Space 0–14 is a collaborative architectural project comprising fourteen silver-coloured tents that form a temporary autonomous city. The architectural ideas presented in these structures deliberately refused to conform to the typical rules of urban design, inserting themselves into the urban fabric as foreign bodies: bright, provocative, even somewhat aggressive.

The tents resembled flying objects or structures floating mid-air, governed by neither scale nor permit logic. This was an architecture that proposed questions rather than solutions: who has the right to shape the city, and who defines the boundaries between the temporary and the permanent, between utopia and reality. The project served as an open platform for discussion on contemporary architecture: its opportunities, its threats, and its relationship with a society that is not always ready for such interventions.

One of the directors of the New Millennium Experience Company, Robert Warner, was particularly impressed by the Lithuanian architects’ mini-projects. He described the works by Valdas Ozarinskas, Aida Čeponytė, Gintaras Kuginys, and Audrius and Marina Bučas as picturesque explorations of architectural adventure.

– Vytas Rudavičius, ‘Lietuvių menas – impozantiškoje Grinvičo scenoje’, Lietuvos rytas, supplement Mūzų malūnas, 3 October 2000.

Artists: Audrius Bučas, Aida Čeponytė, Marina Bučienė, Darius Čiūta, Tomas Grunskis, Gintaras Kuginys, Tomas Rasiulis, Ginas Štelbys, Modestas Šipyla, Valdas Ozarinskas

Photographs courtesy of the Valdas Ozarinskas Foundation archive

Exhibited at the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius and Lithuanian Artists on the World Stage, the Millennium Dome, London, 2000

Other sources:

Rūta Mikšionienė, ‘Architektūra – menų motina ir funkcijos vergė’, Lietuvos rytas, supplement Mūzų malūnas, 3 October 2000.

Art Projects