As part of the “Women’s Voices: Representation of 20th and 21st Century Lithuanian Women Artists” program [1], in partnership with Artnews.lt [2] and Echo Gone Wrong [3] within the scope of the 2024 France-Lithuania cultural season, researcher-in-residence Inesa Brašiškė will present her research on November 28, in conversation with Franco-Belgian collective Bye Bye Binary, artist and writer Agnė Jokšė and curator and art historian Oksana Karpovets.
The evening is dedicated to contemporary feminist and queer engagement with language as it appears in artists’ and activists’ work. Through their work, they explore language’s performative capacity to make bodies both appear and disappear and examine the potentials and pitfalls of translation and re-writing, communication and misunderstanding.
The event will feature a performative lecture by artist and writer Agnė Jokšė on emancipatory potential of storytelling but also on limits of translation and attunement; a presentation on the possibility of the post-binary language and critical potentials of rewriting by Bye Bye Binary (BBB); and a reflection on voice and storytelling in Ukrainian feminist art by Oksana Karpovets. Navigating through English, French, Lithuanian and Ukrainian, the conversation is also an exercise in comprehension, a momentary alliance even if based on what Aruna D’Souza calls “imperfect understandings”.
Thursday, November 28, starting 6:00 pm
Villa Vassilieff
21, avenue du Maine
75015 Paris
The conversation will navigate through English, French, Lithuanian and Ukrainian
More information: https://awarewomenartists.com/en/nos_evenements/autour-des-voix/