Documentation | Wherever we are We are what is missing.

Another year of the Alternative Education Programme has reached its culmination!

Thank you for joining this two-day event, exclusively dedicated to sound, text and performance. On 28-29 November, the Composers’ House in Vilnius hosted two evenings, resonating with the notions of identity, memory, grief, addiction, upbeat tempos, cacophony, uncanniness, wealth, legacy, delusion—and hope.

The first print edition of Rupert Journal accompanied the event.

Rupert AEP 2024 participants: Samuel Barbier-Ficat, Donna Marcus Duke, Gabrielė Černiavskaja, Ieva Rižė, Ieva Gražytė, Markéta Slaná, Martyna Ratnik and Greta Štiormer.

This year’s programme was jointly led by Rupert’s curators JL Murtaugh and Goda Palekaitė.

Thank you, Rupert office and the final event team:

Coordinator: Aistė Frišmantaitė
Communication & Digital Content Manager: Aistė Marija Stankevičiūtė
Curatorial Assistant: Thierry Jasmin
Residency Assistant: Nathalie Chollet
Project manager: Augustė Verikaitė
Sound engineer: Arnas Tamulionis
Lighting design: Justas Bø
Installation: Matas Šatūnas
Photographers: Andrej Vasilenko, Lukas Mykolaits
Videographer: Alanas Gurinas
Music: Kamilė Krasauskaitė, dj sad cat
Hospitality: Draugų vardai
Graphic design: Marijn Degenaar
English Language Editor: Dovydas Laurinaitis
Lithuanian Language Editor: Evelina Zenkutė
Translator: Ieva Venskevičiūtė
Printer: KOPA Printing House

Special thanks to Mykolas Natalevičius, the Lithuanian Composers’ Union, Matilda, DJ sad cat, Deividas Katkus, Rugilė Kliaugaitė, freestyle manic, dodomundo, Vaidas Bartušas, Artūras Astrauskas, Ernestas Kaušylas, Evaldas Alekna, Nunilo Rumbutis, Sidas Martinavičius, Tomas Andrijauskas, Viktoras Urbaitis, Sponge Lab & Miki Ambrózy, Šiauliai drama theatre‘s archive, Contemporary Art Center, National Gallery of Art, Tech Zity.

Photo credits: Andrej Vasilenko.

Rupert’s activities are supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.

The Alternative Education Programme residency in Marseille was part of the Season of Lithuania in France 2024, funded by the Lithuanian Culture Institute and the French Institute.

The 2024 Alternative Education Programme’s Final Event ‘Wherever we are, We are what is missing’ is funded by Vilnius City Municipality.

It is part of New Perspectives for Action, a project by Re-Imagine Europe, co-funded by the European Union and Lithuanian Culture Institute.