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* as a Journal is a fresh semi-annual outlook of the contemporary cultural movements and a tribute to artists co-creating in Lithuania and beyond.

Each magazine issue is dedicated to a specific topic and explored by different guest curators.

04/05/2026

SPIRIT AS A JOURNAL

Spirit as a Journal traverses various notions of the spirit: spirit as the opposite of physical reality, as the true self, vibe, charisma, attitude, or mood; spirit as a holy and/or outsider ghost. Feminist ecologies, devotion and queerness, the divine within the casual, and timeless archeologies are among the topics that will be explored by a constellation of contributing artists, researchers, poets, scholars, and writers. Shepherding this flock is guest editor Vaiva Grainytė – writer, playwright and poet, librettist and co-author of the Golden Lion-winning opera-performance Sun and Sea at the Venice Biennale (2019).

Guest Editor Vaiva Grainytė
Editor Kotryna Lingienė
English Language Editor Gemma Lloyd
Issue Design Laura Varžgalytė

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24/03/2026

What is the structure of Spirit as a Journal?

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26/02/2026

SPIRIT AS A JOURNAL

Guest Editor Vaiva Grainytė
Editor Kotryna Lingienė
English Language Editor Gemma Lloyd
Issue Design Laura Varžgalytė

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13/11/2025

Thank you to everyone who joined us for the launch of Vessel as a Journal!

Together with Defne Ayas, Raimundas Malašauskas, and Neringa Černiauskaitė (Pakui Hardware), we explored performance as a form of reality-making and a space for collective imagination.

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Photo by Vytenis Jankūnas

15/10/2025

VESSEL AS A JOURNAL

The ninth edition, edited by Defne Ayas (Senior Curator-at-Large at New York’s PERFORMA and the new director of the Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven), explores the relationship between the production of reality and visual art performance, how performance shapes our understanding of politics, and vice versa. It also addresses questions of selfhood, desire, and camouflage in the twenty-first century, examining convergences and encryptions as they relate to matters of intimacy. Ultimately, this issue asks how artists connect with one another and with their immediate audiences amid tides of annihilation, and how they continue to sustain their nexus of ideas, hold fast to their core of artistic thinking, and remain committed to its manifestation on stage, most often, under the lights.

Guest Editor Defne Ayas
Editor Kotryna Lingienė
English Language Editor Gemma Lloyd
Issue Design Inga Navickaitė-Drąsutė

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Photo by Jonas Balsevičius

06/08/2025

The story behind the cover of issue no.8

“I bumped into Kemežys at the CAC – we were both working there at the time – and I said, ‘Take a photo of me.’ ‘Alright,’ he said, ‘I’ll bring the camera.’ I was sweaty, wearing a T-shirt, but I threw on a jacket. I opened Čiurlionis’ book, which has his portrait in it, and I looked at my reflection in the window of the CAC courtyard on the first floor. I asked him, ‘What do you think, does it look similar if I stand like this?’ Click. It took four takes to do it. We chose one of those photos. Others agreed it looked similar. That portrait of me ended up hanging in a winery – people would say, ‘Yeah, I know, that’s the painter, Čiurlionis.’ It’s like KFC or Che Guevara on a T-shirt, it’s like a brand – you get confused, you get mistaken,” said Donatas Jankauskas-Duonis.

Excerpt from a conversation between Asta Vaičiulytė and Donatas Jankauskas-Duonis

Photo: M.K. Čiurlionis Museum of Art, photographer Gustina Keturakytė

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12/06/2025

Escape from M.K. Čiurlionis, or perhaps together with him?

AS A JOURNAL, invited guests to the presentation of the eighth issue, ESCAPE, the first in the magazine's history to be inspired by a single person. The event took place at the Nacionalinis M. K. Čiurlionio dailės muziejus in Kaunas.

The editor of the issue, philosopher, writer and curator of the Contemporary Art Centre Edvardas Šumila and sculptor Donatas Jankauskas-Duonis attended the event. Editor-in-chief Kotryna Lingienė moderated the discussion.

Photo: M. K. Čiurlionis National Art Museum, photographer Gustina Keturakytė.

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27/05/2025

ESCAPE AS A JOURNAL

Lukas Brasiskis interviews Deimantas Narkevičius | From Tarkovsky to AI: On the Evolving Resonance of Solaris

Lukas Brasiskis is the Curator of Film and Video at e-flux. He was a co-curator of the 14th Shanghai Biennale (2023–24) and is one of the three Artistic Directors of the upcoming Seoul Media City Biennale (2025). After receiving his PhD degree in Cinema Studies from New York University in 2022, he has taught courses at Columbia University and Brooklyn College/CUNY. His writing on moving image is widely published, and most recently he was the co-editor of Cinema and the Environment in Eastern Europe (Berghahn Press, 2024) and Jonas Mekas: The Camera Was Always Running (Yale University Press, 2022). Since 2024, he has been a co-editor of e-flux’s weekly publication Film Notes.

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25/05/2025

ESCAPE AS A JOURNAL

Goda Palekaitė | Hallucinating Čiurlionis

Goda Palekaitė is an artist, writer and researcher working at the intersection of contemporary art, performance, artistic research, literature, and anthropology. Her practice revolves around projects exploring the politics of historical narratives, the agency of dreams and imagination, and social conditions of creativity. Her recent solo exhibitions have been held at Beursschouwburg in Brussels, Västerås Art Museum, Kunsthal Gent, Editorial in Vilnius, and Konstepidemin in Gothenburg. In recent years, her performances and installations have been presented at Whitechapel Gallery in London, BOZAR Brussels, Vartai Gallery in Vilnius, Tranzit Bratislava, The Biennale Architettura 2018 in Venice, Galerie Georg Kargl in Vienna, Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius, Kanal–Centre Pompidou in Brussels, among others. In 2020 she published the book of fiction, Schismatics (Lapas books). She is currently the curator of the Alternative Education Programme at Rupert, Vilnius. Palekaitė holds a BFA in fine arts, an MA in social and cultural anthropology, a Post-Master in artistic research and is soon to defend a PhD at Hasselt University.

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Photo by Jonas Balsevičius

23/05/2025

ESCAPE AS A JOURNAL

Valentinas Klimašauskas | Vocal Notes for Labouring Worlds

Valentinas Klimašauskas is a curator and writer. In 2024, he curated the Lithuanian pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennial (with Jo.o Laia, artists: Pakui Hardware and Marija Teresė Rožanskaitė) and ‘Inflammation’, a solo show by Pakui Hardware, at the Museum of Applied Arts and Design, Vilnius. Together with Jo.o Laia, Klimašauskas curated ‘The Endless Frontier’, the 14th Baltic Triennial at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius (2021). Other recent curatorial projects include ‘Ocean Eyes’, the Coast Contemporary festival in Lofuotta/L.fot/Lofoten Islands (2023); ‘An Incomplete & Unreliable Guide to Social Media War Room’ as part of the ‘Curated by’ festival at Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna (2021) and ‘The s*x lives of fruit flies’ at Low gallery, Riga (2021). Klimašauskas is the author of Telebodies. Bleeding Subtitles for Postrobotic Scenes (Mousse Publishing, 2024).

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21/05/2025

ESCAPE AS A JOURNAL

Chiara Bottici | Two Fragments and an Imaginal Journey

Chiara Bottici is a Professor of Philosophy and co-founder of the Gender and Sexualities Studies Institute at The New School for Social Research in New York. She is the author of several books, including Anarchafemminism (Bloomsbury Academic, 2021), A Feminist Mythology (Bloomsbury, 2021), Imaginal Politics (Columbia University Press, 2014), A Philosophy of Political Myth (Cambridge University Press, 2007), and Men and States: Rethinking the Domestic Analogy in A Global Age (Palgrave, 2009). With Benoit Challand, she co-authored Imagining Europe: Myth, Memory, Identity (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and The Myth of the Clash of Civilizations (Routledge, 2010). She has published in leading academic journals, including The Journal of Political Philosophy, European Journal of Social Theory, European Journal of Political Theory, Philosophy and Social Criticism, Constellations: An International Journal of Critical and Democratic Theory, and Globalizations. Her work has been translated into a dozen languages.

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