TEXTS
ARE IN THE AIR
Kaunas Art Biennial '09, residency#29, 2009
Kaunas Art Biennial '09, residency#29, 2009
TEXTS
ARE IN THE AIR, a week-long interdisciplinary platform to explore how common
phonetics of textile and text play together. It was based on interaction and co-working.
Writers,
speakers, theorists, journalists or public viewers visiting the venue
gave the starting point to later creative chain working and
interpretation of real time action between textile artist, camera
men, other participants (they were openly invited to join free any
time in a process). All kind of fragmented texts appearing there in
the form of talks, readings, chats etc., were stitched with the
sewing machine and have got the body of physical fabric. Textile
processes were captured by cameras and translated directly to the
street on a big venue window screen, also TV set installation. Video
artists and programmers were involved to interpret a week long
action and make quick editing and codings of the material.
Project location had also cafe buffet and lounge for public to feel
friendly.
The
project was realized in 2009, when quite big recession of culture and economics touched the town.
Inspired
by the slogan Future is Now the project was supposed to create a
friendly, artsy, open space in a center of cold, criminal, depressive
city center. Format of the projects was a friendly ambient space
installed in the airy entrance space of Soviet Building, former
University. It was supposed to accumulate and generate city life in
real time, create together, enjoy it. Birth of ideas and minds and letting it go in the air - that was a purpose.
As
text and textile has this morphological commonness, TEXTS ARE IN THE
AIR tried to explore it and visualize in a social context.
The
project was orientated to the wide range of public – art public
figures, groups, pupils, all the citizens, guests of the city.
For one week we settled in empty ground floor lobby of University Vytautas Magnus
Watch video of building the place produced by paltv.
All over 500 photos by various authors are in uploaded on Flickr under the tag tekstaiyracia
All over 500 photos by various authors are in uploaded on Flickr under the tag tekstaiyracia
All photos from Flickr and texts from the blog generates visual code made by Matas Petrikas
And here's the blog of TYCIA (LT)
photos by: Kristina Cyziute, Arturas Morozovas, Inga Liksaite, Audrius Almantas, Matas Petrikas