• Sat 15 02 2025 / 6 – 8 pm •
Presentation and Artist Talk
WITH VANJA SMILJANIC and SAROOT SUPASUTHIVECH
The Academy of the Arts of the World (Akademie der Künste der Welt, ADKDW), Rupert Centre for Art, Residencies and Education, Goethe-Institut Vilnius and the Lithuanian Culture Institute present the culmination of the first Mutual Empathies cycle in Vilnius.
For this event, artists Saroot Supasuthivech and Vanja Smiljanić will screen moving-image works, share their participatory research still in progress, and converse with the audience about their projects.
Mutual Empathies is an experimental residency framework developed by the three institutions, that brings together Germany-based artists with those beyond Europe for a series of residencies and public programming. It aims to platform artistic positions that would not otherwise meet, responding to the countless, difficult ecopolitical questions looming for global society.
Cultural discourse and close listening are more important than ever as existing rifts in the media and social policy landscape are widening. While this can appear overwhelming, we look to the practice and implementation of empathy as a critical function in imagining positive futures.
Both artists have parallel projects assessing our individual, emotional responses to compounding global crises. Supasuthivech has excavated the layered connections between migration, folkloric song, and the construction of nationality. Smiljanić has researched regional ethno-cosmology, extraterrestrial visions, and tuning our senses to engage the unknowable.
Vanja Smiljanić (Belgrade RS, 1986) is a visual and performance artist based between Cologne and Lisbon. Smiljanić’s interdisciplinary projects combine visual arts, video, and performance to investigate how ideology emerges from the alienation of others, employing her body as a narrative vessel.
Saroot Supasuthivech (Bangkok TH, 1991) excavates the layered narratives of ritual sites, questioning the recording and construction of official history and identity. He uses installation, image, and sound to synthesise these projects, constructing intense hyperrealities and rites of remembrance.
Sat 15 02 2025 | 6 pm - 8 pm
ADKDW Studio
Herwarthstraße 3, 50672 Köln
In english language
Free entry
The room is steplessly accessible
