Three Uses of the Knife 3: Olof Olsson at the National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania

Three Uses of the Knife -- an annual series of lectures and seminars around various topics of art organized in Vilnius since 2009, initiated by the team of contemporary art online magazine artnews.lt in collaboration with the Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius) and the Art Information Centre of the National Gallery of Art (Vilnius).

Inspired by a cloud of recent discourses around the revival of the linguistic turn, or its modification into the narrative turn, as suggested by Dieter Roelstraete, this year's Three Uses of the Knife (re)turns its focus on language and oral communication.

Olof Olsson is an artist based in Copenhagen. In his youth Olof Olsson dabbled in journalism, documentary photography, and as a radio disc jockey. At university Olof studied languages, philosophy and translation theory. In 1992 Olof did his first exhibition, a fictive account of an American photographer, Joseph Slightly, and his adventures and sufferings during the first half of the 20th century. Since 2007 Olof is working with spoken performances.

On November 18, 2011, at the Auditorium of the National Gallery of Art Olof Olsson talked about:

"Names. It's funny how easily we seem to accept names. But what sense does it make for a computer to carry the name of a fruit?

Reality. Sometimes we want it, sometimes we don't. And a lot of the time we prefer something in-between, like a documentary film.

Sanitary porcelain. Why it's probably impossible to get ridiculously rich selling sanitary porcelain."

For more information about the series please visit: http://www.3-uses-of-the-knife.lt/en/

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