E.: And which installation do you feel turned out best?
V.: Unfortunately, it wasn’t created in Vilnius, and there is almost no possibility of repeating it. It hasn’t even been photographed. I was lucky enough to take part in an international symposium called Project Island in Gdańsk last summer. It was attended by artists and architects from the Baltic countries. The architects had to present designs for the island’s development and several specific buildings (a Multimedia Centre, etc.), but the symposium’s main concept was close collaboration between contemporary artists and architects in solving urban problems. At first, I intended to participate as an architect with designs for buildings. I modelled skyscrapers out of metal and mirror glass and presented my concept for the island’s development. But instead of simply displaying it, I couldn’t help turning it into another installation. I was given 500 square metres in a former grain barn. I like large spaces. I hung ten projectors from the ceiling, showing slides of the models in darkness on the floor, about two metres in size. Whoever saw the installation immediately assumed I was one of the artists, even though it was a real architectural design, just presented in an unusual way.

– Erika Grigoravičienė, ‘Plieninis pabučiavimas’, 7 meno dienos, 14 April 1995

Artists: Aida Čeponytė, Viktoras Kormilcevas, Valdas Ozarinskas

Photographs courtesy of the Valdas Ozarinskas Foundation archive

Exhibited at the Wyspa International Multimedia Workshop, Gdańsk, Poland, 1997

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