On 2 November, 2017 at 6 pm Kaunas Artists’ House (Putvinskio st. 56, Kaunas) will host the closing program of the curated residency CENTRAS. The event will have an enacted introduction of a new catalog – a tour around exhibition Centras: institution_periphery_synapse, also Young Girl Reading Group 149 led by Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė as well as a presentation of their new artwork.
With YGRG 149, Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė will present their new work titled LE MUSÉE MENTEUR conceived in relation to the reading of excerpts of Paul B Preciado’s (https://goo.gl/LTFdtR) Gender Sexuality and Biopolitics of Architecture. YGRG is a platform developed through fascination with reading and sharing text, primarily, interest in language and its multiple forms. We read together pronouncing the words out loud, emphasizing the relationship of body to text and the collective body. YGRG is a sonar-social architecture of shared curiosity and synchronicity, it is a live Instagram hangout, a self-conscious aesthetic chamber for intimacy and discovery. YGRG addresses feminist inspired theory and fiction, technology-driven emancipation and discursiveness of space.
The exhibition is on view 17 October – 3 November, 2017 Monday – Friday 11am – 7pm at Kaunas Artists’ House. Participants: Lehman Brothers (INSTITUTION), Monika Janulevičiūtė and Antanas Lučiūnas (PERIPHERY), Eglė Kulbokaitė and Dorota Gawęda (SYNAPSE).
Active for more than ten years, festival CENTRAS of Kaunas comes back after a year as an international curated artist residency. This year’s conceptual framework if formed around name ‘Centre’ that helps open up vast concepts of INSTITUTION – PERIPHERY – SYNAPSE. Research points suggested by the curator Vaida Stepanovaitė are intertwined with the ever-evolving cultural landscape of Kaunas and reflect the need to rethink ways of experiencing contemporaneity. International artist residency CENTRAS is based on artistic and curatorial research conducted in the contexts of Kaunas and Lithuania, exploring the liminal and parallel connections. The artist collectives choose their approaches and strategies to the suggested topics as incisions in the form of an exhibition and educational program.
The residency is partly funded by Kaunas municipality, and partners with Kaunas Artists’ House. Thanks to Saari Residence, Kone Foundation, The Danish Arts Foundation.
