Winter 2007
new edition of CAC INTERVIU
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CAC INTERVIU the quarterly conversation about art is a bilingual (Lithuanian & English) interview based publication also containing editorials, book reviews, and an artists project focused on covering the Baltic region with a view to topical events that impact on art produced internationally. Distributed via direct mail and available for free at partner institutions in major cities all over the world CAC Interviu is a leading source of information about art, cultural events, and cultural debate from post-soviet Europe (with a unique Lithuanian perspective). In concert with the acclaimed alternative broadcast project CAC TV recently screened at unitednationsplaza and appearing in The Best Surprise is No Surprise the journal aims to position the CAC at the forefront of institutional production, and keep art and writing produced in Lithuania in the international spotlight.
CAC is pleased to announce the release of issue # 6, in which we hone-in locally and engender debate about Lithuanian specific dilemmas that resonate for the broader eastern European region:
Andreas Gedin talks to Daniel Birnbaum about the opening of the new Portikus in Frankfurt. Firebrand Lithuanian artist Mindaugas Navakas aims trenchant critique at the state of pedagogy at the Vilnius Academy of Fine Arts (sounding a clarion for the situation of art-teaching in the post-soviet). Lars Bang Larsen talks to Lithuanian artist Arturas Raila about his recent solo project at Frankfurter Kunstverein. Giedrius Gulbinas and Gabor Rieder review international conferences recently held in Lithuania addressing the state of Eastern European art history. Two local artists talk with each other about performative provocations that were shut-down by the authorities, while Virginija Januskeviciute tracks a third public art provocation that got away scot-free. A discussion reviewing senior critic and art historian Alfonsas Andriuskevicius new book reveals concerns within Lithuanian professional art circles. And by way of this issues artist project Gintaras Didziapetris writes a love letter to Bethan Huws.
For information on back issues, including contributions from: Julieta Aranda, Joseph Backstein, Pierre Bismuth, Mika Hannula, Liam Gillick, Lars Bang Larsen, Dieter Lesage, Gabriel Lester, Raimundas Malasauskas, Jonas Mekas, Deimantas Narkevicius, Carsten Nicolai, Piotr Piotrowski, Nicolaus Schafhausen, Aaron Schuster, John Slyce, Grzegorsz Sowula, Bik Van der Pol, Lawrence Weiner, and Richard Wright
E: interviu@cac.lt
Next issue: April 2007
Winter 2007 Exhibition Program, Until 18 March: Pearl River City: contemporary art from South China
curated by: Tobias Berger
in association with Para-Site art space Hong Kong and Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden
Groupe Dunes: Variations_Vilnius
in association with: Contour/Passage and the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania Us, Them, and Some Out-Takes: young Lithuanian photographers
curated by: Renata Dubinskaite News:
Lithuanian Pavilion at the 52nd International Art Exhibition La Biennale di Venezia
Artists: Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas, www.nugu.lt
Project: Villa Lituania, www.villalituania.lt (coming soon)
Organizers: CAC, Vilnius (commissioner Simon Rees)
Principal funding: the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania
