Lithuanian Iceberg, 2024
sound; site-specific installation
M-9a Naujoji Uosto g. 5
This house was the workplace of Lithuania’s first captain, Liudvikas Stulpinas, from 1923. In 1912, while guiding the steamship Birma across the Atlantic, Captain Stulpinas received a disterss signal from the sinking Titanic, ordered an immediate change of course and rushed to the Titanic’s passengers’ rescue. Unable to find the Titanic due to the wrong coordinates, Birma was unable to save a single person, the crew only managed to take a picture of the iceberg that sunk the Titanic. The abandoned, crumbling ‘captain’s house’, right on the edge of a busy street, looks today like a lonely iceberg. On the north side of the building, which cannot be approached, an image of an iceberg is visible, while through the boarded-up door emanates the music created by Anton Lukoszevieze from the image of the iceberg as if it were a score.
Paulina Pukytė
Anton Lukoszevieze is an inter-disciplinary artist, composer and musician. In his practice he merges experimental sound, performance, contemporary dance, photography, video, text, drawing, and found objects. He has collaborated with a vast array of artists and organisations such as Christian Marclay, Beatrice Gibson, Jayne Parker, Lina Lapelytė, Philip Corner, Jim O’Rourke, Phill Niblock, Tony Conrad, Milan Knižak, Artūras Bumšteinas, Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Tate Modern, Whitechapel Gallery, Serpentine Gallery and Copenhagen Contemporary. He is the founder and Director of the experimental group Apartment House.
