The lecture of the Lithuanian curator Klimašauskas opens a new series Seminar of Accidental Wisdom

Join us for an online lecture presented by Valentinas Klimašauskas on Wednesday 19 May 2021, 7 pm. As part of the Seminar of Accidental Wisdom lecture series, the talk will live on Zoom, YouTube and Facebook Live. The audience will participate in a Q&A session following the lecture.

Seminar of Accidental Wisdom is a lecture series organized by the Film and TV School of the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague, Kunsthalle Bratislava, and lítost gallery, Prague. Within the scope of 11 lectures, invited curators, theoreticians, and artists will present their contributions to contemporary audiovisual forms, photography, and exhibition theory.

Valentinas Klimašauskas’ talk will focus on his curatorial engagement in the upcoming Baltic Triennial 14 titled The Endless Frontier. The Triennial will focus on the so-called former Eastern Europe and emphasise arts’ inscription in an expansive social landscape, mirroring current frictions between an assortment of endpoints and new beginnings. Klimašauskas will explain how the triennial will engage with a paradoxical time of fragmented integration, where conflicting ecologic, economic, and political agencies are enacted. Baltic Triennial 14 - Endless Frontier will be held at Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, 4 June-15 August 2021. The talk will be streaming live on Zoom, YouTube and Facebook Live. The audience may participate live in an online Q&A scheduled after the lecture. The talk will be held in English.

Valentinas Klimašauskas is a curator and writer. Together with João Laia he curates the 14th Baltic Triennial at CAC Vilnius (2021). With Inga Lāce he curated Saules Suns, a solo exhibition by Daiga Grantina for the Latvian Pavilion at the Venice Biennale (2019). Klimašauskas' previous engagements include Program Director at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre, Riga (2017/18), and a Curator at CAC, Vilnius (2003/13). Recent curated projects include “Pulse” by Alexandra Pirici, enlivenment of the Kaunas Ninth Fort Monument; “Microorganisms & Their Hosts”, a collaborative solo by Mindaugas Gapševičius at Atletika, Vilnius. “The Cave & the Garden” at Futura CCA, Prague, “Columnists” at Editorial, Vilnius (2019); “Portals or location scouting in Kaunas”, presented by Spike Art Quarterly (2017). He is the author of Oh, My Darling & Other Rants (The Baltic Notebooks of Anthony Blunt, 2018), Polygon (Six Chairs Books, 2018), and B (Torpedo Press, 2014).

Seminar of Accidental Wisdom has been kindly supported by the Ministry of Culture Czech Republic Arts Grant.

Facebook event
https://www.facebook.com/events/1434967893519373/

Zoom stream
https://bit.ly/3wcNZeg

Facebook Live stream
www.facebook.com/litost.gallery/videos

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Odkazy / Links

Baltic Triennial
http://cac.lt/en/exhibitions/future/9939

Valentinas Klimašauskas
http://selectedletters.lt/
https://instagram.com/valentinas_klimasauskas/

FAMU
https://www.famu.cz/

lítost
https://litost.gallery/

Kunsthalle Bratislava
https://kunsthallebratislava.sk/

18. May 2021