The Pendulum

About the project

Darius Mikšys’s projects vary from video documentation of a visit to the Parapsychology Fair at the Vilnius Sports’ Palace to organizing artist’s parents meetings, selling an empty bottle of perfume on e-bay, procrastinating lecture On Procrastinating, proposing an ABBA museum in Qantas plane for Tempelhof airport in Berlin and establishing the official Vilnius cricket club. Creating a series of sculpture works named My Jeff Koons and the attempt to produce The Shroud of Gilles Peterson. 

The artist has declined to make the proposal available online.

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Darius Mikšys, Behind the White Curtain, 2011. Installation view Pavilion of Lithuania at the 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia. Photo: Francesco Galli. Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

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Darius Mikšys, Behind the White Curtain, 2011. Installation view Pavilion of Lithuania at the 54th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia. Photo: Francesco Galli. Courtesy of la Biennale di Venezia

About the artist

Darius Mikšys was born in 1969 in Kaunas, Lithuania. Solo exhibitions, meetings, and text performances include: “Behind the white curtain”, The 54th Venice Biennale, Venice (2011), “The copy”, Manifesta 8, Murcia (2010), “Persuasion of Paul”, X Baltic Triennial, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius (2009), “Artist’s Parents Meeting,” Performa 09, New York (2009) and Biennale of Sydney 2008 (2008), “How to simulate eye contact?”, Gasworks, London (2007), “An entangled particle of myself who plays in front of mirror being invisible”, Lyon Biennial, Lyon (2007).