Solo exhibition “Angsty Places”
2023.08.12-2023.10.01
Opening: 2023.08.12 19.00 pm
Solo exhibition “Angsty places” is part of the project “Aikas Žado Laboratory: Center of Biomimetics”. The opening of the exhibition will be held on the 12th of August, 2023, 19:00 pm. Later on, the exhibition can be visited until the 1st of October if agreed via +37061002855 or domasnoreika@gmail.com. Visiting the exhibition not on the opening night is subject to a fee: all received income will be allocated to the restoration works of the Žeimiai Manor House.
Participating artists: CASE (Ieva Lygnugarytė (LT) & Xavier Mitchell (NYC, US)) is an artist duo based in New York, US.
Curator of the exhibition: Eglė Ambrasaitė
Architect of an exhibition: Domas Noreika
Designer of the exhibition: Aušra Vismantaitė-Silva
Font: Gailė Pranckūnaitė
Organizer: Aikas Žado Laboratory
Line up of the exhibition opening (2023.08.12):
19.00 p.m – Opening (performance/special tour)
From 21.00 p.m – Late summer’s dances with A. Certo
ANGSTY PLACES:
There exists an old Ethiopian proverb saying that “Fish discover water last”. The only way for the fish to discover water is if it leaves its ‘normal’ habitat: the river, lake, pond or ocean it is immersed in. Thinking with the proverb, what are our assumptions concerning the reality that surrounds us – the beauty and frailty of our perceptions? How can we tackle the “givens” or “unquestioned norms”? How can we comprehend the “unknown unknowns”? And what happens if we leave the pre-established: what dies and what is reborn? Can, through a mutual disappearance and re-appearance of the sight, the diverse sight, immerse?
Touching upon these questions with kind observation, the works of the duo CASE invite us to navigate through our sights, habitats and troubles differently. To remove our heads out of the familiar. To glimpse into what lurks beyond, both out of and into our own personal angsty places.
*Aikas Žado Laboratory is a contemporary art device, constructed in Žeimiai manor house. Aikas Žado Laboratory is organized as an individually collaborative artwork of the artists Domas Noreika and Eglė Ambrasaitė, as well as a communal artwork. Part of its programs are administered, coordinated, and ideologically developed by the Aikas Žado Association. The main activities of the Laboratory are practical experiments related to the management of cultural heritage objects and the combination of discoveries, methods, techniques, and knowledge in the fields of contemporary art, science, and culture. The main principles of the Laboratory’s activities are illustrated by the application of conservation, prevention, and restoration systems in the Žeimiai Manor House. At the Laboratory, the team collects and tests historical materials, organizes scientific research and exhibitions, and presents cognitive expeditions that showcase specific solutions and methods of turning the manor house into a contemporary artwork.
