{"id":357,"date":"2023-09-05T09:04:59","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T08:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/europa-sostine-tapsmas\/?p=357"},"modified":"2023-09-08T09:24:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T08:24:21","slug":"vilnius-and-vilnius-the-parallel-city-of-photographer-algirdas-seskus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/europa-sostine-tapsmas\/en\/vilnius-and-vilnius-the-parallel-city-of-photographer-algirdas-seskus\/","title":{"rendered":"Vilnius and Vilnius: The Parallel City of Photographer Algirdas \u0160e\u0161kus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Margarita Matulyt\u0117 (Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, Lithuanian National Museum of Art)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The memorable and recognisable \u201cangles\u201d of Vilnius have been created and embedded in cultural memory by J\u00f3zef Czechowicz, Jan Bu\u0142hak, Algimantas Kun\u010dius and other famous photographers. However, among these prominent figures who immortalized the capital, we do not find Algirdas \u0160e\u0161kus (born in 1945 in Vilnius), who never photographed Vilnius on purpose, yet mostly photographed in Vilnius. The Vilnius archive of the artist contains many images of the city\u2019s everyday life, which in the Soviet era (and even today), did not correspond to the imagined identities of the capital.<\/p>\n<p>In search for alternatives to the visual representation of Vilnius, the research draws on science fiction, China Mi\u00e9ville\u2019s detective story <em>The City &amp; The City<\/em> (2009), which was referred to by the visual culture theorist Nicholas Mirzoeff, attempting to understand how to see the world. In Mi\u00e9ville\u2019s novel, two cities exist in one physical place, yet their inhabitants strive not to see each other\u2019s\u2014strange\u2014cities. Mental and ideological differences create not only an invisible boundary but also border zones, crosshatched by intersecting socio-cultural interests, which Paul-Michel Foucault describes as heterotopias.<\/p>\n<p>\u0160e\u0161kus created a parallel city, which the inhabitants of Vilnius, like the heroes in Mi\u00e9ville\u2019s novel, were learning not to see. The gaze of \u0160e\u0161kus, who made his debut in 1980, was ignored by the traditionalists of the dominant Lithuanian school of photography. His work was viewed with the suspicion by the Soviet censors, as his photographs \u201cresembled the attempts of a schoolchild just starting out in photography, trying to make a photograph for a family album.\u201d The \u201cdilettante,\u201d \u201cuninteresting\u201d images are in dissonance with the representation of the city imagined and still propagated by various ideological powers. The photographs by \u0160e\u0161kus resemble the pages of a secret diary of the city, worth of reading, where one can move through the heterotopic territory, cross the \u201cborder\u201d and see different Vilnius.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Margarita Matulyt\u0117 (Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, Lithuanian National Museum of Art) The memorable and recognisable \u201cangles\u201d of Vilnius have been created and embedded in cultural memory by J\u00f3zef Czechowicz, Jan Bu\u0142hak, Algimantas Kun\u010dius and other famous photographers. However, among these prominent figures who immortalized the capital, we do not find Algirdas \u0160e\u0161kus (born in 1945&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abstracts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/europa-sostine-tapsmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/europa-sostine-tapsmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/europa-sostine-tapsmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/europa-sostine-tapsmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/europa-sostine-tapsmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/europa-sostine-tapsmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":486,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/europa-sostine-tapsmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357\/revisions\/486"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/europa-sostine-tapsmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/europa-sostine-tapsmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/konferencijos.lnb.lt\/europa-sostine-tapsmas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}