Inhabiting the Satellite. Day and Night (2015)
Satellite Affects and Other Lines of Flight, DISTRICT Berlin
Continuing their performative engagement with the cosmonautic vanishing points of socialist and post-socialist imaginaries, the anonymous artist collective Cooltūristės, which was founded in Vilnius in 2005, created two new works on the occasion of Satellite Affects. Their video performance Space Walk (2015) emerges against the backdrop of the world’s only Museum of Ethnocosmology, which was built in Kulionys in 1990, the year of Lithuanian independence. Through a video circuit Space Walk opens connectivity between the exhibition space and the studio of the grant artists called ‘Satellite’. With the installation Inhabinting the Satellite. Day and Night (2015) the studio itself has become the interior of a space capsule where laws of feminine weightlessness and transformative moments of life in the cosmos of art intersect. Outer space for Cooltūristės seems to lie somewhere between the futures of the past and a time to come, in which the encounters with the infinite expansion of the unknown happen beyond the logics of conquest.
Susanne Husse
Satellite Affects and Other Lines of Flight, DISTRICT Berlin
Continuing their performative engagement with the cosmonautic vanishing points of socialist and post-socialist imaginaries, the anonymous artist collective Cooltūristės, which was founded in Vilnius in 2005, created two new works on the occasion of Satellite Affects. Their video performance Space Walk (2015) emerges against the backdrop of the world’s only Museum of Ethnocosmology, which was built in Kulionys in 1990, the year of Lithuanian independence. Through a video circuit Space Walk opens connectivity between the exhibition space and the studio of the grant artists called ‘Satellite’. With the installation Inhabinting the Satellite. Day and Night (2015) the studio itself has become the interior of a space capsule where laws of feminine weightlessness and transformative moments of life in the cosmos of art intersect. Outer space for Cooltūristės seems to lie somewhere between the futures of the past and a time to come, in which the encounters with the infinite expansion of the unknown happen beyond the logics of conquest.
Susanne Husse