Iznācis žurnāls "CAC Interviu" Viļņā Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius We are happy to announce the new issue of CAC Interviu, in large part dedicated to the exhibition ‘Lithuanian Art 2000-2010: Ten Years’. It could be said, that the exhibition, which took place at the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius in the autumn 2010, and doubts and criticism that followed its opening, have proved the notion that survey and thematic exhibitions present as many (or, perhaps, even more) questions than answers or interpretations.
CAC Interviu
Issue 16-17 2010/2011
Much has been said and written about national exhibitions and other strategies of defining and positioning art. But the fact that these exhibitions are still around, and that the discussions and criticisms around them continue to stir up local and international art communities pushes forward a thought that perhaps this topic is not yet exhausted and there is still more to converse about. Thus, in this case the ‘Lithuanian Art’ exhibition provides a pretext and an occasion to propose a few subjects for a conversation and to return to the ‘uncomfortable’ problematics of representational exhibitions once more.
In this CAC Interviu issue:
Austėja Čepauskaitė and Tautvydas Bajarkevičius discuss the functions and problematic nature of representative exhibitions;
Skaidra Trilupaitytė and Agnė Narušytė talk about the writing of art histories;
Eglė Obcarskaitė interviews Maria Lind about art contexts, curators and mediation;
Gemma Lloyd’s interview with Anthony Downey that reflects on geocentrically constructed exhibitions and aesthetics and ethics in contemporary art;
Auridas Gajauskas and Jonas Žakaitis talk about the corner that ‘is not yet’;
Artists of the exhibition answer the question ‘Which artwork was missing from the exhibition “Lithuanian Art”?’;
Extracts from ‘Artists’ Parents Meeting’ (Darius Mikšys), that took place in Vilnius, in autumn 2010, are published for the first time;
Review of the Lithuanian translation (kitos knygos, 2010) of Slavoj Žižek’s Welcome to the Desert of the Real (Viktoras Bachmetjevas)
Free copies of CAC Interviu can be picked up at the CAC front desk or in the CAC Reading Room. It can also be read online at www.cac.lt.