Lithuanian Iceberg, 2024
sound; site-specific installation
M-9a, Naujoji Uosto g. 5
The first Lithuanian sea captain, Liudvikas Stulpinas, worked in this house from 1923. In 1912, while steering the ship Birma across the Atlantic, Captain Stulpinas heard the distress call of the sinking Titanic, ordered an immediate change of course and rushed to rescue the Titanic’s passengers. But because of the erroneous coordinates it was given, the Birma failed to save a single person; it only photographed the iceberg that destroyed the Titanic. The abandoned, crumbling “captain’s house”, left standing right at the edge of a busy street, today looks like a bleak, solitary iceberg itself. On the northern side of the building, which cannot be approached because of the street, a barely discernible image of an iceberg glows, while through the boarded-up door comes music that Anton Lukoszevieze has played from this iceberg as if from a score.
Paulina Pukytė
Anton Lukoszevieze is an interdisciplinary artist, composer and musician. In his practice Anton uses experimental sound, performance, photography, video, experimental printmaking, drawing, collage and found objects. He has collaborated with a wide range of artists and organisations, such as Christian Marclay, Beatrice Gibson, Jayne Parker, Lina Lapelytė, Philip Corner, Jim O’Rourke, Phill Niblock, Tony Conrad, Milan Knížák, Arturas Bumšteinas, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Tate Modern, the Whitechapel Gallery, the Serpentine Gallery and Copenhagen Contemporary. He is the founder and director of the experimental music group Apartment House.
