The event series under the title BCC: Curators Go to The Bar 90+ attempts to confront the themes of post-internet aesthetics and post-digital condition. The project refers to 89+, the platform by Hans Ulrich-Obrist and Simon Castets, for which so called "post-internet" producers were invited to reflect on the new sensibilities of art production in the digital age.
The event series under the title BCC: Curators Go to The Bar 90+attempts to confront the themes of post-internet aestheticsand post-digital condition.The project refers to89+, the platform by Hans Ulrich-Obrist and Simon Castets, for which so called "post-internet" producers were invited to reflect on the new sensibilities of art production in the digital age. The BCC project aims to discuss such questions as: is there a new paradigm in technologies that affects and constitutes the different way of thinking, seeing, consuming and working? How does "post-internet" art reflect on distribution and frame it? What is "post-internet" and what comes under its umbrella? Be it post-humanism, fragmentation, acceleration, disembodied life, post-institutionalism or other strands of thinking and producing, they still come together under one spell of the inevitable speed of distribution.
For the project phase in VilniusBCC: Curators Go to The Bar 90+has designed a four-partite programme involving artists, curators and writers from Denmark, Latvia, Lithuania, United Kingdom, South-Korea and elsewhere. The programme has been prepared in collaboration with other institutions in Vilnius - Rupert, Contemporary Art Centre, National Gallery of Art and Vilnius Academy of Arts. During the event at the Nationgal Gallery of Art the online Reader of the project will be launched, representing contributions byPakui Hardware, Rózsa Zita Farkas, Rory Rowan, Eoghan Ryan, Hannah Heilmann and Justė Kostikovaitė.
Program
March 2015- In collaboration with Rupert, the centre for art and education in Vilnius BCC presents two residents, artists Eoghan Ryan (IE) and Eltons Kūns (LV) who have been selected through an open call to spend 2 weeks at Rupert's premises and work on their projects.
March 11 - 15, daily screenings till 6 pm - Hyperlinks or it didn't happen, a screening program at Contemporary Art Centre cinema, Vilnius. Featuring artists: Autoitalia, Cecile B Evans, Jaakko Pallasvuo & Anni Puolakka, Agnieszka Polska, Daniel Schanken, Viktor Timofeev, Amalia Ulman among others.
Opening on March 11, 6 pm.
Venue: Contemporary Art Centre, Vokiečių 2, Vilnius
March 27, 5 - 8 pm - Public talks and conversations with Hannah Heilmann (DK), Rózsa Zita Farkas (UK) and Jaeyong Park (KR), moderated by BCC organizers Justė Kostikovaitė and Maija Rudovska.
Venue: National Gallery of Art, Konstitucijos Ave. 22, Vilnius
Program:
Introduction - 5:10-5:20 pm
5:30 - 6 pm
During her lecture Rózsa Zita Farkas will talk about the notion
and definition of post-internet art, curatorial and theoretical
interests, and in particular in reference to gallery Arcadia Missa.
She will comment on the text "Exhibitionism or Perhaps Rejection"
which she contributes with to the BCC: Curators Go To the Bar: 90+
reader.
6 - 6:30 pm
Skype lecture by Jaeyong Park will touch on Selfie Study
centre and technological advances that is the reason for the selfie
proliferation but takes year 1987as a turning point. In 1987
the massive demonstration took place, leading the establishment of
democracy. South Korea is the country that aggressively pushed the
information industry as it was escaping from the huge economic
crisis that had swept all Asia in 1997.
6:30 - 6:40 pm break
6:40 - 7:10 S
SANS SOUCI by Hannah Heilmann is a screening soiree gone lecture
performance. The internet has brought with it a wave of tentacle
and monster sex, often associated with rape fantasies. SANS SOUCI
asks if perhaps sex with the Other could, and has been, a place for
less boring power exchanges, and presents a band of strange video
bedfellows with live commentary and reading, and classical and
non-classical intercourses, and a death erection.
7:10 - 7:40 pm
Presentation of the online reader + panel talk
March 28, 12 am - Private workshop with selected participants lead
by the gallerist, curator and writer Rózsa Zita Farkas. RSVP to
Justė Kostikovaitė kostikovaite@gmail.com by 23rd March. Venue:
Department of the Master and PhD studies at Vilnius Academy of
Arts.
The project is partly supported by: Nordic Culture Point, The
Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture; Danish Arts
Foundation International Research Programme. Partners: The
Lithuanian Culture Institute; Rupert; Contemporary Art Centre;
National Gallery of Art; Vilnius Academy of Arts.
More information:
www.blindcarboncopy.org
Curators:
Justė Kostikovaitė and Maija Rudovska
