Designer Mindaugas Gavrilovas (Studio Cryo)
On November 28 at 7:30 p.m., you are cordially invited to join us at Meno Avilys’ Cinematheque for a talk by curator Rachael Rakes and a screening “Time Left Over From Time” curated with a writer and art historian Amelia Groom.
For this screening program, Rachael Rakes and Amelia Groom draw on their individual and collective research, writing, and artistic collaborations on the politics of time and duration.The selection of moving image works from the past half century is anchored in Robertas Verba’s Dreams of the Centenarians (1969), which broke with Soviet aesthetic rules for depicting strength, youth, and social cohesion, with its 100-year-old subjects baring witness to pre-revolutionary life and everything after through distinctive, often-dark humour.
Following this spirit of resistance, the program looks to works that honour sidelined imaginaries and the disjunctures of lives lived amid the impossibly demanding and destructive infrastructural present. Foregrounding vulnerability and strategies of slowness and repetition, these works employ unreliable narrators, deliberate obfuscations, and various techniques for the disordering of dominant temporality.
PROGRAM:
- Chronicles of a Lying Spirit (by Kelly Gabron), Cauleen Smith, 1992, 6 min
- Dreams of the Centenarians, Robertas Verba, 1969, 17 min
- CRIP TIME, Carolyn Lazard, 2018, 10 min
- Unimaginable Things, Henrikas Gulbinas, 1988, 6 min
- Untitled (A Momentation 4 Saul), 2019, Adam Farah-Saad, 2019, 3 min
- Being John Smith, John Smith, 2024, 27 min
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Rachael Rakes is a curator and writer from the U.S. living in the Netherlands and Greece. She was recently the Artistic Director of the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale, 2023, THIS, TOO, IS A MAP; Curator of Public Practice at BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht; and Head Curator and Manager of the Curatorial Programme at De Appel in Amsterdam. Currently, she is a selection committee member for the New York Film Festival, Editor at Large for Verso Books, a Contributing Editor for INFRASONICA, and a Committee Member of the New York Film Festival. With artists Laura Huertas Millán and Onyeka Igwe, she organizes the research initiative on alternative ethnographies Counter-Encounters, presented at Tate Modern, Stedelijk Museum, Centre Pompidou, and elsewhere. Rakes has organized dozens of exhibitions and programs internationally and teaches for Zine Eskola, Sandberg Institute, Leiden University, KASK, The New School, and Harvard University. Among other publications and journals, she is the editor of Toward the Not-Yet (BAK/MIT Press, 2022) and Practice Space (NAME/De Appel, 2020). She frequently publishes criticism and essays on art, media, and politics.
Amelia Groom is an Amsterdam-based writer and art historian. Groom completed a PhD in art history and theory at the University of Sydney and has since been a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Cultural Inquiry, Berlin, and the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen. Groom has recently published texts on topics including Mariah Carey’s refusal to acknowledge time; Sergei Eisenstein’s sex drawings; mud and decolonial ecologies; Scheherazade and the possibilities of “oblique parrhesia”; and queer, feminist and antiracist practices of gossip and “grapevine epistemologies.” As part of the Afterall One Work series, Groom published a book on the Marsh Ruins (1981), a swampy environmental sculpture by the artist Beverly Buchanan, who made secretive and ruinous monuments to Black history in the Deep South. Groom co-edited the online journal No Linear Fucking Time (published by BAK, basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht), and their research has often returned to questions of time: its undercurrents, its blockages and trickling detours, and the possibilities for its re-routing. Groom is currently working on a book that looks at the art and antifascist activism of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore through the lenses of queer and trans ecologies.
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This event is part of the Meno Avilys’ Cinematheque event series, curated by Ona Kotryna Dikavičiūtė and Gerda Paliušytė.
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Organizers: Meno Avilys
Sponsors: Lithuanian Council for Culture, Vilnius City Municipality, Lithuanian Film Centre