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24/6/2004

Five exhibitions

Contemporary Art Centre - CAC, Vilnius

VI.25 - VIII.22
Ruta Remake
EMISIJA (ISSUE) 2004: Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas
installation

Voice Archive / Pattern / Sound / Architecture // Fashion/Headscarves/ Edition // Voice Lab

Voice Archive / Pattern / Sound / Architecture
Provoked by the notion of ''the absence of women's voices'', the Ruta Remake project works as a mapping device to redraw a traditional pattern, that concerns a politics of identity in the Lithuania of today. In this context, Ruta (rue) is a specific weaving pattern that refers to a perennial plant with a strong, heavy odor and a bitter taste; also known as the ''herb of grace''. Lithuanian patriarchal tradition has framed a space for the muting of women‘s voices; a space that understands the weaving as writing, followed by singing as a way of storytelling.
Writers, linguists, philosophers, music theorists, singers and activists joined the Ruta Remake project to investigate the role of the woman‘s voice as a territory between social contruction and metaphysical phenomena. Through the shared recollections of media they build a pathway to navigate from the past to the present. The Ruta pattern is selected to provide a system for a sound notation, a shuttle for composing the voice threads of the archive, as lines of information and as routes, joined in patterns unpacking relationships between voice and language. The weaving structure of the Ruta pattern instigates and controls the behaviour of the notation system that transforms the space into an informational model.

Fashion/Headscarves/ Edition
Ruta Remake remake in Vilnius introduces an element of fashion, which is developed in collaboration with a designer Sandra Straukaite. The outcome of this collaboration is a production of fabric that leads to a limited edition of fashion. The fabric design is based on a mix of a camouflage pattern and the Ruta pattern. This remake also produces multi-functional headscarves camouflaged in the way that does not hide the Ruta notation, but extends it, re-reading the traditional functions and connotations of this piece of clothing and opening a new possibility of playing ''from the headscarves.''

Voice Lab
The voice archive mixing lab in Vilnius is staged to build further Ruta Remake by inviting female music producers from younger generation. Otto Kraenzler, who developed the sound concept for Ruta Remake, is invited to feed the lab by commenting on the different ideas of mixing and demonstrating respective examples, Focus of the workshop is on the category of a mix, starting from pieces by John Cage like Cartridge Music, Rozart Mix or Fontana Mix and following the technological development through to the present situation with a variety of mixing and re-mixing concepts and techniques.


VI.25 - VIII.22
Repudiated Realities
EMISIJA (ISSUE) 2004: Evaldas Jansas
video installation

Evaldas Jansas presents the installation ''Sensibility Tester'' and three new video films, which are following:
Anthropology of Fake Documentation: Violence, 4:56 min., 2004
Anthropology of Abuse, 5 min., 2004
Family Video: Mother's Grandfather, 17:45 min., 2004

This year the Contemporary Art Centre presents a series of personal exhibitions called EMISIJA (ISSUE) 2004 (the term ''issue'' as used in the sphere of finance defines a specific identified issue of securities, usually grouped by the same initial sales date). The series of exhibitions introduces the most important Lithuanian artists who during the previous decade have constituted the new language of contemporary Lithuanian art, who have received the most attention from the critics, have participated in the most important contemporary art exhibitions in Lithuania and have represented Lithuania abroad numerous times and who, along with the Contemporary Art Centre, have created a basis for the development of the new generations of artists.
In 2004 the Contemporary Art Centre presents seven artists, but the series of personal exhibitions is planned to extend throughout the succeeding year. EMISIJA 2004 will be accompanied with a catalogue that will provide comprehensive introduction to the work of each of the participating artists.


VI.25 - VIII.22
Jaan Toomik
Video works

Jaan Toomik (born 1961) is one of the most prominent contemporary artists from Estonia. He began as a painter in the late 1980s, and received a wide recognition during the 1990s with site-specific installations and video works. The works by Jaan Toomik were shown at the most important exhibitions representing Eastern European and Baltic art, they were exhibited in many large international forums of contemporary art such as Manifesta I, Sao Paulo biennial and la biennale di Venezia to mention just few. They have been included in the programs of international video and short film festivals. Jaan Toomik has made solo exhibitions in New York, Stockholm, Helsinki, London and elsewhere, his name figures in the recent monographs on the late 20th century art.

Solo exhibition of Jaan Toomik at the Contemporary Art Centre consists of several large format video projections and a video films program. The exhibition is built up as a review on several years in the artist's activity in the field of video and presents both chrestomatic (''Peeter and Mart'', 2001-02) and the most recent work.

''No explanations could tune the reader in to Jaan Toomik's art. His works have the power to share the poetic vision of their author by themselves anyway. Art critics even tend to characterize them as hypnotic, to the extent that they disarm analyses. They inspire an immunity to words or a state of silence which is most frequently used topos in articles on Toomik /.../

Jaan Toomik uses repetitive structures to alter the state of consciousness of viewers, to make them more receptive step by step. His video installations are aimed at neutralizing ego and also often compensate the narcissistic character of video-medium. To achieve that he often submits himself and audience to the melody of chant, to the rules of landscape or to mechanic action''. (Hanno Soans)


VI.30 - VIII.22
Bridget Riley
A Print Retrospective 1962 – 2003
Organizer: British Council

Bridget Riley is one of Britain's best-known artists. Since the mid-1960s she has been celebrated for her distinctive, optically vibrant paintings which actively enlarge the viewer's sensations and perceptions, producing visual experiences that are complex and challenging, subtle and arresting.

Bridget Louise Riley was born in London where she attended Goldsmith's College and Royal College of Art. Awarded the International Prize for Painting at the Venice Biennale in 1968, she also holds honorary doctorates from the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. Since her first solo exhibition in London in 1962, Riley's work has been exhibited widely in Europe, Japan, and Australia.

This definitive survey of over 40 screen prints, selected by the artist, offers a rare opportunity to examine the preoccupations and development of Riley's involvement with this medium over the last four decades. Although known for her large, abstract paintings, in which optical effects are created through subtly shifting patterns; Bridget Riley has also produced prints throughout her career.

The exhibition begins with Riley's innovative black & white screen prints on plexiglass from the 1960's, in which she reflected the excitement and innovation of the decade by printing onto the reverse of this new, synthetic material. It then moves through her experiments during the 70s and 80s when she realized the potential of the medium to explore her arguments about colour relationships. The exhibition concludes with a print produced by Riley to coincide with her successful painting retrospective at Tate Britain last year and a recent large scale print (3m x 1m) based on wall drawings, in which she pushes the medium to its limits.

Technically innovative and visually striking, this body of work constitutes one of the finest contributions to the medium of screen printing achieved by a British artist in the late twentieth century.
This exhibition was originally initiated as a National Touring Exhibition organized by The Hayward Gallery, London for the Arts Council England and toured to UK venues throughout 2002/2003. The artist and her representative have offered the exhibition to the British Council for a limited 18 month tour.


VII.7 - VIII.22
''Ten Years of Non-institutional Activity''
Exhibition of Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists‘ Association
Curator: Deimantas Narkevicius


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