Artist talk by Anna Romanenko and Björn Kühn
- Published on Tuesday, 25 February 2020 13:04
| Monday, 2 March at 16:00, VAA in Vilnius, Malūnų g. 3, 102 aud.: Artist talk by Anna Romanenko and Björn Kühn, moderated by Vytautas Michelkevičius. The artists Romanenko and Kühn just ended their fourth residency at NAC. During their talk, they will look back over their work in general, beginning with their initial NAC residency in the spring of 2014, a stay that turned out to be a compressed node of their practice. They will also speak about their previous projects, among them Liminal Dome and the Publishing House for Handbooks, and their practice of site-specificity, objecthood and contextual maneuvering. “Our work focuses on relationships that can be built with others: humans, things, environments. Among other things, we have built under-water habitats, shooting ranges, choreographies for star-observations, grafted fruits to distill a spirit for toasting the end of the world, and the development of a procedure to produce friendship among a group of people through a technique that uses facial blushing. Often we construct objects to alter the work flows of fixed symbolic machines, or propose new habits based on the use of these objects. Triggering the appearance of new relations, we take aim at the composition of subjectivity, since the subject can be thought of as the sum of its social relations. We write and rewrite manuals, handbooks, and other linear notations of engagement. We protocol these constructions and alterations in the hope for a future where these might come in handy.” 2 March at 16:00, auditorium 102, Malūnų st. 3 (building C1) The event will be held in English. Organized by VAA Nida Art Colony, VAA Doctoral Studies Department WIth support by Lithuanian Council for Culture |