Video programme of the project "Obscene West. Naglis"
The project "Obscene West. Naglis" (named after the monthly magazine of the gay community in Lithuania in the 90s) is dedicated to queer culture in the 1990s and its manifestations in Lithuania and the neighbouring Baltic countries – Estonia and Latvia. The Naglis section focuses on the practices of queer artists and the social context of their works during the end of the past century.
The video program developed for the project, including artworks or filmed video material (TV archives) of the 90s and 00s, addresses problems related to the views towards queer culture, the self-representation of LGBTQ people and the social turmoil in post-Soviet countries at that time. More broadly, the program focuses on gender equality and feminist approaches in video art.
"Obscene West. Naglis" draws a social landscape of the three newly established nation-states and their polarized relations towards gender and its cultural and social status, leading to questions about how these histories and relations resonate with the trajectories of global developments and how can we mediate them today.
The program has been developed through collaborative research work between Agnė Bagdžiūnaitė (Kaunas Artis Haus), Maria Helen Känd (EKKM) and Andra Silapētere (LCCA).
Video program:
Estonia
Anna-Stina Treumund “Mothers”, 2008, 8 min, Estonian with English subt.
Anna-Stina Treumund “Loser”, 2011, 1 min, English with Estonian subt.
Mark Raidpere “Shifting focus”, 2005, 9 min 27 s, Estonian with English subt.
Lithuania
Laura Stasiulytė “From the Life of Young Ladies“, 2001, 14 min, Lithuanian and English
Santa Lingevičiūtė “And Death Shall Have No Dominion” 2008, 4 min 34 s, English
Latvia
Arta Biseniece “I love you”, 1992, 2 min 35 s, English
Dace Džeriņa “Liberation”, 2002, 6 min
The project "Obscene West. Naglis" was funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture