{"id":1815,"date":"2000-01-07T19:55:19","date_gmt":"2000-01-07T19:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/us\/?p=1815"},"modified":"2024-01-11T17:37:29","modified_gmt":"2024-01-11T17:37:29","slug":"transaction-2000-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nugu.lt\/?p=1815","title":{"rendered":"TRANSACTION, 2000-2004"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Transaction focuses on the search, development, and realization of a scripting process for an ongoing societal narrative that in the exhibition context charts relations between media, memory, politics, and traumatic identity within contemporary Lithuanian culture.

The Transaction project was provoked by an interview with the main psychiatrist of Lithuania published in a national magazine. Reflecting on the unease of the post-Soviet transition in the 1990s, the psychiatrist stated that Lithuania had adopted the attitude of a victim during this period. Following his proposal to deploy transactional analysis\u2014a method of therapy that analyses a victim scenario with a view to transformative effect\u2014the project addressed the national psyche\u2019s historical traumas by staging encounters with psychiatrists and women intellectuals, in collaboration with the gender studies department of the Central European University and the women\u2019s studies department at Vilnius University. The group discussed female role models in national mass media and compiled the references for their discussions in a system of exchanges. In this way, the project aimed at exploring the ways in which an artwork that draws on scientific modelling can render new tools for a pedagogy of identity formation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Starting from the absence of female voices, Transaction consisted of a collection of interviews, voice listening sessions, and a film and voice archive assembled by the artists. Using the model of a \u201cdrama triangle\u201d borrowed from psychoanalysis, the project was constructed in the form of a juxtaposition of three elements: an archive of films made between 1947 and 1997, a video with feminist intellectuals analyzing how Lithuanian films from the period scripted notions of femininity, a video of Lithuanian psychiatrists commenting on the \u201cscript\u201d of the victim.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Transaction followed the model of a three-way dialog in a type of game format, tracing the movement between \u201cwhat is no longer and what is not yet.\u201d The project dealt 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 the gendered territory of dispatches, Transaction unfolds into a kind of \u201cunpacking\u201d of closed-off memories and voices.
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Participants: Raimundas Alekna, Gra\u017eina Arlickait\u0117, R\u016bta Ba\u010diulyt\u0117, Daiva Budraityt\u0117, Au\u0161rin\u0117 Burneikien\u0117, Zita \u010cepait\u0117 , Solveiga Daugirdait\u0117, Viktorija Daujotyt\u0117, Patricija Droblyt\u0117, Karina Firkavi\u010di\u016bt\u0117, Jolanta Gelumbeckait\u0117, R\u016bta Go\u0161tautien\u0117, Erika Grigoravi\u010dien\u0117, Veronika Janatjeva, Margarita Jankauskait\u0117, Rasa Kalinauskait\u0117, Zita Kelmickait\u0117, Laima Kreivyt\u0117, Egl\u0117 Laumenskait\u0117, Dalia Marcinkevi\u010dien\u0117, Raimundas Mila\u0161i\u016bnas, Marija Au\u0161rin\u0117 Pavilionien\u0117, \u017divil\u0117 Pipinyt\u0117, Rima Praspaliauskien\u0117, Birut\u0117 Purvaneckait\u0117, Giedr\u0117 Purvaneckien\u0117, Dainius P\u016bras, Daiva Ra\u010di\u016bnait\u0117, Ugn\u0117 Siparien\u0117, Lolita Sutkaitien\u0117, Daiva \u0160abasevi\u010dien\u0117, Eugenijus \u0160arovas, Anel\u0117 Vosili\u016bt\u0117, Marta Vosili\u016bt\u0117,  Sonata \u017dalneravi\u010di\u016bt\u0117, Audron\u0117 \u017dukauskait\u0117
Special thanks: Division of Image and Sound Documents at the Lithuanian Central State Archive<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Transaction project was commissioned in 2000 by the Kunstinstituut Melly (formerly known as Witte de With) Contemporary Art Center in Rotterdam for the Strangers and Paradise exhibition curated by Bartomeu Mar\u00ed. It was further developed for the exhibition curated by D\u00f3ra Hegyi at the Ludwig Museum in Budapest (2001); an exhibition curated by Inka Schube at the Sprengel Museum Hannover (2002); and Documenta 11 curated by Okwui Enwezor (2002). It was presented at Manifesta 4 (2002), the MACBA Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art (2008), and the International Center of Photography in New York (2008).
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