Going public: strategies of intervention in Lithuania

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ENThis essay examines the development of contemporary public art in relation to a range of sites and social practices in post-1989 Lithuania. It asks how different artistic interventions in urban sites influenced the production of space during the political changes of the time and how ideologically constructed public space (expressed by a powerful verticality in Soviet monuments) was substituted by consumerist space (emphasizing horizontality and flatness of the surface, expressed in advertisements). It asks, too, what was the role of the artist and the community in producing a more dynamic form of the public discourse.