Skaidra Trilupaitytė is an art and culture politics researcher, critic, Senior Scholar at the Lithuanian Culture Research Institute, lecturer at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, author of monographs “Kūrybiškumo galia? Neoliberalistinės kultūros politikos kritika” [“The Power of Creativity? The Critique of Neoliberal Cultural Policy”] (2015) and “Lietuvos dailės gyvenimas ir institucijų kaita. Sovietmečio pabaiga – Nepriklausomybės pradžia” [“Lithuanian art and the changes of institutions. Late Soviet period – the beginning of independence”] (2017). In her scientific studies, S. Trilupaitytė analyses subjects of cultural politics, creativity, public spaces, those of evaluating totalitarian past, engaging in international intellectual exchange.

Today we keep on hearing about urbanistic cultural spaces and the necessity to expand in sustainable ways. Yet sustainability and continuity aren’t necessarily valuable in themselves. National holidays, anniversaries, culture capital programmes that compete with each other, and other occasions give birth to interesting temporary initiatives as well. This temporariness, inspired by the eventfulness, nudges organisations to constantly change and evolve. At the same time, notional institutions and spaces want to become solid structures and therefore encourage everyone to turn the city into something different than it is at that moment. These institutions and spaces don’t really exist, however they keep trying to obtain a body by creating a dramatic narrative around them and poking into the public medium of the press, right between the existing and the soon-to-be, between things that are real and those that aren’t.