Passing on Resilience is a two-day programme about acts of remembering over generations, and in places. Memories are not just made by personal experiences. They can be passed down across passages of time through epigenetics and culture, especially when they are linked to trauma.
This collective, interactive, discursive project attempts to investigate the impact of post-Soviet trauma on present bodies and landscapes in Lithuania and the vicinity, and draws connections to Afropean post-colonial experiences.
The programme offers a multi-sensorial encounter with these subjects through film, somatic workshop, performative dinner, collective rituals, installations and talks. It bridges arts, psychology, performance and history. Its interlinked contributions shift between the scientific and artistic, the folkloristic and contemporary, the conscious and subconscious; it will try to hold space for the audience to engage actively, and to consider the collective consciousness as essential to easing pasts and softening futures.
Curated by Monika Dorniak. Contributions by Kamal Ahamada, Rasa Antanavičiūtė, Ieva Balčiūnė, Liza Baliasnaja & Rūta Junevičiūtė, Danutė Gailienė, Katherina Gorodynska, Agnė Jokšė, Michał Jurgielewicz and Jonas Palekas.
A project by Goethe-Institut Lithuania in cooperation with National Gallery of Art, SODAS 2123, Radio Vilnius and with support of Kirtimai Cultural Center.
Languages: English with simultaneous translation into Lithuanian.
Entrance is free.
16th of November
15:00 – 16:00h
Rasa Antanavičiūtė – Breaking centuries of continuity
Venue: In the exhibition Wilno, Vilnius, Wilne in the National Gallery Vilnius
Format: Historical talk & exhibition tour
16:00 – 17:00h
Ieva Balčiūnė, Michal Jurgielewicz, Jonas Palekas – Sugarcoating
Venue: Foyer, National Gallery Vilnius
Format: Storytelling & food workshop
17:30 – 20:00h
Kamal Ahamada – Restoration of dignity through culture
Venue: Auditorium, National Gallery Vilnius
Format: Lecture & workshop
Registration required: info-vilnius@goethe.de
Throughout the day
Katherina Gorodynska – All that is in the absent
Venue: Foyer, National Gallery Vilnius
Format: Installation & performance
17th of November
12:00 – 16:00h
Liza Baliasnaja & Rūta Junevičiūtė – Sore spots: scanning visceral manifestations of trauma
Venue: SODAS 2123
Format: Somatic workshop
Registration required
17:00 – 18:00h
Danute Gailiene – The Struggle Against Powerlessness
Venue: Auditorium, National Gallery Vilnius
Format: Discussion (moderated by Monika Dorniak)
18:00 – 18:50h
Agne Jokse – Unconditional Love
Venue: Auditorium, National Gallery Vilnius
Format: Film screening
19:00 – 19:30h
Katherina Gorodynska & Agne Jokse – The Violence of Language
Venue: Auditorium, National Gallery Vilnius
Format: Discussion (moderated by Monika Dorniak)
19:30 – 21:00h
Michal Jurgielewicz & Jonas Palekas – The Practice Of Airing
Venue: Foyer, National Gallery Vilnius
Format: Installation & performative dinner
Throughout the day
Katherina Gorodynska – All that is in the absent
Location: Foyer, National Gallery Vilnius
Format: Installation & performance
