Kipras Dubauskas. Emergency Break

NOS Visual Arts Production presents Emergency Break, the film installation by Kipras Dubauskas in Bologna, at the Foundation for Urban Innovation, curated by Elisa Del Prete and Silvia Litardi, Main Project of ART CITY Bologna 2022, on the occasion of Arte Fiera, in collaboration with Home Movies, Lithuanian Cultural Institute, Sandra Natali Residence for Artists and thanks to the hospitality of the Municipality of Bologna.
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Emergency Break is a 16 mm film installation that presents the trilogy dedicated to "rescue" that the Lithuanian artist Kipras Dubauskas has developed starting from 2019 and of which the last chapter will be made in Bologna in the course of 2022. Unpublished in Italy, the two films on display at the Sala Tassinari of the Foundation for Urban Innovation, 36 Chambers (3 ', 2019) and Daynighting (9', 2020), serve as a prelude to the Firestarter film collage that is presented in the Officina dell 'Urbana Lab Innovation (Salaborsa, Bramante Corridor), anticipating the new production that the artist will carry out in the city starting from a research period already started thanks to the collaboration with the Lithuanian Institute of Culture and the Sandra Natali Artist Residence.
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Emergency Break proposes "an emergency break" - says the artist - a moment of suspension to question oneself about rules and control, trust and otherness. Relief, with the relationships and practices that a "healing" process triggers, on an individual and collective level, become central themes for the artist in response to the current state of global emergency caused by the transformations taking place in the relationships between people, peoples and states.
In the investigation underway for Firestarter on underground Bologna and on the aesthetics of rescue, the artist intercepts the work of the National Fire Brigade, placing it in relation to the hagiographic iconography, while the perspective fugues of the Bolognese arcades give way to tunnels of road pipes or underground waterways, also drawing attention to the state of health of a historical heritage that cannot evade the maintenance of the "submerged".
The central theme of his research, the exploration of the subsoil is also the opening of 36 Chambers, an initiatory film in which the artist takes us with him on an expedition that he made over the course of 15 days, navigating 170km from Vilnius to Kaunas.
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While in Daynighting, whose title translates precisely this exploratory practice of the artist above and below the surface in the state of unconsciousness from day to night, an unidentified creature in an attempt to carry a message from afar that perhaps is precisely what we are trying to intercept from a world and a distant time, undergoes the fruitless action of a rescue.
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I am interested in this constant state of transformation and incessant precariousness to which human action leads.
Kipras Dubauskas

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