Public Bath is a space to attend to one's body and inner experience. What if a similar kind of attention and presence is enabled outside the bathing context? Perhaps public space is the bath, and we are the bathers? The project explores alternative modes of attention and being in public space. By offering tools to enhance one's receptivity and awareness, the participant is invited to claim their experience as the work itself.
Artist and philosopher Erik Vojevodin offers a ritual bath experience in the premises of the biennial's gallery. The visitors, situated among the exhibits, are invited to themselves become an embodiment of the biennial's theme 'Slow Down'.
The performance is part of the Vilnius-based mentorship programme Experiments’ Platform for emerging spatial practitioners. In 2025 four fellows explore the theme ’Reflecting Abundance’. Through immersive happenings the public is invited into the fellows’ project research in different locations across the city investigating urban velocities, exhausted winds, public baths and economies of wastelands. Following the happenings Experiments’ Platform hosts a discussion on the importance of experiments and alternative education.
Experiments’ Platform was founded in 2021 by the non-profit organisation Architekturos fondas
Please see the biennial programme for all the events:
Saturday October 4, 11-13: Urban Velocities
Saturday October 4, 15-18: Economies of Wasteland
Sunday October 5, 11-13: Windcatcher for Exhausted Winds
Sunday October 5, 15-19: Public Baths
Sunday October 5, 19-20: On alternative architecture education
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