Where Are My Flip Flops
Lecture-performance
“Where Are My Flip-Flops” is a lecture-performance in which Robertas Narkus elaborates on topics such as management of circumstances, uncertainty, taxonomies of cacti and foundation of the Vilnius Institute of Pataphysics. Starting off once upon a time in a Zoo, the narrative of the lecture continues in a former shoe shop in Helsinki, moving in space and time towards a residency of a former KGB agent in the outskirts of Vilnius, travelling to Paris without a previous intention and returning back with an idea. Accompanied by findings from different places Narkus piece suggests the presence of the extraordinary in the everyday.
Artist's Bio:
Robertas Narkus (1983) lives and works in Amsterdam. He describes his practice as the ‘management of chance in an economy of circumstance’. He brings together the ordinary and the absurd to explore notions of chance economics, hypothetical experiences and symbolic capital. Recently he has exhibited at de Appel arts centre (2015, 2014), Stroom den Hague (2014), Etablissement d’en face, Brussels (2014) and Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (2012). Narkus graduated with an MFA degree at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam and is the founder of the Institute of Pataphysics in Vilnius.