TRANSACTION at documenta 11

TRANSACTION at Documenta 11 / Documenta Halle / Kassel / 2002

interviews, sessions, film and voice archive, website, box sign system / Documenta 11 / Documenta Halle / Kassel / 2002



Starting from the absence of female voices, Transaction consists of a collection of interviews, sessions, film and voice archive assembled by Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas. It creates a system of links with the fields of psychotherapy, gender, and oral history, with film and media archives, spaces, and websites. Transaction follows the model of a three-way dialog in a type of game format, tracing the movement between „what is no longer and what is not yet.” The project deals with the difficulty of coping with a new reality in Lithuania, suggesting a methodology of collaboration and exchange between feminists, film institutions, and psychiatrists to analyze a current scenario. Navigating through the territory of dispatches, Transaction unfolds to a kind of „unpacking” of closed off memories and voices.

  

  

  

  

Djembe Session_VOX_TRANSACTION archive / Documenta 11 / Hotel Reiss / Kassel / 2002

Friday, August 23, 2002, 9.00 p.m. to 6.00 a.m. /  Hotel Reiss / Kassel

Participants: Linas Rimsa, composer (Vilnius), Linas Paulauskis, Zydrunas Mockunas, Robertas Kancius, music theorists (Vilnius) Nomeda and Gediminas Urbonas + twelve volunteer djembe performers

  

  

Djembe Session_VOX_TRANSACTION archive introduces two young musicians, Linas Rimsa and Linas Paulauskis. The session recalls the utopian vision developed by Lithuanian researcher Pakstas in the 1930s to leave Lithuania as dangerous place situated between Germany and Russia and create a second Lithuania by moving to Africa. Although this vision never became reality, it serves as a reference in a sound piece by Lithuanians composers. Composer Linas Rimsa suggests this framework by re-animating the voice archive through a creative session. Inviting djembe performers to join with the TRANSACTION voice archive, Rimsa sets the dialogue between the voice and the drum. The computer keyboard is prepared as an instrument to navigate through the AVI samples of the voice archive. By introducing the logic of navigation, the composers invite the audience to join by playing with the archive samples.