Artists' Parents MeetingDarius Miksys
| Nov ’09 |
| 21 |
| 2:00 pm |
Where do artists come from? Is it a matter of choice to become an artist, or do some predefined qualities make it inescapable? Are there some particular features in a person’s surroundings that make him or her an artist? Do people make artists believe that they are artists, or do artists make people believe the same? When does a person begin being an artist? Is it possible that life and career choices induce or inhibit the formation of an artist? This and more will be discussed at Miksys’s “artists’ parents meeting” for Performa 09, the third in a series of such events presented by Miksys.
Darius Miksys lives and works in Vilnius, Lithuania. He has participated in many different projects among them “PR 04” in Puerto Rico, the 16th Biennale of Sydney and the 9th Lyon Biennial. His projects vary from a video documentation of a visit to the Parapsychology Fair at the Vilnius Sports’ Palace to organizing of artists’ parents meetings, selling an empty bottle of perfume on e-bay, procrastinating lecture ”On Procrastinating”, proposing an ABBA museum in Qantas plane for Tempelhof airport in Berlin and establishing Abdul Aziz’s Holiday Cricket Club.
Link here for an article by Raimundas Malasauskas on this project, published in Metropolis M.
Curated by Raimundas Malasauskas. Co-presented by Performa and e-flux.
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