A SIREN SONG W/ EMILIJA ŠKARNULYTĖ

Sunday, November 10

11am, light bites served

518 N. Western Ave. LA

This Sunday, Lithuanian artist Emilija Skarnulyte will present a performance and talk about her artwork 
RIPARIA, 2023, part of the exhibition Life on Earth: Art & Ecofeminism.  We will gather, discuss survival, adaptation, and optimism in the face of crisis.

RIPARIA is an immersive video work that uses the mythological figure of the siren to reflect on technology, the future, our anthropological past, and the human impulse to control nature. Using photogrammetry and underwater sensors, Škarnulytė depicts the crossing of the Rhône whose banks were formerly the home of neolithic matriarchal societies as posited by Lithuanian archaeologist and anthropologist Marija Gimbutas (1921-1994). In the 1960s and ‘70s, Gimbutas was a professor and curator at the University of California, Los Angeles, where her pioneering ideas around female-led societies and goddess worship were deemed controversial by the male-dominated scientific community.

Lead support for Life on Earth: Art & Ecofeminism is provided by Getty and PST Art: Art & Science Collide, with additional generous support by The Margaret Morgan and Wesley Phoa Fund, The National Endowment for the Arts, The Hillenburg Family Foundation, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Knox Foundation, Teiger Foundation, and The Wilhelm Family Foundation.