Kulturos baraiEurozineKulturos barai2011-03-24Summary for Kulturos barai 1/2011Horst Schnack
Rose would not help Loreta
A visit to Lithuania and a rose that was not laid on the grave of Loreta Asanaviciute, murdered during the events of 13 January 1991. Horst Schnack discusses why the suffering of people in remote countries (Lithuania) does not inflict moral pain in the West. The horrible actions of the Stalinists remained something abstract, something that has raised no indignation. The German society still continues its closed introspection of self.Egle Wittig-Marcinkeviciute
New left of the old kind
The ideology of New Left 95 is based on selective tolerance. Such tolerance is peculiar to people who are tolerant not because of their principles but because such an attitude is fashionable, conditioned by group dynamics, social inertia or belonging to some interest group.The duty of Soviet historians -- to search for a white crow?
Discussion about the Soviet epoch, post-Soviet reality and attempts of historians to build bridges of meaning between the past and the present.Simas Celutka
Dialectics of freedom: critical notes
About positive and negative notions of freedom. According to Celutka, the positive element is important because it stresses the continuous struggle of a person with himself, and thus freedom expands. Freedom should not be understood simply as something free from exterior restrictions.Algirdas Patackas
About honour and humbleness
Some remarks after a scandal in a chivalrous sport
Why honour became a rarity in contemporary Lithuania.Romualdas Lankauskas
If you are not an Irish author...
On the everyday life of an artist in contemporary Lithuania, where those who are in power have no respect for culture an its creators.Justinas Marcinkevicius, Aurimas Svedas
"Man is essentially history"
Svedas met with poet Justinas Marcinkevicius while attempting to understand how the trajectory of history influenced the attitude of this writer to the past, personalities and processes.Tomas Kavaliauskas, Gøran A. Ohldieck
Why one can't shoot the waiter before dinner
Tomas Kavaliauskas talks with Gøran A. Ohldieck, director of the Norwegian art foundation 3,14 which presented an exhibition by the Bulgarian artist Dogu Bankov in Kaunas Zilinskas Museum-Gallery titled "Don't shoot the waiter before dinner". Ohldieck has lived in Kaunas for the last decade and moves between Kaunas, his native Bergen and Plovdiv.Rita Mikucionyte
Live spaces of memories
About the art of Kunigunda Dineikaite who has presented eight personal exhibitions, is one of the most interesting artists of the younger generation and who is becoming ever more popular.Kestutis Sapoka
Life and death of a fox. Project of Svajone and Paulius Stanikai in Vartai Gallery
By reconstructing and pushing subconscious images constructed in the advertising style peculiar to the present culture, Svajone and Paulius Stanikai not only activate contemporary mythologies but also speak about gaps opening between symbolic systems, belief and meanings.Ramune Marcinkeviciute
Stronger than herself
Realism of Experiences by theatre critic Ramune Marcinkeviciute and Study of Creative Biography by Theatre Director Dalia Tamuleviciute will be presented by Kulturos barai at Vilnius Book Fair. In this month's issue an excerpt of the book is published.Sarune Trinkunaite
Gintaras Varnas' Opening to the audience
Director Gintaras Varnas created a net out of his stage work as if a kind of CV on stage instead of offering his stage work of 1997 -- Audience by Federico García Lorca.Irena Alperyte
Three talks at the Scanorama Film Festival 2010
Irena Alperyte talks to Islandic artist Tómas Lemarquis, Norwegian Kon-tiki museum director Halfdan Tangen and Lithuanian director Paulius Gvildys.Jonas Rudokas
How the roads of neighbours became different
Rudokas, quoting Mykolas Römeris, speaks about the rights of nations and discusses relations between Belarus and Lithuania in the course of history.Odeta Zukauskiene
Contemporary Belorussian art in the landscape of political winter
Some notes on cultural dialogue. The exhibition "The Door Opens? Contemporary Belorussian Art Today" (curator Kestutis Kuizinas) is one of the art projects that reflects the cooperation between Lithuanian and Belarusian intellectuals and artists providing a hope that Belarussian self-reflexion will become stronger.Vytautas Urbanavicius
Burial places of Vytautas Magnus. New hypothesis
Urbanavicius brings the hypothesis that the burial place of Vytautas Magnus is in the southern nave of Vilnius Cathedral near the second pillar in a crypt that was made by the committee for the rescue of the cathedral during the flood of 1931. The claim may be verified by ongoing research.Vytautas Berenis
Drafts of the Latvian past and present
A review of the book From Recognition to Restoration. Latvia's History as a Nation-State. (ed. and introduced by David J. Smith, David Galbreath and Geoffrey Swain) Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi, 2010, p. 172.Krescencija Surkute
The fall of the enemy of the mob
Ironical essay on Lithuania's cultural and political life.