Dear Meduza Z
Here are the following coordinates of the arrival of the body of the lover I cannot have. This Saturday the 22nd Oct, 2016 at 1800 hours, a package of the weight of 82 kg will arrive at:
N 54 41 0.47 E 25 17 38.198
Please keep safe and bring to:
N 54 40 25.629 E 25 17 4.702
Follow instructions precisely:
Open the bag at the location and with gentle movements pour out the body of chestnuts in the far left corner of the project space. Leave as is. Please do not touch the chestnuts when they have exited the bag.
Violet Ruta XX
Project space Sodų 4 has invited artist Julie Lænkholm for the solo show Smuggling Borders of the Bodily Line. Working with site specific performance for the past years, the artist has been making song pieces which investigate the intersection between lived life and art. Lænkholm became interested in Lithuanian song festivals as a collective gathering and as a political argument and has already spent one month researching at Nida Art Colony of the Vilnius Academy of Arts and visited Vilnius city. Playing with interconnections between political territory, human body and social (sonic) interactions Lænkholm is investigating the limits of borders and cohabitations.
Keywords: sci–fi romanticism, magic–phonic, invisible power, breathing of the body.
Julie Lænkholm is a New York based emerging artist born in Copenhagen, Denmark. Lænkholm works in various mediums and with a provisional approach to sculpture. Her practice unfolds in an almost ritualistic manner with a particular sensitivity for materials. Through the haptic, she investigates the awakening of materials and curates her work in a seemingly arbitrary however precise manner, what she calls ‘situations’. Expectation is a key word in her practice. Lately she has been working with site specific performances using singing as a medium, organising a piece where local fishermen of Seydisfjordur sang a poem outside of the local gas station during Icelandic festival Listi Ljosi. Lænkholm received her Masters degree in Fine Arts from Parsons School of Design in 2015. During her graduate years she was a scholar at The Bikuben Foundation of New York, received grants such as The New School Student Senate Grant, The Klint award in 2015, was artist in residence at LungA School, Iceland, in 2015.
Organised by: Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association
Opening performance with singer Dorotė Zdanavičiūtė
Photography: Laurynas Skeisgiela
Project Space Sodų 4
Sodų Str. 4, Vilnius
27 October – 12 November 2016
IV–VI 4–8 pm