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VESSEL AS A JOURNAL

The ninth edition, edited by Defne Ayas (Senior Curator-at-Large at New York’s PERFORMA and the new director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven), explores the relationship between the production of reality and visual art performance, how performance shapes our understanding of politics, and vice versa. It also addresses questions of selfhood, desire, and camouflage in the twenty-first century, examining convergences and encryptions as they relate to matters of intimacy. Ultimately, this issue asks how artists connect with one another and with their immediate audiences amid tides of annihilation, and how they continue to sustain their nexus of ideas, hold fast to their core of artistic thinking, and remain committed to its manifestation on stage, most often, under the lights.

Guest Editor Defne Ayas
Editor Kotryna Lingienė
English Language Editor Gemma Lloyd
Issue Design Inga Navickaitė-Drąsutė

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Goda Palekaitė | Hallucinating Čiurlionis

Goda Palekaitė is an artist, writer and researcher working at the intersection of contemporary art, performance, artistic research, literature, and anthropology. Her practice revolves around projects exploring the politics of historical narratives, the agency of dreams and imagination, and social conditions of creativity. Her recent solo exhibitions have been held at Beursschouwburg in Brussels, Västerås Art Museum, Kunsthal Gent, Editorial in Vilnius, and Konstepidemin in Gothenburg. In recent years, her performances and installations have been presented at Whitechapel Gallery in London, BOZAR Brussels, Vartai Gallery in Vilnius, Tranzit Bratislava, The Biennale Architettura 2018 in Venice, Galerie Georg Kargl in Vienna, Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, Kanal–Centre Pompidou in Brussels, among others. In 2020 she published the book of fiction, Schismatics (Lapas books). She is currently the curator of the Alternative Education Programme at Rupert, Vilnius. Palekaitė holds a BFA in fine arts, an MA in social and cultural anthropology, a Post-Master in artistic research and is soon to defend a PhD at Hasselt University.

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This article appears in full in ESCAPE AS A JOURNAL, NO. 8.
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