December 12, 2022
Author Liucija Dervinytė
Published in Echo Gone Wrong
The human-non-human relationship is a topic that has recently been given a lot of attention in the field of contemporary art. The global environmental crisis is leading us to think of new ways of relating to the world and nature. Since these are topics that are reflected in my own curatorial practice at Alt Lab, I invited the Irish artist Kira O’Reilly for a talk to learn more about her work.
Kira lives and works in Finland, and she was part of an artist residency project in Vilnius, where we met. At the end of her stay, Kira was invited to make a Winogradsky column workshop in Alt Lab, a non-disciplinary laboratory for artistic-scientific research, located in the SODAS2123 culture complex. A Winogradsky column is a way to culture and explore micro-organism communities, which gives grounds to think about the environments and the ecosystems we are part of.
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