Screening of The Road Movie, a film by Gerda Paliušytė
Kunstraum hosts Airoom Artist Residency's screening of The Road Movie, a film by Lithuanian artist Gerda Paliušytė followed by a discussion with the artist. Date: Friday 17th June, 7pm. Address: Kunstraum, 21 Roscoe Street, London EC1Y 8PT
“The Road Movie (2015) is a partially scripted documentary that follows the members of rap duo ONYX on a day trip through Vilnius. Their 1993 hit Slam was among the first American rap songs to reach the country after its independence, and it became deeply rooted in local culture. The two African-American rappers walk around a city for which they are symbols of both pop stardom and social transformation – swaggering, amused and dramatically at odds with their surroundings. The film could be seen as a slapstick take on cultural history – both its reliance on stereotypes and its arbitrary nature. It could also be a melancholy portrait of a city 20 years after a unique moment in its past, asking which promises have been fulfilled and which have not.”
– Vincenzo Latronico, Frieze magazine, Issue 175, 2015
Credits
Casting: Sticky Fingaz and Fredro Starr; Camera: Audrius Kemezys; Editing: Gediminas G. Akstinas; Sound design: Julius Grigelionis; Music: Ulijona Odisarija and Bohren & de Club of Gore
Running time: 28min
The Road Movie is commissioned by XII Baltic Triennial, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius
Gerda Paliušytė (b. 1987) is a Lithuanian video artist and curator currently living in Amsterdam. From 2012-2015 together with Inesa Brasiske she initiated and curated The Gardens (www.thegardens.lt) – an exhibition space based in a Vilnius planetarium, dedicated to the presentation and dissemination of Lithuanian contemporary art. Her project more not yet – an ongoing series of exhibition documentaries – will be continued during her time in the Airoom residency in London. Her new film entitled A Desire For Things To Work maps the voices of phone sex workers in Amsterdam. In her work Paliušytė has been addressing the limits of different representational regimes that are dependent on predominant, yet mutable power structures and the flow of time.
Airoom is an artist residency inspired by 'Tinder Swinton', a character tired of Tindering but who is all about sleeping around in places visible to others. Airoom accommodates artists and curators in the empty room belonging to the curator.
Vilnius 2015 Airoom edition hosted Chosil Kill (NO/UK) in September (via Istambul and Kiev); London 2015 Airoom edition hosted curator Zane Onckule (LV) and artist & curator duo Dorota Gaweda (PL/CH) & Egle Kulbokaite (LT/CH). London 2016 Airoom edition is also hosting a sculptor Evila Vasiljeva (LV/NL). Vilnius 2016 edition is hosting filmmaker, activist and curator Nine Eglantine Yamamoto Masson (DE/FR/NL). Airoom is curated by Juste Kostikovaite and supported by Arts Council England and Lithuanian Culture Institute.
