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Rupert group exhibition: Other Rooms

02.10.2020 – 31.10.2020, Exhibitions

Rupert, Vilnius

Artist(s): Kah Bee Chow, Leah Clements, Milda Januševičiūtė, Renée Akitelek Mboya, Joshua Schwebel, Edward Thomasson, Romily Alice Walden

Curated by: Leah Clements, Kotryna Markevičiūtė, Yates Norton

Design: Nerijus Keblys and Mantas Rimkus

Gabrielė Marija Vasiliauskaitė, Ernesta Šimkutė

Architecture: Julija Reklaitė

In collaboration with: Kah Bee Chow, Leah Clements, Milda Januševičiūtė, Renée Akitelek Mboya, Joshua Schwebel, Edward Thomasson, Romily Alice Walden

Exhibition • Accessibility • Support Structures • Other Rooms

You can now visit Rupert’s exhibition, Other Rooms, virtually by following this link here:
players.cupix.com/p/jHCKMlub

Please see below instructions on how to navigate the virtual tour.

Choose either of the following two sections — ‘Kiti kambariai (Inside)’ / ‘Kiti kambariai (Outside)’ — to set your location. Click on the round yellow button for more information about the work. This will bring up a banner that includes hyperlinks. Click on them and you will be taken to Rupert’s website where you will have further information about the work in audio and text formats.

For artists who made films, there will be hyperlinks to Rupert’s YouTube channel. To see more pictures of the artwork, click on the yellow image icon. Additionally, you can use the arrows to walk around the exhibition space. For quick access to each work, you can press on the ‘highlights’ at the bottom of the screen.

Rupert group exhibition: Other Rooms

‘So this world that we imagine in this room, might be used to gain access to other rooms, to other worlds, previously unimaginable.’ 1

Treading softly downstairs to the friend who’s sneaking you out for the night / Bodily relief as the person you’re trying not to disappoint says ‘I know you’re wondering how to get through the day.’ / The feeling that the annoyed cry of a stranger further down the beach is also your own, as a gust of wind blows sand into your faces / The warmth left on a seat after someone leaves / How quickly the dust settles on the surface of your glass of water, which you give to your plants / Coming back to yourself in the small, hard acoustics of the toilet, suddenly quiet and separate from your friends / Waking up together somewhere safe.

Support structures extend in complex webs in which we are inextricably, helplessly tangled. These structures can be fragile, sometimes rough and awkward. Often, they are hardly-noticed gestures, feelings and atmospheres, like the texture of a blanket in a hospital that is soft to the touch or the sound of a voice that sustains a memory. They can emerge from our local environment and they are built from tiny details and with care, attention and tacit understandings. These structures of support form a kind of erratic vernacular architecture, woven together with stories that are gathered, shared and reconfigured. They might keep things going or nudge us toward repair and restoration. They can give us the capacity to imagine, daydream and hope when it feels as if there is little time, space or energy to do so.

At certain periods — like the one we are living in now — these webs of support and the care and work that builds them up may come into relief. Often, it is these moments that show us how to move out of the closed, dark room of individualism and competition into a vast web of interdependencies.

This exhibition brings together Rupert’s past residents and an alternative education participant through new work commissions and existing artworks. The exhibition is organised in collaboration with ‘Artists’ Association Gallery” and is connected with Rupert’s 2020 public programmes that are guided by practices of care and interdependence.

The exhibition was open from 2–31 October, 2020 at the Artists’ Association gallery, Vilnius and had the following event programme:

2 October, 17:00–21:00

Opening of the exhibition. From 19:30 you will be taken on a guided tour by artists Milda Januševičiūtė and Joshua Schwebel and curators Kotryna Markevičiūtė and Yates Norton.

5 October, 19:00

Eli Clare,‘Brilliant Imperfection Amidst the Pandemic’, online talk (streamed on Rupert’s Youtube page)

27 October, 19:00

Lisa Robertson,‘Geomantic Slumber’, online talk (streamed on Rupert’s Youtube page)

31 October, 18:00

Leah Clements, ‘Hyperbaric’, performance, Rupert, Vilnius
at the Artists’ Association gallery, Vokiečių str. 2, Vilnius.
Original iteration commissioned by Somerset House Studio, London, for ‘Hyperfunctional, Ultra Healthy’ (2020)

Footnotes
  1. Lana Wachowski, co-director and co-writer of The Matrix, in her acceptance speech for the ‘Visibility Award’ at the Human Rights Campaign awards in 2012, for using her public platform to foreground trans rights by speaking about her own experience.

Supported by: Rupert’s activities are supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture. Vilnius municipality, the exhibition is a part of the project ‘Who cares?’ co-funded by the Creative Europe Programme of the European Union.

 

Partners: Artists’ Association Gallery, Lithuanian Artists’ Association, Pakrantė

 

Special thanks to: Audrius Jankauskas, Carl Schwebel, Daavid Moertl, Eglė Trimailovaitė, Elas Ramanauskas, Ernesta Molotokienė, Ernesta Šimkutė, Gabrielė Labanauskaitė, Gabrielė Petkevičiūtė, Gintarė Jonaitytė, Harley Aussoleil, Ignė Narbutaitė, Mark Barker, Miša Skalskis, Lamų slėnis, Lithuanian National Opera and Ballet Theatre, National Gallery of Art, Simon Ward, Vilnius Tech Park

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