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Julijonas Urbonas
Salvagepunk of Planet of People, 2024

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Stainless steel 

3 x 300cm x 50 cm 

 

Toys or choreographic devices? Julijonas Urbonas places three stainless steel tubes between the trees at the edge of the green area. The swimming pool guests are invited to experiment with the artwork Salvagepunk of Planet of People. Depending on the number of people interacting with the tubes, the boundary between art and entertainment shifts. Visitors can also simply bounce on them – provided they form a group.  

Urbonas reused elements from his project Planet of People (2020) for the three-part installation: In it, he speculated on how a group of people could be catapulted into space and to a Lagrange point that corresponds to our understanding of nothingness. Salvagepunk is a post-apocalyptic science fiction style that deals with technology and culture based on recycled material. In such books, films or video games, people survive by the community reusing old technologies – similar to the tubes recycled as works of art. 

 

Co-funded by Lithuanian Council for Culture @lietuvoskulturostaryba

About the Artist

Julijonas Urbonas (he/him), born in 1981 in Klaipeda (LTU), lives and works in Vilnius (LTU). He is an artist, designer, researcher, engineer, founder of the Lithuanian Space Agency, and professor at the Vilnius Academy of Arts. Urbonas previously served as the director of the amusement park in Klaipėda, Lithuania. His artistic practice involves critical design, amusement park engineering, performative architecture, scenography, and extraterrestrial and kinetic art. His projects are included in museum collections such as the Lithuanian Art Museum (Vilnius, LTU), the X Museum Beijing (Beijing, CHN), and the Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (Karlsruhe, DE).