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IX Baltic Triennial of International Art;
Baltic Triennial 33 ½

BMW*
With magic, vampires, enchantments, extreme furtiveness, and other weird but true stories of life and death
Artists United

*At this moment, there are approximately one hundred other titles. A selection of them is listed below.

Black Market Worlds - Weird But True - Each day is a sort of ultimiere - The Unbearable Likeness of Being What…? - No Longer For Public Consumption - Confessional Jokes (or Confession as a Joke) - Not To Be Seen Again: Early 21st Century Standards – Unfolding - Yoo-hoo… is someone there? – Big Bang is Back – The Amber Way – This Was Unwritten - Common Private Knowledge – De Fight Clubs – Samsonites – It’s All A Show – and more…

These titles have either been suggested by: participating artists in the IX Baltic Triennial; or, by individuals engaged in correspondence on related subjects. We welcome suggestions for alternative titles. They will be used for the IX Baltic Triennial or future projects. Stay tuned…

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official dates
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rumors say
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September 23–November 20, 2005 at CAC Vilnius
October 1-2, 2005 at ICA London

May 7-June 22, 2022

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organizer
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ghost curators
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Sofia Hernandez Chong Cuy (New York)
Raimundas Malašauskas (Vilnius)
Alexis Vaillant (Paris)

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authorized participating venues
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london special guest curators
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Jens Hoffmann and Claire Fitzsimmons

Latvian Center of Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia, http://www.lcca.lv

TV1 channel, Lithuania, http://www.tv1.lt

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sponsors
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Undisclosed locations in the cities of Vilnius, London, Paris, Halifax, Riga, Šiauliai

Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Some Pirate Radio Waves Here and There

Celeste magazine (Mexico), Kunst.ee magazine (Tallinn), Pacemaker magazine (Paris), Pravda magazine (Vilnius), Metropolis M magazine (Netherlands)

http://www.ultimiere.com
http://www.blackmarketworlds.lt

Culture 2000
The Ministry of Culture of Lithuania
AFAA Association Francaise d'Action Artistique
French Cultural Centre, Vilnius
Mondriaan Foundation

IASPIS Italian Cultural Institute
Royal Embassy of the Netherlands

(list in progress)

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dracula strategy
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paradox
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Killing a project by shedding light on it or its parts. (Katie King, unpublished diaries, dated 1909)

Established approaches to exhibition making and viewing presuppose the need to communicate by way of exposure, representation, demonstration, or revelation.

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schizo-show
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curatorial approach
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The inability to distinguish between self and other is one of the symptoms. So, who stole the show? Vilnius or London (Baltic Triennial 33 ½)?

All understanding, as Lacan liked to say, is premised on the possibility of misunderstanding, no doubt a recipe for neurotic second-guessing and potential conflict. But the alternative is immeasurably worse: the transparency of thought is the very hallmark of madness. (Aaron Schuster, 2005)

This one takes interest in art, practices, and systems that do not necessarily claim, meet, or aim at transparency and identification. Instead, the curatorial approach focuses on people and things that must operate silently and be indiscernible. They are formatted in such a way as to be rapidly transformed in order to escape categorization and cohesion.

Contradiction is a premise through which to enter a terrain beyond knowledge and power.

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pirate pyramid
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accomplices
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It’s a commonly held belief that Peer-to-Peer (P2P) is about sharing files. It’s an appealing, democratic notion [] But that’s not quite how it works. [] People don't share what they buy; they share what is already being shared—the countless descendants of a single "Adam and Eve" file. It's a broadcast system. The pirate pyramid is a perfect amplifier. The signal becomes more robust at every descending level, until it gets down to the P2P networks…. (The Shadow Internet by Jeff Howe, Wired Magazine, January 2005)

The IX Baltic Triennial will include the work of approximately 35 artists (some of them preferred to remain undisclosed.) During the research period, a number of these artists were engaged in conversations about artistic practices and aesthetic strategies that creatively approached art making or the history of art with, or in relation to, black markets, shadow networks, magic, the occult, stolen identities, strategies of disappearance, invisible doubles, copyright undercurrents, illicit knowledge, oral futures, pirated relations and offshore laws, post-communism, gray or informal economies, supernatural secrets, clones, hoaxes, the devil, and related dealings.

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phenomenon
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possible traces
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According to rumor, a series of unusual occurrences perceptible to the senses but irrational to the mind have been occurring during the course of the exhibition research and planning (more of these have been prognosticated). The CAC Vilnius has been unable to confirm the sources of a number of these rumors. Weird but true. If you have any information about sources, please contact us at: info at cac.lt tel: +37052609531.

Five books will be published as part of the IX Baltic Triennial. Each of them will be uniquely designed. These books will replace a standard exhibition catalogue. The project website will have more descriptive information on the exhibition, and contain the catalogue of works by the participating artists and contributors.

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save the dates
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meeting places
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Friday, September 23, 2005, 18:00

October 1-2, 2005

Wednesday, September 14, 2005

CAC, Vokieciu 2, LT-01130, Vilnius, Lithuania

ICA, The Mall, London SW1Y 5AH, UK

Lyon Biennial – Istanbul Biennial – direct flight with Turkish Airlines: the 3 hours amazing opening of the IX Baltic Triennial at 10000 feet, minus 35 degrees with champagne fountains, immobile visit and formal introduction by Gabriel Lester's artist clone. Be there.

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learning how to get there
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other ways of getting there
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http://www.ryanair.com
http://www.seat61.com
http://www.globejuice.com
http://www.tripadvisor.com
http://www.iexplore.com
http://www.travel-lithuania.com
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Or please contact:

Julija Fomina, julija at cac.lt
Virginija Januškevičiūtė, virginija at cac.lt

http://www.alamut.com
http://www.ostension.org/whats_ostension.html
http://sarahtripp.com/

The Life of P.T. Barnum
by Himself

Getting Started in the Underground Economy
by Adam Cash

Aliens, Ghosts and Cults: Legends we live
by Bill Ellis

Modern Enchantments
by Simon During

The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen

Tell the Bees…
Belief, Knowledge & Hypersymbolic Cognition
by The Museum of Jurassic Technology

How to Disappear Completely and Never Be Found
by Doug Richmond

Vampires, An Uneasy Essay on Undead in Film
by Jalal Toufic

No Go the Bogeyman
by Marina Warner