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Gediminas Urbonas, TRANSACTION

TRANSACTION focuses on the search, development and realization of a scripting process for an ongoing society narrative that in the exhibition context, charts the relation between media, memory, politics and the play of traumatic identity within contemporary Lithuanian culture.

Transaction is created within and outside of an institutional context, including workshop sessions, multi-media installation, website, film archive, public events, and media production.

It started in Vilnius during 2000 by artists Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas and was first staged at Witte de With, Rotterdam in a dialogue with curator Bartomeu Mari.

“You are sitting and reading this book.
I come into the room and say “Hi there!”
You look up and replay “Hi!”.
We just completed a simple transaction.

A transaction takes place when I offer some kind of communication to you and you replay. It is the basic unit of social discourse.

Communication between people always takes the form of chains of transactions, which are framed in set of decisions based on the script of life”.

Gediminas Urbonas is associate professor in the program in Art, Culture and Technology. This work is done in  collaboration with Nomeda Urbonas.