Mindaugas Gapševičius

02.03.2022 – 06.03.2022
Installations — Talks
Projektraum Bethanien, Mariannenplatz 2, 10997 Berlin

BRAINtouch: embodiment presents a scientific-artistic perspective on how we can connect with our brains. Neuroscience-art overcomes the skull through electricity, biology, and sensory experience. Participants take on the role of researchers, experimenting and observing, to become immersed in the science of the brain. With avenues to make the brain ‘touchable’, what do we learn about ourselves?

Installation and the participatory event

21st January 2022 @ 17.00-21.00
Silent Green, Gerichtstraße 35, 13347 Berlin

Through live performances, screenings, installations, and many other artistic interventions, this opening event gives a small taste of what to expect for the Vorspiel 2022 program. Taking place at silent green in Wedding for the first time, the opening night will play out over Kuppelhalle, Betonhalle, transmediale studio, one of the Ateliers, and silent green’s beautiful garden.

As part of the Piksel festival ´Reboot me softly´. The festival features art pieces that deal with the post-pandemic state of mind we are in, in conflux with the altered state of planet earth.

Workshop:
Place: Bergen Dance Center, Georgernes Verft 12, 5011 Bergen
Time: Thursday 18th of November from 12-14h

Installation and participatory event:
Place: Kulturhuset I Bergen 2 / C. Sundts gaten 40, 5011 Bergen
Time: Thursday 18th of November from 18:30 – 22:00

Exhibition and speculative workshop series
Alt lab, Vitebsko 23, Vilnius and Online
September 8–12, 2021

Opening: Wednesday, September 8, 7 p.m.

Participants: Kamilė Krasauskaitė, Brigita Kasperaitė, Mindaugas Gapševičius, Andrew Gryf Paterson, Giulia Mattera, Becky Lyon

After our birth, bit by bit we get to know our mother, our father, and our surrounding environment. We learn what we can put in our mouths and what is understood to be inedible. We also get to know about other species that live in our surroundings. As we begin to go to school, we are trained to know that experiences are fictions, that organisms are composed of many cells, and that the molecules of said cells interact with molecules outside of them.

The Molten Airs exhibition and workshop series builds its narratives on casual life processes, repetitive habits, and social practices. By speculating on the human relationship to plants, food, or energy—but also by using methods borrowed from the sciences—the series delves into unknown interactions between small and large, real and fictional, alive and not alive, us and them.

By Indrė Liškauskaitė
Published by Echo Gone Wrong

Shortly before the participatory event You and I, You and Me at the Sapieha Palace in Vilnius,* I met the artists Mindaugas Gapševičius and Maria Safronova Wahlström, to talk about their latest collaboration, and their series of wearable objects to experience the environment through electricity.