Posts Tagged “identity”

Theses

1 Economic subculturalization presupposes development of separate symbolical worlds: new ethnical (like Afro-Americans, Afro - Spain, Islam - France, Polish-Irish etc), new religions (European movements of Buddhism, European Hinduism, new Native, New Age), subcultures (football and basketball funs, punks, bikers, Hard cores … new hippies, nerds, Goths, Emo, Yapies….), styles of life (night clubs, subculture of games …), world network of different NGO, resistance civic movements (Greenpeace, Antiglobalists, New leftists), new gender movements, local communities and so on. Economy produces, supports and reproduces signs, symbols, images, spectacles, language games and means of communication for all these new worlds.

2 Development of subcultural economy and growth of variety of symbolical worlds develop new identities and demands for subject. Effective subject of heterogeneous world is transgressive one. Transgressiveness is constant changes of main characteristic of subject and he is participant of different institutional relations, language games, traditions.

3 Transgressivity presupposes soft identity and possibilities for development and changing of their identity from time to time. Especially it is important for PC game funs. Every game develops non ideological, pure artificial identity for the period of game.

4 The same is in the sphere of European and World project activity. Many of scientists like computer gamers participate in few local and international projects with different symbolical needs for identifications. Project activity develops cooperative skills and positive attitude to the heterogeneity. Heterogeneity means that people with different knowledge, skills, characters, ages, races, tastes of life could work for the time in one effective and competitive team.

5 The modern heterogeneity is dynamics and always in the process and depends on creativity and actions of participants.

6 For the such activities they need examples and impressive models. The transgressive subject of dynamics heterogeneous group needs models for individuation and socialization and the modern creative industries try to supply them.

7 The example of such model could be movies and cartoons like The Mask, the X-men. The Mask shows possibilities for changing of character for the time needs and the X-men show possibilities for changing of body identities included sexual identity.

8 G. Debord and J. Baudrillard criticized the society of spectacle and the economy of signs and simulacrums. However the question is how to think, behaviour and to live in this artificial world, in the migration of reality. The main question for modern young people is the question of effectiveness of productive activity in the dynamic, artificial heterogeneous symbolical worlds. And the different PC games, spectacles, styles of life some time could partly answer to this question and even better than apocalyptic critics.

“The grove of Anyksciai” (“Anyksciu silelis”)

The video, that will be shown in the exhibiton, is based on a classical work of Lithuanian poetry, the poem “The forest of Anyksciai” by A. Baranauskas written in 1858. The forest is a frequent theme in Lithuanian literature and an still an important part of the national identity. Dealing with a poetry sphere on a video level, P.G. creates an image of a shifting, migrating forest. P.Gilyte integrates the emigrants voices and bodies (also her own body) as resources, to let them appear in slightly modified combinations. A. Baranauskas praised the emotional attitude of country people who preserved their native language. Paradoxically his poem has been translated into several foreign languages and functions as a global source of exceptional societal substance. It’s not a question of attitudes, which can be preserved in our contemporary context which is central in the video work, more interestingly , that the video languagage has become highly universal and can be visually read and interpreted without any translation and explanation. It aims to continue keeping the same eternal circle of nature.

“The video works by Patricija Gilyte are created as performances for camera, mostly out of doors without an audience. Nature serves as an extension of her studio, with endless space. The features of the landscape and above all the seasons influence the resulting forms. The central theme of her work is the human body in its interaction with nature. A typical example is her work entitled “Corvidae” in which an oak tree is populated with mysterious people wearing dark-coloured clothes. Like crows, they perch in the branches and seem to form a unity with the tree. But when you look more closely, you realise that each one is a cloned image of the artist.” (by Cornelia Gockel)

The works are highly metaphoric. The materials used are soft, protective, insulating (plastic foam, blankets, overcoats, rucksacks). There is often a crossover between sculpture and video projection, with selected formal elements of the videos being displayed as sculptures in the exhibition room.

 www.patricija-gilyte.net

In the summer of 2007 the “Migrating Birds” project started in Vente, Lithuania.

This project began with a workshop in which 16 Lithuanian artists of different disciplines participated, 8 of them work and live in Lithuania the other 8 work and live in various European countries.

The main goals of this first “Conference” were,

• To exchange creative and more existential experiences and information between artists still living in Lithuania and those that have migrated

• To stimulate discussion on subjects like

  • Lithuanian Identity,

  • Emigration

  • the relationship there is with your countries Identity and your work when you have migrated.

• To create co-operative Projects on the outcome of these discussions to be shown in Lithuania and other countries.

This project is financially supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania, the Lithuania Institute and the Silute Regional Council.

The participants: Bernardas Bagdanavičius (Portugal, England), Darius Laumenis (France), Mindaugas Gapševičius (Germany), Jonas Zagorskas (Poland), Linas Domarackas (Poland), Rasa Alksnytė (Belgium), Lina Kusaitė (Belgium), Bernadeta Levulė (Germany), Jolanta Rimkutė (Lithuania), Audrius Mickevičiumi (Lithuania), Artūras Valiauga (Lithuania), Artūras Šimonis (Lithuania), Beatriče Laurinkutė (Lithuania), Ovidijus Petkevičius (Lithuania), Gitana Gugevičiūtė (Lithuania), Darius Vaičekauskas (Lithuania).

www.migruojantyspauksciai.lt

Rasa Alksnyte was born in 1975 in Kaunas, Lithuania.
1995 she’s graduated from Marijampole pedagogical College, as Primary school teacher.
Two following years studied in Vilnius conservatory, dance department and one year in Contemporary dance school P.A.R.T.S. in Brussels.
From 1990 Rasa Alksnyte participated in many dance performances of various choreographers.
She has worked with A. Nagineviciute, B. Baneviciute,J. Valenti, R. Maldom, P. Frenac…
As well in 1996 she started her own career as choreographer by creating few dance Miniatures for the New Baltic Dance Festival in Vilnius.
In 1998 she’s joined the butoh dance company ARIADONE in France led by K. Ikeda.
In the year 2000 Rasa Alksnyte established her own dance company ZANZI in Brussels.
Since she’s created number of dance performances, shown in Belgium, Lithuania and other countries.
From 2003 she is in the core team of new media laboratory FOAM in Brussels, for whom she created many food performances.