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Forest as a Journal (.pdf)
Issue No. 1, Autumn/Winter 2021€0Guest Editors Jurga Daubaraitė and Jonas Žukauskas
Editor Kotryna Lingienė
English Language Editor Gemma Lloyd
Issue Design Gailė PranckūnaitėThis first issue of * as a Journal, focuses on Forest. Forest as a constructed space unavoidably reliant on human actions, no longer nature, but infrastructure; an environment of natural systems governed, exploited, and regulated by human interventions, technologies, industries, institutions and agencies. How can cultural practices enhance the optics through which society senses a forest?€0This first issue of * as a Journal, focuses on Forest. Forest as a constructed space unavoidably reliant on human actions, no longer nature, but infrastructure; an environment of natural systems governed, exploited, and regulated by human interventions, technologies, industries, institutions and agencies. How can cultural practices enhance the optics through which society senses a forest?[ Close Table of Contents ] Close Table of ContentsNeringa Forest
Jochen LempertThinking Things Through a Forest
A conversation with Nene Tsuboi and Tuomas Toivonen by Jonas ŽakaitisA Forest’s Drive for Motion: Acoustic Ecologies and the Sonicity of Labour
Sofia LemosThe Right not to be Offsetted
Interview with Cooking Sections (Daniel Fernández Pascual and Alon Schwabe) by Jurga Daubaraitė and Jonas ŽukauskasOn Forest and Time
Gabrielė GrigorjevaInfra-Baltic Landscapes
Jonathan Lovekin and David GrandorgeCormorants in Ancient Woods
A conversation between Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė and Mindaugas SurvilaOn how the Tree Became a Pellet: Capital Forests of the Baltics
Signe PelneOn Forest Walking and Ecologies of Care
Agata MarzecovaSongs From the Compost: Notes on Symbiotic Relationality and Eglė Budvytytė’s Lichenous Poetics
Amelia GroomThe Grammar of Lichens
Aistė AmbrazevičiūtėA Forest is Like a City – With its own Streets, Squares and Different Land Uses
Interview with Laura Garbštienė and Onutė Grigaitė by Jurga Daubaraitė and Jonas ŽukauskasThe Timber Couturier
Kotryna Lingienė and Rasa JuškevičiūtėFor Potato Peel
Monika JanulevičiūtėNeringa Forest Architecture
Egija Inzule, Jurga Daubaraitė and Jonas ŽukauskasForest Paintings by Algirdas Šeškus
Virginija JanulevičiūtėCosmos as a Journal (.pdf)
Issue No. 2, Autumn/Winter 2021€0Guest Editor Julijonas Urbonas
Editor Kotryna Lingienė
English Language Editor Gemma Lloyd
Issue Design Gailė PranckūnaitėIn the second issue of * as a Journal, the asterisk is replaced by the word ‘cosmos’. The guest editor Julijonas Urbonas, whose Lithuanian Space Agency represented Lithuania at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, invites readers to leave the ground and delve into the space above our heads. How does it read, feel, taste, and sound? Catapulted up there, our reach and imagination are confronted with the hostility of outer space – otherworldliness at its most acute. The Cosmos issue looks into how we can attune imagination to such a departure from our terrestrial origins.€0In the second issue of * as a Journal, the asterisk is replaced by the word ‘cosmos’. The guest editor Julijonas Urbonas, whose Lithuanian Space Agency represented Lithuania at the 17th International Architecture Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, invites readers to leave the ground and delve into the space above our heads. How does it read, feel, taste, and sound? Catapulted up there, our reach and imagination are confronted with the hostility of outer space – otherworldliness at its most acute. The Cosmos issue looks into how we can attune imagination to such a departure from our terrestrial origins.[ Close Table of Contents ] Close Table of ContentsThe Very First Space Programme of the Lithuanian Space Agency: A Planet Made of Human Bodies
Julijonas UrbonasJulijonas Urbonas and Gailė Griciūtė talk about their Collaboration on Extraterrestrial Sound
Comet Composition/Alien Materiality: Resilience, Attunement, and our Sonic Imagination
Daniel GilfillanOtherworldly Journeys
NahumOn Extraterrestrial Relativism
Daniel OberhausUnited in a Common Vertigo
Rob La Frenais interviews Kitsou DuboisIntimacies with(in) the Space Station
Eleanor S. Armstrong and Akvilė TerminaitėWhale Space, or, The Killers in Eden
Fred ScharmenConcept of Creation in Lithuanian Mythology
Radvilė RacėnaitėOn how the Tree Became a Pellet: Capital Forests of the Baltics
Signe PelneThe Curious Case of Lithuanian Astrobotany
Goda Raibytė inteviews Danguolė ŠvegždienėStranger than Fiction: the Reality and Fantasy of Eating in Space
Jane LeviThe Whiffing Particle
Milda DainovskytėThe Space Rose: How the Sense of Smell Mediates Human Futures in the Cosmos
Claire Isabel WebbUnrealised Cosmic art
The Ends of Everythings – Andy Gracie
Quintillion Years – Emilio Chapela
MDRS – Joseph Popper
True Moonshine – Julijonas Urbonas
Tour de Moon – Nelly Ben Hayoun Stépanian
There is No Such Thing as Empty Space – Nicole L’Huillier
Sightseer – Sitraka Rakotoniaina
Terra Nullius – Xin Liu
Soundscapes as a Journal (.pdf)
Issue No. 3, Spring/Summer 2022€0Guest Editor Damian Lentini
Editor Kotryna Lingienė
English Language Editor Gemma Lloyd
Issue Design Ugnė BalčiūnaitėThe third issue is dedicated to sound: as art; as vibrations in space; and as a constituent component of our experience of the world around us. Guest edited by Damian Lentini, the edition probes sound's ability to shape and generate effects. Soundscapes as a Journal invites leading artists, writers and scholars to investigate sound's ability to shift back and forth across times and spaces; incorporating traditional and contemporary positions, digital and analogue technologies, as well as that which emanates from both organic and inanimate bodies.€0The third issue is dedicated to sound: as art; as vibrations in space; and as a constituent component of our experience of the world around us. Guest edited by Damian Lentini, the edition probes sound's ability to shape and generate effects. Soundscapes as a Journal invites leading artists, writers and scholars to investigate sound's ability to shift back and forth across times and spaces; incorporating traditional and contemporary positions, digital and analogue technologies, as well as that which emanates from both organic and inanimate bodies.[ Close Table of Contents ] Close Table of ContentsEditorial
Damian LentiniA Cloud Has a Shadow
Daina PupkevičiūtėAn Epitaph for a Fakir of Lithuanian Music
Jūratė KatinaitėThe World is Here for You
Daniel OberhausOn the Enduring (Mythic) legacy of Twentytwentyone
Damian Lentini Interviews Arturas BumšteinasThe Loop
Simona ŽemaitytėFallen Light
Anton LukoszeviezeLithuanian Soundscapes
Andrej VasilenkoI Was Thinking About What You Said
Radvilė Buivydienė interviews Guy DubiousPost-Soviet Gendered Soundscapes: Lithuania
Sandra KazlauskaitėThe Contours of Paranormal Music in Lithuania
Domininkas KunčinasA Compilation of Lithuanian Sound Art
Curated by Eye Gymnastics