Valentinas Klimašauskas
Bio
Books & Other Texts
RECENT
I DeepDream of Strangers (in Quarantine), Blok magazine. 2020
Peaceful Resistance and the Power of Poetic Dissent. Conversation with cultural workers of Belarus – Lena Prents, Olia Sosnovskaya and Antonina Stebur about the recent events in Belarus. Blok magazine. 2020
A conversation with Alexandra Pirici about rethinking the public memory and monuments. Echo Gone Wrong. 2020
BOOKS
Oh, My Darling & Other Rants, published by the Baltic Notebooks of Anthony Blunt, Vilnius. 2018
According to the author, “autocorrection, street performers, earworms and migration are to be blamed for the inception of this textile. The person who invented autocorrection should go to hello. This is how I moved to Münster instead of Munich. You almost know the whole story now.”
Design by Gailė Pranckūnaitė.
Download the PDF: Oh, My Darling & Other Rants
B and/or an Exhibition Guide In Search Of Its Exhibition, Torpedo Press, Oslo, 2014, contains written exhibitions that float in time and space with or within a joke, one’s mind, Voyager 1, Chauvet Cave or inside the novel 2666 by Roberto Bolaño.
Download the pdf: B and/or an Exhibition Guide In Search Of Its Exhibition
SELECTED WRITINGS
Safeporting, an exhibition text for Santa France, Kim? CAC, Riga. 2019. Download the PDF: SAFEPORTING
Texting on the Opening Night, the annual anthology of Lithuanian Photographers Union, Vilnius. 2018
Download the PDF: Texting on the Opening Night
How a Peasant Tricked a Devil. Notes for New Cosmogonies. Published by Echo Gone Wrong and Videobrasil: A Multiple Community (Ed. Joao Laia). 2018
Online version: How a Peasant Tricked a Devil
Amazonka is a feminist sci-fi satire novel set in the near future city of Amazonka after some unknown forthcoming cataclysm. Part of News From Elsewhere, Obieg, Issue No 9, edited by Krzysztof Gutfrański and Vitalij Strigunkov. Produced and published by Obieg and Ujazdowski Castle Centre for Contemporary Art Obieg, Warsawa. 2018
The link: Amazonka.
Searching for the plotline as if for a familiar face. From Video masks. Translated from Lithuanian by Monika Kalinauskaitė. Published by Žeimiai Manor House. 2018
Download the PDF: Searching for the plotline as if for a familiar face
Texting on the opening night and Fountain published at Ghost Bag PDF book by Laura Kaminskaitė. 2018
Download the PDF: Ghost Bag
Cube Fatigue. Spike Art Quarterly, Issue 52 Summer 2017
Download the PDF: Cube Fatigue
Fountain. Text written as the PR for Olli Keranen’s solo show FOUNTAIN, 5.3.–23.4.2017, SIC, Helsinki. 2017
Download the PDF: Fountain
Harvesting patterns of your life or a self-portrait from the perspective of a failure or a drone, hovering above for Imaginary Reader, Ed. Marie Nerland by Volt, Bergen, 2016
Download the PDF: Harvesting patterns of your life
How To Clone A Mammoth (In Three Voices And With A Fisherman’s Exaggeration) is a reading afternoon on the poetics of de-extinction in the economy of clicks that premiered at Radio Athènes, Athens, 2015, and later was performed at the De Appel, Amsterdam, the RCA, London, Temporary Gallery, Cologne, HIAP, Helsinki, Mount Analogue, Stockholm, Brud, Warsaw, the Baltic Triennial, the CAC Vilnius and Kim? Contemporary Art Center, Riga. Using the structure of traditional Lithuanian polyphonic songs, the reading unites fragments, poems, quotes, stories about new friendships (as a metaphor for an old internet), on the importance of becoming Neanderthals, why Gertrude Stein would not pass the Turing test, the AI of language, and other random companies of post-humanist assemblages.
Download the PDF: How To Clone A Mammoth (In Three Voices And With A Fisherman’s Exaggeration). 2015
Gertrude Stein would not pass the Turing test for Nocturnal News Good Times and Nocturnal News #3 edited by Carl Palm and Eglė Kulbokaitė. Presented at Overgaden, Trust exhibition, curated by Sonia Dermience.
Download the PDF: Gertrude Stein would not pass the Turing test. 2014
What’s on your mind? text for Loop de Loop show by Iza Tarasewicz at Bikini, Lyon, FR.
Download the PDF: Whats on your mind? 2014
Every sentence is a symposium. The CAC Interviu magazine, On Crocodiles and Motors Issue, the CAC Vilnius.
Download the PDF: Every sentence is a symposium. 2014
Cadavere Quotidiano. A daily mourning book project. Published by Project X Foundation for Art & Criticism. Edited by Shana Lutker. 2013
Spectator’s letter for Footnotes. Every Artwork as Different Entry to the Same Show, CAC Vilnius, LT. Download the PDF: Spectators letter, in Lithuanian and English. 2013
An Exhibition in Futura, “A Clock That Runs on Mud” project, Nero magazine. 2012
MORE OR LESS, A FEW POCKET UNIVERSES, HIAP, Helsinki. Download an exhibition guide More or Less. 2011
Standard Length of a Miracle, a text for Goldin+Senneby solo, the CAC, Vilnius. 2011
“If you do know that here is one hand…,” the CAC, Vilnius. Download the exhibition catalog: If you do know that here is one hand & If you know that here is one hand 2. 2010
An interview with Darius Mikšys about the artist’s childhood for the Lithuanian Pavilion at the 55th International Art Exhibition de la Biennale di Venezia. 2009
For the First and the Second Time, the CAC, Vilnius. Download the exhibition catalog: For the First and the Second Time. With Virginija Januškevičiūtė. 2008