Cosmos as a Journal
Issue No. 2, Autumn/Winter 2021€15Guest 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.€15In 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
Forest as a Journal
Issue No.1, Spring/Summer 2021€15Guest Editors
Jurga Daubaraitė
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?€15This 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 Janulevičiūtė