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High Limits

When faced with crisis, humanity looks for answers. For good or ill, invention grows in the wake of stagnation and contradiction, initiating a voyage to the unknowable. To the heavens, through hymns. Within the cards, amongst the leaves. In silicon, in science.

Our prior year’s cycle of meditation presented an extended opportunity to change our pace, reconsidering fundamental elements of life and practice. We did this by attempting an audacious and global answer when such plans appeared difficult. Together, we questioned whom and what we work toward when the corporeal experience becomes impossible, or at least impractical.

High Limits is Autarkia’s latest initiative, featuring new commissions from international artists, most of whom are engaging online space for the first time. More than a static exhibition with a fixed running time, High Limits is an ongoing platform to supplement Autarkia’s physical spaces. Its non-space will background a public programme of activities in the months following launch, remaining open for expansion with future artist interventions.

A project of Autarkia, organized by JL Murtaugh, Robertas Narkus

Commissions from Seecum Cheung, Cole Lu, Robertas Narkus, Ignas Pavliukevičius

Graphic design by Nerijus Rimkus, coordinated by Lukas Strolia.

High Limits is initiated in collaboration between Seecum Cheung, Cole Lu, Robertas Narkus, Ignas Pavliukevičius, Antanas Skucas, Mantas Talmantas, Emma Rae Bruml Norton, Jonas Narbutas, Joris Cižikas, Indrė Liutkutė, Laura Kaminskaitė.

Produced with the support of the Lithuanian Council for Culture

We are very grateful to our supporters, patreons and Monika Mačiulytė.

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Cole Lu / Bri Williams

Syndicate at NADA Miami 2020
a joint presentation with Et Al. in San Francisco and Vilnius
hosted by Autarkia
1 – 5 December 2020

The presentation consists of two exhibitions in both San Francisco, USA (at Et Al, Chinatown) and Vilnius, Lithuania (at Syndicate’s new space, hosted by Autarkia).

Building on the past collaborations between the galleries, the latest takes place in the context of a dislocated NADA Miami. A sharp contrast to the hub of activity hosted by the sea each winter, the participants are instead separated by thousands of miles, and seeing each portion live is impossible.

New sculptures by Cole Lu reframe the gap through the founding mythologies of interstellar travel, and Bri Williams’ works turn simultaneously inward half a world apart.

Cole Lu is an artist and writer originally from Taipei and based in New York. He previously collaborated with Syndicate for FAIR by NADA 2020; The Third Lie for Poppositions Brussels 2019, The Patio at Arcade Gallery, London; and a performance at NADA New York 2017. Upcoming projects include Autoitalia, London; Nir Altman, Munich; and Autarkia, Vilnius.

Bri Williams is an artist who works primarily in sculpture. Solo exhibitions include Murmurs, Los Angeles; Queer Thoughts, New York, and Interface, Oakland. Williams’ work has been presented in group exhibitions at Ochi Projects, Karma International, and Ramiken Crucible (all Los Angeles). Williams will have a solo show at Et al. in San Francisco in 2021.

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XVII a.

It happens you fail, fail, fail, fail and then suddenly you fail so big, then you fail, fail, fail, fail. Just can’t find it. The breakthroughs of political thought, culture or science strike at the darkest hours of humankind. So was the the XVII century, on the one hand it is an Age of Enlightenment, geographical discoveries, city development, on the other historians call this period “The big Crisis”—countries scatter, so did Lithuanian-Polish commonwealth, wars and plagues are raging, in this spree the consciousness of the city-dweller rises, new class is born, academies of science and art emerge and salons stage their first exhibitions.

Curators
Robertas Narkus, Laura Kaminskaitė

Participating artists
Neringa Černiauskaitė ir Ugnius Gelguda (Pakui Hardware), Eglė Kulbokaitė ir Dorota Gaweda (Young Girls Reading Group), Laura Kaminskaitė, Dalia Dūdėnaitė, Ona Juciūtė, Anastasija Sosunova, Beatričė Mockevičiūtė, Viktorija Damerell, Viltė Bražiūnaitė ir Tomas Sinkevičius, Monika Kalinauskaitė, Rūtenė Merkliopaitė, Gabrielė Adomaitytė, Ieva Rojūtė, Žygimantas Kudirka, Nerijus Rimkus, Indrė Šerpytytė, Neringa Vasiliauskaitė, Austėja Vilkaitytė, Monika Janulevičiūtė ir Antanas Lučiūnas, Emilė Skolevičiūtė, Patricija Jurkšaitytė, Jurga Barilaitė, Eglė Karpavičiūtė, Raimundas Malašauskas, Deimantas Narkevičius, Nomeda ir Gediminas Urbonai, Artūras Raila, Dainius Liškevičius, K. Bogdana(s), Gintautas Trimakas, Robertas Narkus, Antanas Gerlikas, Juozas Laivys, Gediminas G. Akstinas, Kazimieras Sližys, Jokūbas Čižikas, Donatas Jankauskas (Duonis), Žilvinas Landzbergas, Vytautas Viržbickas, Augustas Serapinas, Andrej Polukord, Vytenis Burokas, Ignas Krunglevičius, Paulius Petraitis, Vitalijus Strigunkovas, Kristijonas Naglis Zakaras, Rokas Valiauga, Rytis Urbanskas, Matas Janušonis, Kalendra, Egidijus ir Remigujus Praspaliauskai, Rokas Pralgauskas, Ugnė Straigytė, Gabrielė Gervickaitė, Mikko Kuorinki, Alex Bailey ir Krõõt Juurak, Kaspars Groševs, Nicholas Matranga and others.

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S>lamas

A poetry slam night in “Autarkia” in collaboration with e-journal “Abstract Stylist”.

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PALAIDUNAS

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Two year anniversary

This Friday we celebrate two years anniversary. Is that a moment to look backwards? What happened and what will happen next?

We would be very glad to see you from 22.00 for an evening program.

Best presents are your friendship and partners: we will celebrate together with “JCDecaux prize 2018: Dignity” at CAC exhibition participants and nominees. More than that: a special set from creative collective “Pinigų uostas”.

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Andrej Polukord “Pjauti grybą”/”To cut the mushroom”

“Today we were walking in the forest and found a lot of ‘šrotas’ (in Lithuanian slang, goes for scraps of metal parts) there was a some shooting range, someone was burning micro schemes… What would you say if we would make a mushroom sorting manufacture at yours? We announce an open call to collect and bring mushrooms, mushrooms that were found in the forest or in the city. I would go in the morning to fill the whole Golf (model of WV car), maybe I’ll invite friends to help me and then we bring everything to Autarkia.

Everyone brings the mushrooms before 22.00 we throw everything on the tables and start sorting out, clean them with some sort of swords. In two piles- mushrooms and metal pieces (bolts, hinges, tin cans, locks ant etc.) We sort and clean so to say. And we use knifes and swords from my collection” – from the conversation with Andrej Polukord

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July—September

Summer

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Young Boy Dancing Group “Aging Tour”

No future, no hope, nothing to loose. Young Boys Dance Group presents the enigmatic elegy of post-human dance in the candlelight.

best wishes,
Autarkia

The cataclysm of dance industry, apotheosis and catastrophe of digital culture, hypertonic institutional nightmare turning in to lethal pleasure. Fashion, body, sculpture and improvisations in the apocalyptic setting. Inhuman acrobatics and executed subconscious and spilled candles.

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16 December — 21 January (Autarkia at Kim? Contemporary Art Centre)

“The Guest”, a cabaret directed by Robertas Narkus and produced by Kim? and Autarkia.

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“The Guest” is a cabaret directed by Robertas Narkus & produced by Autarkia with contributions by Rainyr Askher, Gints Gabrāns, Kipras Garla, Antanas Gerlikas, Laura Kaminskaitė, Žygimantas Kudirka, Nerijus Rimkus, Antanas Skučas, and others.

“The Guest” cabaret invites you to reimagining the near future as promised by sci-fi entrepreneurs. Since the artificial intelligence took over solving the problems of the economy, philosophy, scientific progress and politics, since the clash of classes is over, all secretes of the universe are solved, everything is for free, produced at automatic factories, grown in self-sustainable farms, and delivered by soft six fingered hands. One looks around – everyone is an artist, designer, DJ, model, philosopher, startupper, plumber or visionary.