Rupert AEP’s final exhibition 𝒹𝒾𝓈𝓂𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒹𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓂𝓈, 𝒹𝒾𝓈𝓇𝓊𝓅𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝓈𝑒𝒶𝓂𝓈

Rupert is pleased to invite you to the final exhibition of the Alternative Education Programme – 𝒹𝒾𝓈𝓂𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒹𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓂𝓈, 𝒹𝒾𝓈𝓇𝓊𝓅𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝓈𝑒𝒶𝓂𝓈 and it’s opening event.

𝓞𝓹𝓮𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰: 24 November 2023, 18:00
𝓔𝔁𝓱𝓲𝓫𝓲𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓭𝓪𝓽𝓮𝓼: 24 November–17 December 2023
𝓛𝓸𝓬𝓪𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷: Tech Zity Vilnius (Panerių st. 43, Vilnius)

𝓔𝔁𝓱𝓲𝓫𝓲𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓪𝓻𝓽𝓲𝓼𝓽𝓼:
Églantine Laprie-Sentenac, Eglė Ruibytė, Ella Jo Skinner, Kamilė Krasauskaitė, Lux Sauer, Rokas Vaičiulis, Steph Joyce, Will Krauland

𝓥𝓲𝓼𝓲𝓽𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓱𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓼:
Thursdays-Sundays at 17:00–20:00

Entrance to the exhibition is free. Entrance to the exhibition – pass through a metal gate, go straight ahead, turn left, go straight until you find a wooden door on your left. 

𝓔𝔁𝓱𝓲𝓫𝓲𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓽𝓸𝓾𝓻𝓼 𝔀𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓰𝓻𝓪𝓶𝓶𝓮’𝓼 𝓬𝓾𝓻𝓪𝓽𝓸𝓻:
–1 December, 18:00
–8 December, 18:00
–15 December, 18:00

˜”*°•FACEBOOK EVENT•°*”˜

𝓔𝔁𝓱𝓲𝓫𝓲𝓽𝓲𝓸𝓷 𝓸𝓹𝓮𝓷𝓲𝓷𝓰 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓰𝓻𝓪𝓶𝓶𝓮:
18:00 doors
18:45 Introduction
19:00 Rieko Whitfield (music performance) + Laina (visuals)
19:30 Angelware (DJ set)
20:30 exmantera (live vocal performance)
21:30 Matilda (DJ set)

˜”*°•Afterparty @ gallery1986•°*”˜

𝒹𝒾𝓈𝓂𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒹𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓂𝓈, 𝒹𝒾𝓈𝓇𝓊𝓅𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝓈𝑒𝒶𝓂𝓈 is the final show of the 11th edition of Rupert’s Alternative Education Programme (AEP). It is the closing chapter of a six-month-long learning process dotted with workshops, lectures, studio visits, crit sessions and other creative disruptions. Loosely guided by the theme of transgressions and traversability, the programme ends at the now-disused and previously publicly inaccessible administration building of the 𝓛𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓳𝓪 sewing factory. Eight new site-specific installations will briefly yet intensely transform the building before its inevitable demolition. A strong metaphor and symbolic gesture, best described by the words of one of the participants Rokas Vaičiulis: 

In 𝒹𝒾𝓈𝓂𝒶𝓃𝓉𝓁𝒾𝓃𝑔 𝒹𝓇𝑒𝒶𝓂𝓈, 𝒹𝒾𝓈𝓇𝓊𝓅𝓉𝑒𝒹 𝓈𝑒𝒶𝓂𝓈, the distribution of the space and its creative inhabitants is established through mutual detachments. Each crevice reaches towards its own world and pitches among the separated, vacant offices of the spacious former sewing factory’s bureau unit. Stretching through the three floors of the building, however, the crevices are no longer separated by the labor hierarchy or their spatial function; rather, they act as patchworks to be experienced while steering through atmospheres and dialects that echo the clusters of shared sensoriums and pursuits. Subtracted from the shades of blue-collar and the noise of fluorescent lights at maximum hum-buzz, each room invites an avid peek into the seamless pockets of processes and temporal wedges, a curious call to traverse through and into the ascending and descending structures, and imagine their interdependencies according to one’s own mental map.

For the opening on 24 November, the participants of AEP will be joined by invited guests – Rieko Whitfield, Laīna (Kerolaina Linkeviča), exmantera, Angelware and Matilda – for a night of performances, music and dancing at the iconic hall of 𝓛𝓮𝓵𝓲𝓳𝓪. 

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Curator: Tautvydas Urbelis
Coordinator: Rugilė Miliukaitė
Production manager: Eglė Kliučinskaitė
Assistant curators: Evita Mikalkėnaitė, Augustė Verikaitė, Keidi Jaakson, Sunna Dagsdóttir
Graphic design: Jonė Miškinytė
Communication: Karolina Augevičiūtė
Music programme co-programmer: Rokas Vaičiulis
Sound engineer: Antanas Dombrovskij
Light design: Justas Bø
Architectural advisor: Petras Išora
Technician: Matas Šatūnas
Translator: Paulius Balčytis
Copy editors: Jurij Dobriakov (EN), Evelina Zenkutė (LT)

𝓣𝓾𝓽𝓸𝓻𝓼 𝓸𝓯 𝓽𝓱𝓮 𝓹𝓻𝓸𝓰𝓻𝓪𝓶𝓶𝓮:
Aikas Žado Laboratory (Eglė Ambrasaitė and Domas Noreika), Anastasia Sosunova, Ayesha Hameed, Gary Zhexi Zhang, Jason Bahbak Mohaghegh, MELT (Ren Loren Britton & Iz Paehr), RadicalxChange (Matt Prewitt), Rieko Whitfield, Verpėjos (Laura Garbštienė), Zach Blas. 

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♥ Special thanks: Viktorija Šiaulytė, Darius Žakaitis, Linas Ramanauskas, Jurgita Seriakovienė, Robertas Narkus, JL Murtaugh, Povilas Gumbis.

Rupert’s activities are financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and European Union. This event is part of New Perspectives for Action. A project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union.

Supported by: Vilnius City Municipality, Tech Zity, Nordic Culture Point.

Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (EACEA). Neither the European Union nor EACEA can be held responsible for them.