XII Baltic Triennial, CAC Vilnius (2015)

XII Baltic Triennial at Contemporary Art Centre
September 29, 2015

Artists in the exhibition: Wojciech Bąkowski, The Baltic Pavilion, Nick Bastis and Darius Mikšys, Brud, Goda Budvytytė and Viktorija Rybakova, Kipras Dubauskas, gerlach en koop, Kaspars Groševs and Ieva Kraule, Lukasz Jastrubczak, Erki Kasemets, Antanas Gerlikas, Mikko Kuorinki, Marcos Lutyens, Gizela Mickiewicz, Robertas Narkus, The Oceans Academy of Arts, Gerda Paliušytė, The World in Which We Occur (Margarida Mendes and Jennifer Teets), Mark Raidpere, Zofia Rydet, Bianka Rolando, Vitalijus Strigunkovas, Jay Tan, Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonai

WHAT IS AN ARTWORK TODAY CAN BE SOMETHING ELSE ENTIRELY TOMORROW – this sentence, picked out from an interview with the artist David Bernstein, is at the very heart of the forthcoming Baltic Triennial. The idea is not new: how we perceive an artwork and what we expect of it changes in time. Things get forgotten, switched around and we end up looking at the wrong end of a musical instrument or playing a painting back to front. Sometimes, however, that’s on purpose: a composition decomposes, a song becomes a mood, a sculpture – a model, and a drawing – a letter. Are we then to talk about uses of art or rather about the art of uses? Or better skip art at all? Well, let’s find out.

“Learning Not to Learn” consists of hand-drawn diagrams made on existing museum walls and found dusty panels, developed during the creation of "Course in Lying" and "Course in Doubt" for CAC Vilnius as part of the XII Baltic Triennial educational programme.