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| UNEMPLOYED TIME |
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| Coordinator: LNO (Organization of Lithuanian Non-creators) |
| Curator: Vladas Balsys |
| Date: 2007 - 2009 |
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| ABOUT PROJECT |
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| First time the Project was mentioned in „Magazine“ (Nr.2) the quarterly review of the Klaipėda Exhibition Palace. |
| There were 17 artists joined the campaign according to the official data provided by the Organization of Lithuanian |
| Non-creators. The main aim of the project was nothing to create. The artists were able to make a choice (on-line) how |
| long not to create: a) an hour; b) a month; c) one week; d) one month; e) one year f) the rest of the life. The participants |
| sent their names and chosen period of nonproductive creative time (a, b, c, d, e, f). The next step of “Unemployed Time” |
| was the show. Organization of Lithuanian Non-creators made decision to arrange view shows simply by locking the |
| doors of the galleries, exhibition palaces and art institutions for one year without access to the audience. It was done |
| through the e-mails. The President of Organization of Lithuanian Non-creators himself sent 72 e-mails to the art |
| institutions asking them to host the project. None of the institutions answered. Next step for the realization of the |
| project was the Press. Invitation to take part in the art project “Unemployed Time” by closing exhibition halls and art |
| galleries was published in the weekly cultural supplement of the daily “Lietuvos Rytas” (Nr. 138) on June 19th, 2007. |
| Nobody responded. No more means for dissemination of the project were adopted and was made decision to cease the |
| project. Few months passed and the curator of the Klaipėda Exhibition Palace occasionally remembered the project |
| “Unemployed Time” and suggested to arrange the show in Klaipėda. In December, 2007 there was filled up the |
| application for the Klaipeda Exhibition Palace program of art projects and by January 2008 there was given a partial |
| approval for it’s realization. The administration of the Art Palace disagreed on closing the main exhibition spaces for |
| the period of one year and gave permission to use the hall. The provisional president of Organization of Lithuanian |
| Non-creators in rush order made a decision to open the show of the project without showing anything. He but also |
| agreed on leaving the doors of the hall unlocked. The only thing showed was the blank list of paper – the poster |
| of the show. The poster meant the official existence of the project of “Unemployed time”, though apparent |
| absence of any reflection on it neither in the press, nor in the exhibition hall, nor in other means of information. |
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| MEMBERS OF THE PROJECT |
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| Vladas Balsys (d), Darius Vaicekauskas (c), Donatas Cerniauskas (a), Jomantas Padgurskas (e), Saulius Druskis (a), |
| Alina Matijosiene (c), Dovydas Augaitis (c), Skaiste Kazarauskaite (b), Lilija Putniene (e), Eurika Balsyte (d), |
| Audrius Grinys (a), Donatas Medzevicius (c), Sandra Malaskeviciute (c), Remigijus Praspaliauskas (b), |
| Bronislovas Rudys (d), Rolandas Rastauskas (b), Nezinomas Menininkas (f), Liepa Kuraite (c). |
