On August 15th, from 6 pm, join us for the event A Night of Ascending Numbers by the participants of SODAS 2123 Festivity Residency Programme Hildur Elísa Jónsdóttir, Kirsty Kross and Mattias Hellberg.
A Night of Ascending Numbers will reinterpret festival of Žolinė (the Virgin Mary’s ascension to heaven) and Old Lithuanian Rye Festival — Rugių šventė traditions, sampling rituals from practices of the past, present and future. The upcycling of these processes into this new event offers glimpses into magical possibilities and moments of togetherness. The evening will unfold in six stages:
18:00—Sea buckthorn spritz cocktails in the SODAS 2123 garden
18:20—Wreath-making in the meadow across Drujos Gatvė, next to the prison
19:00—Opening of the exhibition Ascending Numbers in the project space on the 2nd floor of SODAS 2123
19:30—Short concert inside the Ascending Numbers exhibition
20:00—Communal celebration in the SODAS 2123 bar Estafetė with karaoke and performances of ascending numbers
More about the artists:
Hildur Elísa Jónsdóttir is an artist, musician and composer interested in storytelling and creating engulfing experiences within spaces, often inspired by the mundanity of everyday life. Through a variety of media—performance, moving image, installation and music—Hildur Elísa critically employs normalised human behaviours and experiences, displacing them into an artistic context. By placing these mundane, everyday happenings in unconventional and absurd scenes, she aims to challenge the shared understanding of our heavily constructed social reality, reflecting on our ability to create new meaning and forge reality, always asking ‘why’ and ‘what if’.
Kirsty Kross is an eco-feminist artist based in Oslo, Norway, originally from Brisbane, Australia. Her practice spans performance, happenings, music, drawing and installation, focusing largely on human responses to the climate crisis and its associated economic, social and political effects. She engages audiences with these complex themes through dark and absurd interventions that not only comment on the attention economy but also disrupt and reconfigure social, public and/or institutional frameworks.
Mattias Hellberg’s artistic practice deals with historical research of ‘small stories’, meaning stories that in some sense can never become mainstream history. The artist often wants to rework these stories into forms that give them new life: as a party, musical, video or installation. Hellberg is interested in artistic forms that have something joyous and frivolous to them but can still convey important experiences and stories. He is interested in how art could be used to subvert and transform social forms and hierarchies, thus transforming the people interacting with them.
This event is funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture.
The SODAS 2123 Festivity Residency is organised by the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association. Residency curators: Aušra Vismantaitė-Silva, Monika Kalinauskaitė and Edvinas Grinkevičius. The activities of the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association are funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.
SODAS 2123’s activities are supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius city municipality.
