13 November, 18:00

Continuing the Lineage programme, we invite you to a meeting with curator Raimundas Malašauskas. In the talk he will introduce a cast of characters from his artistic and curatorial practice: figures through whom thoughts, stories and ways of thinking travel, passing from one artist to another, and from one artwork to the next.

Raimundas will talk about:

Suzon – the barmaid in Édouard Manet’s painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergère, known only by her first name.
Soromimi – a character who never quite disappears, even after the book is closed.
Bucky Wonka – a character from the libretto Cellar Door, written together with Aaron Schuster for a work by Loris Gréaud.
Mardi – an almost-human inhabitant of Repetition Island (Centre Pompidou, 2010), recreated each day by a different writer or artist.
Ali Bi – the narrator of the text The Solitude of the Simultaneity, longing to be in several places and times at once.
Sam – an eighty-year-old writer from Peter Ustinov’s play Photo Finish, visited by a younger versions of himself.
Dixie Evans – the “Marilyn Monroe of burlesque”.
Edith Scob – the actress whose face is concealed by a mask in the film Eyes Without a Face.
Clifford Irving – the author of a forged autobiography of Howard Hughes.
John Fare – a performance artist who, according to accounts, disassembled himself piece by piece in front of an audience.
Horace Goldin – a Vilnius-born illusionist known for his trick in which a woman was sawn in half.

To open the conversation, a dream about Raimundas, recounted by Elena Narbutaitė:

“I have to tell you today, because it expires tomorrow.

Last night I dreamt that you were organising not an exhibition, but a whole series of gatherings, in about four different places at once. You also had two faces that you kept switching between. Everyone I met in that dream had incredible stories to tell, and all the conversations were fascinating. It seemed that the topics of one conversation would suggest the locations for other meetings.”

Programme Curator Monika Lipšic; Programme Coordinator Gabrielė Golubovičiūtė; Communications Coordinator Kornelija Žvinklytė.

The event and project are supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture, Vilnius City Municipality and Nordic Culture Point. Rupert’s partner is INVL Family Office.