanikas Gallery, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2019
Aistė Kisarauskaitė, 1 Are, 2019
Aistė Kisarauskaitė, 1 Are, 2019
Aistė Kisarauskaitė, 1 Are, 2019
Aistė Kisarauskaitė, 1 Are, 2019
Dovilė Dagienė, Suspended Light: Two Suns, 2019
Dovilė Dagienė, Suspended Light: Two Suns, 2019
Dovilė Dagienė, Suspended Light: Two Suns, 2019
Mindaugas Jurėnas, Vacuum Equalizer, 2019
Mindaugas Jurėnas, Vacuum Equalizer, 2019
Barbora Gediminaitė, (n)object, 2019
Barbora Gediminaitė, (n)object. Time. Measures of a pray. Life in two time dimensions. Rasheed, Egypt.
Vytautas Gečas, Entity Determination, 2019
Vytautas Gečas, Entity Determination, 2019
