李牧9.2作者: 李牧 时间: 2009-9-2 12:47
URBAN STORIES. Xth Baltic Triennial of International Art
Date: 25September - 8 November
Venue: Contemporary Art Centre (Vokiečių St. 2). Vilnius Districts – Pilaitė, Šeškinė, Naujininkai, Naujoji Vilnia, etc.
Curator: Ann Demeester (Director of De Appel Art Centre, Amsterdam), Kęstutis Kuizinas
Promoter: Contemporary Art Centre
Partners: OK Contemporary Art Centre, Linz (Austria) and Lund Kunsthalle (Sweden). International Triennial events will be hosted at the same time in all three partner cities. In each city the project will have its own theme and a separate programme of events.
www.urbanstories.lt
The Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius is excited to launch the X Baltic Triennial of International Art that will be presented in the national programme of "Vilnius – European Capital of Culture 2009".
Opening on Friday 25 September and on show until Sunday 22 November the X Baltic Triennial is the pinnacle contemporary art event of the Vilnius Culture Capital and the Contemporary Art Centre's exhibition calendar.
Titled Urban Stories and curated by Ms. Ann Demeester (director of De Appel, Amsterdam) with Mr. Kestutis Kuizinas (director of the CAC) the project is a multi-platform presentation that will occupy multiple spaces within Vilnius, includes a special website, a full-colour catalogue, and a special issue of CAC Interviu magazine. The major exhibition platform, to be staged at the CAC, Black Swans, True Tales and Private Truths is a dynamic and multi-media exposition in which many of the artists will present artworks that 'imagine Vilnius' from both an insiders and an outsiders perspective and address its status as one of Europe's most enigmatic cities. The exhibition will also present a range of international works representative of alternative urban experiences or idiomatic ways of being and operating in cities around the world. A second site-specific project titled Vilnius Coop (organised by Ms. Ula Tornau and Ms. Vera Lauf) is presented in an abandoned medical clinic on Vilnius' important promenade 'Gedimino prospektas'.
Since autumn 2008 artists have been travelling to Vilnius – from around the globe – to experience and make research about Vilnius and present their work or make performances for the CAC, Vilnius audience. And a number of these artists will be producing specially commissioned artworks for the Triennial. Curator Kestutis Kuizinas "is happy that we have been able to continue a tradition of bringing international artists to the CAC and to Vilnius for the purpose of making brand new works for the Triennial and our audience. We chose the theme of this years' event "urban stories" to specifically compliment and counteract the Vilnius culture capital year. Large festivals are always rich with 'official' and PR-inflected language and pictures about the place they are held; and it is our hope to add a measure of humour, reflexiveness, and even criticism to this stream of images and language about Vilnius – the dynamic and analytical qualities that are inherent to contemporary art".
The title of the exhibition Black Swans, True Tales and Private Truths reflects upon the fact that the Triennial is being staged in Vilnius during a time of crisis – the Black Swan referring to events that appear by complete surprise and have a major impact – and upon the idea that every image, reconstruction or evocation of a city contains a high degree of the ‘consciously false’. According to curator Ann Demeester; "Much has been made of novelist Jonathan Franzen's attempts to avoid cliché by writing blindfolded in the dark. This might be just what we have asked artists to do: produce – blindfolded in the dark – a response to Vilnius. This has generated a plethora of works that are based on a contemporary version of armchair travelling or idiosyncratic local research, works that offer parallel [hi]stories, based on a mixture of rumours and half-truths, hard facts and reliable information. Films, sculptures, performances and installations that offer, a phantasmagorical portrait of an existent city, to borrow from Laimonas Briedis' book Vilnius – City of Strangers (2008), or that examine a real place that seems as ‘illusionary’ as Disney’s town ‘Celebration’ or New York’s ‘Roosevelt Island. As a whole the exhibition will position Vilnius as both Everywheresville and Nowheresville, it will scrutinize the fictional character of real places and the reality of imaginary spaces”.作者: 酒童 时间: 2009-9-2 15:50 作者: 段林 时间: 2009-9-2 16:59 作者: 黑天才 时间: 2009-9-8 01:46
没有问题作者: 黑天才 时间: 2009-9-9 01:02
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