RAIMUNDAS MALASAUSKAS

Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art (SFSIA) is pleased to present the public lecture "In This Dream" by Raimundas Malašauskas.

Raimundas Malašauskas’ character has two palm tree palms. Often, you would read Rai's email closing: "easy." That had been plain-sailingly typed by the palms.

Rai thinks thinking is like what he eats: fungus. Rather than saying that Rai thinks about things, he's more passing by things. So I would re-phrase it as: he navigates thoughts in a way like a mycelium's network which tends to fork. People understand Rai’s practice performs a certain degree of post-socialist schizophrenia, but in the eyes of a Chinese, however, Rai is quite a-sociailistic. Soup, it is salty soup that he adores to drink. The grains of salt accumulated as Rai's works crystalizes different salt fields. Oo. o O. o Oo. If you do a crystal gazing, you see what I’m saying in the area where Rai's stomach is supposed to be. The sodium chloride forms a Spiral Jetty along the rhythmic ‘Os’. That actually leads us to understand why he walks so fast, extremely fast along the Amsterdam streets and canals that form concentric circles. I’ve once seen the helicopter documenting along the spiral range of a spiral jetty. One needs certain speed to convolute the thinking and chemical processes akin to the crystals of the Great Salt Lake. Malašauskas has co-written an opera libretto, co-produced a television show, served as an agent for dOCUMENTA (13), curated oO, the Lithuanian and Cyprus pavilions at the 55th Venice Biennale, and keeps occurring under hypnosis.

ABOUT SFSIA

Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art (SFSIA) is a nomadic, intensive summer academy with shifting programs in contemporary critical theory. SFSIA stresses an interdisciplinary approach to understanding the relationship between art and politics. The program consists of seminar-style lectures, deep readings, and workshops. An evening lecture program is free and open to the public. Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art was founded and is directed by Warren Neidich and is co-directed by Barry Schwabsky.