TECHNOLOGIES of DELUSION and RESONANCE | Rupert opening programme
The exhibition and performance programme ‘ARITHMOPHILIA and the TECHNOLOGIES of DELUSION and RESONANCE’ celebrates Rupert’s move to the Naujamiestis district of Vilnius, at Mindaugo 15, bringing the art institution in closer contact with the city and its growing, active communities.
From 24 October until 1 November, the public are welcomed to visit the new facility, see the participating artists’ works, and join its programme of conversations, screenings, and studio visits with Rupert alumni.
To mark the occasion, Rupert invited former and future participants in its programmes to contribute physical and immaterial responses to the question: how do artists manage compounding personal and professional pressures—creative, political, economic, and social? How can we learn from their experiences? Arithmophilia—a love of numbers—references the unplanned effects of society’s uncritical devotion to data and finance. Several prominent international artists and groups like Meriem Bennani, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Toril Johannessen, Hanne Lippard, and Nuova Orfeo are presenting their work for the first time in Lithuania. Other participating artists like Donna Marcus Duke, Gosia Lehmann, and Ieva Rižė are recent alumni of Rupert’s programmes.
The programme and the accompanying publication, highlights the transformation of Rupert and its new address over the past year, with the contributions of architects Ona Lozuraitytė and Petras Išora, designers Jana Sofie Liebe and Augustinas Milkus, and the photographic documentation of Lukas Mykolaitis. The publication features several interviews with other initiatives admired by the Rupert team, including the School of Poetic Computation (New York), Weird Economies (Canada, the Netherlands, and online), and an essay by Toril Johannessen.
Programme
Friday 24 October
18.00–22.00
18.00
Doors open, Mindaugo 15
18.15
Donna Marcus Duke, The Duke Foundation for Future Research Arts Under Duress, performance
18.30
Welcome and introduction
19.00
Gosia Lehmann, Dilemma, performance and audio tours
20.00
Ieva Rižė, imagine GOAT talking V, performance
20.45
Musical performance, to be announced
22.30
Afterparty, details to be announced
Saturday 25 October
11.00–22.00
11.00-15.00
Rupert alumni studio visits, offsite
capacity very limited, registration required
11.00
Anastasia Sosunova
12.00
Julijonas Urbonas
13.00
Algirdas Jakas
15.00
Exhibition opens, Mindaugo 15
16.00
Justina Mykolaitytė and Agnė Semenovičiūtė, performance
16.30
New developments at Rupert
including presentations from Viktorija Šiaulytė and the Rupert team, Rupert’s shareholders, Jana Sofie Liebe and Augustinas Milkus, Ona Lozuraitytė and Petras Išora
19.00
Panel discussion one
Artistic initiatives under duress
Participants to be announced
20.00
Panel discussion two
Creativity and security
Participants to be announced
21.00
Nuova Orfeo, presentation and screening
Errore di gruppo (1973), Karma Film
We Had the Experience but Missed the Meaning (2014), Laida Lertxundi
Participants
Meriem Bennani, Nolan Oswald Dennis, Donna Marcus Duke, Toril Johannessen, Gosia Lehmann, Hanne Lippard, Justina Mykolaitytė and Agnė Semenovičiūtė, Nuova Orfeo (Stella Sideli, Beatrice Gibson, and Beatrice Zerbato; with Karma Film/Patrizia Vicinelli and Laida Lertxundi), Ieva Rižė, Ona Lozuraitytė and Petras Išora, Lukas Mykolaitis, Jana Sofie Liebe and Augustinas Milkus, and others to be announced shortly.