Period
2010
Proposed by
Raimundas Malasauskas
Location
Vilnius
About the project
Darius Mikšys’s projects vary from video documentation of a visit to the Parapsychology Fair at the Vilnius Sports’ Palace to organizing artist’s parents meetings, selling an empty bottle of perfume on e-bay, procrastinating lecture On Procrastinating, proposing an ABBA museum in Qantas plane for Tempelhof airport in Berlin and establishing the official Vilnius cricket club. Creating a series of sculpture works named My Jeff Koons and the attempt to produce The Shroud of Gilles Peterson.
The artist has declined to make the proposal available online.
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About the artist
Darius Mikšys was born in 1969 in Kaunas, Lithuania. Solo exhibitions, meetings, and text performances include: “Behind the white curtain”, The 54th Venice Biennale, Venice (2011), “The copy”, Manifesta 8, Murcia (2010), “Persuasion of Paul”, X Baltic Triennial, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (2009), “Artist’s Parents Meeting,” Performa 09, New York (2009) and Biennale of Sydney 2008 (2008), “How to simulate eye contact?”, Gasworks, London (2007), “An entangled particle of myself who plays in front of mirror being invisible”, Lyon Biennial, Lyon (2007).
