this time the reading session will take different road
join us on Sunday 26 April from 5 pm
this time, our reader, who we could say is part of our space given the way he understands what we really do and his enormous support for our endeavours, will choose texts written by him in response to the books in our bookshop.
This time, it will be a reading (and thinking) together with POST BROTHERS.
This time, it will be a reading (and thinking) together with POST BROTHERS.
For many years, the co-dependent curator and enthusiast Post Brothers has referred to their text production as "word processing", an acknowledgement of not only the role mediated platforms and tools play in language (re)production, but also of the often unseen human transposition and manipulation of words around art and culture.
The term “word processor,” like “typewriter” before it, originally referred not to a machine or a computer program, but to a person—typically a female office worker trained to operate the machinery. For this reading and thinking session, Post Brothers will embrace word processing as IBM defined it at its outset: as "the combination of people, procedures, and equipment which transforms ideas into printed communications”, and we will read some texts and excerpts from his recent word production, often written in collaboration with artists or pilfering and manipulating cultural texts.
Post Brothers is a critical enterprise that includes Matthew Post, an enthusiast, word processor, educator, and (co)dependent curator engaged in artist-oriented projects and critical fabulations. From 2016-2019, Post Brothers was the curator at Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany, and from 2021-2023, they were an Associate Professor at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark. They have curated numerous exhibitions and projects across the world and regularly publish essays in artist publications, exhibition catalogues, and art and cultural journals. Some recent curated exhibitions of note include: Breaking the Joints, a group exhibition concerning the relationship between animation and the body at Sapieha Palace, Vilnius (2025); the group exhibition Drain the Öresund at Malmö Konsthall (2025); In the beginning was the deed!, an exhibition inspired by local histories of insurrectionary anarchism at the Galeria Arsenał in Białystok, Poland (2021); and Mercury, a visual essay curated in collaboration with the artist Simon Dybbroe Møller for the Tallinn Photomonth 2019 Biennial. They also participate in exhibitions with text-based and performative contributions, and lecture in art and educational contexts across Europe. They live in Kolonia Koplany, a small village near Białystok in eastern Poland.
the program of events for “12:15 Reading Room” is partially funded by
the Lithuanian Council for Culture
graphic identity by Matas Buckus
the texts will be provided, let's read and think together,
Post Brothers hopefully will return this autumn to continue this session
Post Brothers hopefully will return this autumn to continue this session
On April 25 at 5 p.m., we would like to invite you
to a meeting with Rab-Rab Press publisher Sezgin Boynik.
During this first visit to Lithuania, S. Boynik will present the latest books published by the press, including a children’s book published in 1982 by Dutch punk underground veteran Johannes van de Weert, “A Shot in the Factory: Workers into the Frame”, based on the 1973 Finnish film directed by Erkko Kivikoski or Egon Erwin Kisch’s 1946 text Karl Marx in Karlsbad reconstructs three consecutive summers in the spa town of Karlsbad (now Karlovy Vary in the Czech Republic) in 1874, 1875 and 1876.
Together, we will open books by Rab-Rab Press that are already available at the bookstore.
"The geography of Rab-Rab stretches from Finland – in Aleksandra Kollontai’s My Heart Belongs to the Finnish Poor, or Hjalmar Linder’s Bourgeois with a Heart, a book that broaches the still-taboo subject of the ‘White Terror’ that followed the suppression of the Finnish Revolution of 1918 – to Beijing, in The Conclusive Scene, a hair-raising account of Mao’s final meeting with the Red Guards in 1968, the notorious event in which Mao, upon hearing a student tell of the ‘black hand’ who had sent the city’s workers into battle against the guards, asserted that ‘the black hand is nobody else but me!’ Rab-Rab’s distinctive internationalism perhaps reflects the background of its publisher, Sezgin Boynik: now based in Helsinki, he studied in Istanbul and was born in Kosovo in 1977, raised in the dying years of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
Rab-Rab’s designs embody a distinct ethic of their own. The covers and layouts, by the Estonian graphic designer Ott Kagovere, evoke zine culture and post-punk design, without any ostentatious, kitsch tributes to the original sources – no David King-style neo-Constructivism here. Colours are limited, printing techniques are simple, and the publishers are always keen to let you know what the typeface is (in Journey to the Land of Movies, we’re told it’s Niina by Patrick Zavadskis, and Turist by Tüpokompanii)." – Owen Hatherley
The event will be held in English.
The program of events for “12:15 Reading Room” is partially funded by
the Lithuanian Council for Culture.
graphic identity by Matas Buckus
we are inviting you to the launch of the wind whistles,
a book for blind and sighted
a book for blind and sighted
published by 12:15
funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture
funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture
we are holding a special event in our 12:15 Reading Room
this Sunday (12 April) from 5 pm (perhaps until 7pm)
this Sunday (12 April) from 5 pm (perhaps until 7pm)
in 2022 we came across the book in the Bergen Art and Design Academy's Library.
Visualising sound on paper gave us the idea to create a book for blind and sighted people,
to share contemporary art with those those in need, to learn new / other languages,
to use our hands, not just our eyes, and to explore the unknown of imagination
Visualising sound on paper gave us the idea to create a book for blind and sighted people,
to share contemporary art with those those in need, to learn new / other languages,
to use our hands, not just our eyes, and to explore the unknown of imagination
despite all the difficulties we have faced during the making of this book, we have not managed to arrange a visit by CAConrad to Vilnius.
Hopefully, however, we will be able to celebrate this book with him in the near future.
For now, though, he will be represented by his book and his words, which have been translated into Braille for the first time!
Hopefully, however, we will be able to celebrate this book with him in the near future.
For now, though, he will be represented by his book and his words, which have been translated into Braille for the first time!
We hope that Antanas Gerlikas and Žygimantas J. Bėrontas will join us.
We are not sure about Birutė Stulgaitė. Joseph E. Yoakum is no longer with us, but we hope he will join us from beyond
We are not sure about Birutė Stulgaitė. Joseph E. Yoakum is no longer with us, but we hope he will join us from beyond
PLEASE note that our space is small and we can only accommodate
a limited number of visitors at the event.
a limited number of visitors at the event.
If you would like to attend, please register by sending us a direct message on Instagram or emailing us: [email protected]
reading session is back, this Saturday (4 of April) from 5 pm
this time Connor Manship will pick a book from us for us to read together
and a bit about why he has chosen the reading: "Sophia Al-Maria's Sad Sacks, drawn from ongoing thinking around Etel Adnan's The Arab Apocalypse and the question of which stories we tell — and when impossible, how."
Connor works with sculpture, installation, and video. They are normally based in London, but can currently be found in Vilnius.
Sad Sacks by Sophia Al-Maria's, published by Book Works (2019, second edition 2024)
Sad Sack is a book of collected writing by Sophia Al-Maria, taking feminist inspiration from Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1986 essay ‘The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction’; opposing ‘the linear, progressive, Time’s-(killing)-arrow mode of the Techno-Heroic.’ Encompassing more than a decade of work, Sad Sack tracks Al-Maria’s speculative journey as a writer, from the first seed of her ‘premature’ memoir, through the coining and subsequent critique of ‘Gulf Futurism’, towards experiments in gathering, containing, welling up and sucking dry.
the reading material will be provided, see you on Saturday
Friendship Forever
newspaper launches
March 12
from 7 pm
in Vilnius, at Draugų vardai
March 13
from 7 pm
in Kaunas, at Avietė
with Friendship Forever's editor Brigit Arop,
graphic designer Agnes Isablle Veevo
and contributors:
Agnė Jokšė
Aistė Marija Stankevičiūtė
Cloe Jancis
estoon_spioon
Gabija Pernavaitė
Gregor Kulla
Ieva Rojūtė & Morta Jonynaitė
Janina Sabaliauskaitė
Kris Lemsalu
Maria Izabella Lehtsaar
Naima Neidre
Saulė Noreikaitė
Twilight Collective
aka Eva Mahhov
Mia Tamme & Nadya Tjuška
Vaiva Grainytė
published by 12:15
funded by Lithuanian Council for Culture and
Cultural Endowment of Estonia
partners: Kaunas Artists' House, BLADR
Friendship Forever is a one of a kind newspaper that brings together a group of Estonian and Lithuanian artists who have been asked to reflect on contemporary friendship with new contributions or to re-present their old works. In this issue, among other things, you can take a look at friendship as a search for another self, navigate the journey of friendship guided by your star sign, recognize the discomfort of working in friendship, try to untangle the web of rumors, think of friendship as a currency, test your tolerance in the blurry area between friendship and romance, say goodbye to former friends, sail the sea of trust and spirituality with the compass of friendship, and more.
poster design by Agnes Isabelle Veevo
our next reading session comes
this Saturday - 28 February, starting at 17:00
Eduard took on the challenge and pleasure of choosing something to read from our collection, but what we admire is his creativity and the element of surprise. He didn't just select a book; he responded to it by bringing in other texts and thinkers.
Eduard: "St. Augustine's in an attempt to define time, asked himself: “But what is time? When asked, I know; when I try to explain, I no longer understand.” Is grasping time truly so difficult, or is it a manageable and concrete concept? When we say “I don't have time,” what do we really mean? What occurs when the hands stop moving, and clocks cease? In an imaginative exercise, we will explore these questions, possibly accepting that some answers are unreachable, and simply let time unfold. Starting with Lee Weng Choy’s book "Hours Accidental and Arbitrary: A Year of Writing Lonely,"
we will pass time reading Rosa Luxemburg's prison letters and some verses by Frank O'Hara, suggested by my friend Alexia Sarantopoulou."
Eduard Popescu lives and works between Vilnius and Italy. He graduated in Visual Arts from IUAV University of Venice, where he developed an artistic practice that weaves together visual research, performance, and curatorial projects. His work centers on the transformative potential of care practices, exploring how they can generate reflective and critically engaged dialogue within the field of visual arts.
until Saturday, copies of texts will be provided...
we are back with a new reading session this Saturday (10 January) from 5 pm!
for this gathering our reader Markas is back home and will be choosing what to read together
Markas: "it would be possible to present Kameelah's book ("Kameelah Janan Rasheed: I am not done yet") as a starting point and read one text she wrote in another publication about various holes in language, metaphorical holes, etc.? It's short, maybe two pages. And if there is time, we could read one of Sara Ahmed's writings about queer disorientation—it would be a session about holes and how they can be occupied and interpreted in different ways!"
markas fortunatas klisius is a researcher, learner, and curator from Vilnius, currently doing their PhD in partnership with Whitechapel Gallery and CSNI, London. markas is preoccupied with holes of all sorts, geotextiles, decaying waste infrastructures, and figuring out the best leek and potato soup recipe.
we are very pleased to invite you to an evening with choreographer
and artist Maija Hirvanen on Wednesday, 28 November at 7 pm.
Next week, she will be teaching at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, and she would like to meet the readers of our space. In our reading room / bookshop you can find two books created by Maija: Mycoscores / Choreospores and Practical Performance Magic (co-authored with Eva Neklyaeva).
As some of you may know, we have a specific collection of books created by dancers and choreographers, as well as publications connected to movement and performance. During this informal presentation / chat about Maija Hirvanen's publications, we will find out more about how they were created. What if, when a performance is described as “nothing short of magical,” it is not just a metaphor? And how can we explore the connections between fungal and human ways of being, particularly through movement and dance?
MAIJA HIRVANEN is a choreographer and performance maker based in Helsinki. Maija’s interests range from the relationship between art and different belief systems and ways of re-learning to questions of embodiment and the more-than-human in performance and choreography.
Her performances have been presented at e.g. Tanz im August/Hebbel am Ufer/Berlin, ImpulsTanz/Vienna, Sadler’s Wells/Lilian Baylis Studio/London, SPRING Festival/Utrecht, Seoul Performing Arts Festival, Rencontres chorégraphiques internationales de Seine-Saint-Denis and Dansens Hus/Stockholm, Zodiak, Kiasma, Baltic Circle Festival, Helsinki Festival and Moving in November Festival in Helsinki. She makes performances on stages and in places, writes, researches, and teaches.
let's move in books on Wednesday
portrait of Maija Hirvanen by Heidi Piiroinen
Linas Spurga Jr.
12:15 Reading Room pristatymas
„Kursyvo kaligrafijos pagrindai“
The Basics of Italic Calligraphy
11 20, 18:00
Lapkričio 20 d. 18.00 kaligrafas ir grafikos dizaineris Linas Spurga jaun. pristatys savo kuriamo leidinio „Kursyvo kaligrafijos pagrindai“ apmatus. Sukurti knygą paskatino ne tik sukaupta patirtis, nuo 2015 metų vedant kaligrafijos kūrybinės dirbtuvės, bet ir mokomųjų kaligrafijos, tipografijos bei šrifto dizaino leidinių trūkumas lietuvių kalba. Susitikimo metu L. Spurga papasakos apie kursyvinio šrifto atsiradimą ir paplitimą XV a., populiarumą šiandien, pristatys mokomojo leidinio kūrimo eigą ir parodys keletą tarpukario laikų dailyraščio vadovėlių.
LINAS SPURGA (jaunesnysis) užsiima netradiciniu, eksperimentiniu kaligrafiniu rašymu, neįprastų įrankių naudojimu, domisi kaligrafijos istorija ir filosofija, rengia parodas („Raidės forma“ (2022), „Grafomanija“ (2023)), nuo 2015 m. veda kūrybines dirbtuves. 2017–2022 m. dirbo Vilniaus dizaino kolegijoje, kurioje nuo 2019 m. dėstė Tipografiją ir šriftą. 2019–2020 m. ir nuo 2024 m. veda kassavaitinius kaligrafijos kursus „Brūkšt“. Taip pat RARA leidyklos dizaineris, kuria grafinį dizainą „Skalvijos“ kino centro ir Meno Avilio renginiams, Vilniaus dokumentinių filmų festivaliui.
„Kursyvo kaligrafijos pagrindų“ sukūrimą ir leidybą remia Lietuvos kultūros taryba.
EN
At 6 PM November 20 calligrapher and graphic designer Linas Spurga Jr. will present his upcoming publication, The Basics of Italic Calligraphy. Motivation for this book came from leading calligraphy workshops since 2015 and by the lack of educational publications on calligraphy, typography, and type design in the Lithuanian language. During the meeting, L. Spurga will talk about the emergence and spread of Italic script in the 15th century, its popularity today, he will also present the process of creating this manual, and show several interwar-era calligraphy textbooks.
LINAS SPURGA Jr. is engaged in unconventional, experimental calligraphic writing. He uses unusual writing tools and is interested in the history and philosophy of calligraphy, organises exhibitions (The Shape of a Letter (2022), Graphomania (2023)), and has been leading creative workshops since 2015. From 2017 to 2022 he worked at Vilnius College of Design, where he taught Typography and Type Design from 2019. From 2019 to 2020 and since 2024 he has been teaching weekly calligraphy classes. He is a designer at RARA Publishing House and creates visual identities for events at the Skalvija Cinema Center and Meno Avilys, as well as for the Vilnius Documentary Film Festival.
The creation and publication of The Basics of Italic Calligraphy
is supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.
is supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.
THE LANGUAGE (LT OR EN) OF THE EVENT WILL DEPEND ON THE PARTICIPANTS ATTENDING THE EVENT
this Sunday (26 October) at 17:00 we will gather for a reading together, this time Gintautė Siniakovaitė has chosen from what she could find in our space:
one text is from Al Hayya Issue #4 | Dreams of Liberation
by Malik Irtiza "Anything Can Be a Weapon"
and the second one is from the magazine How To Sleep Faster #15 Private "Public Pleasure: Notes on the Privatisation of Peace, Pleasure & Politics in the Public Realm" by Jack Clarke & Ruth Plston
Gintautė Siniakovaitė is a young artist (studying graphic art at the Vilnius Academy of Arts). She is interested in various forms of publication and text, and is fascinated by topics related to the use of public spaces, as well as the internal and external states of people in a rapidly changing world.
on Sunday 12th October from 5 pm, we would like to invite you to meet Swedish (Sweden based) artists / bookmakers through their books / publications
during the event you will have the chance to see the books that we received as the gifts during our visit to Stockholm this summer, from Marti Manen (INDEX), Max Ronnersjö (Antics gallery), OEI magazine (Jonas (J) Magnusson and Cecilia Grönberg), and Otsium Books (Oskar Laurin) as well as some special books gathered from bookshops and museums in Stockholm
some of these books will become part of the reading room,
while others, including rare titles,
will be added to the 12:15 private collection
there will be a variety of books and publications in different formats, including the largest photography book in our collection, artists' books, exhibition catalogues, calendars, magazines, poetry books, cassettes and books that can be /become... many things
the next reading session
this Sunday (31 08) from 17:00
this time Oscar and Luisa found reading material on our shelves, it's fascinating to see how they make their choices and respond to each other, Oscar is interested in translation, experimentation and openness, while Luisa chose a script to read with movement and dance in the language, as well as a bit of humour, they are both very thoughtful about the moment of reading, reading within the group, so the selected texts are formed based for the experience of reading in the group
the texts for this session are:
The Loving Tongue by Kira Josefsson & Jacqui Cornetta
from Erotic Review magazine issue 2
Kira Josefsson is a writer, editor and translator working between Swedish and English. Her work has been shortlisted for the International Booker Prize and the Bernard Shaw Prize. She lives in Queens, New York, and writes on US events and politics in the Swedish press.
Jacqui Cornetta is an interdisciplinary artist, translator and educator. Their writing and translations from Spanish have appeared in The Offing, Circumference, Words Without Borders, Lost & Found, Puerto Rico Review, LARB... She performs music as Settimo Cielo and teaches at Queens College CUNY.
D.I.E. Now
The True Story of John Webber and His Endless Struggle with the Table of Content
by KEREN CYTTER
Published on the occasion of the performance of Show Real Drama, this monographic publication concentrates on a performance Keren Cytter developed for If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to be Part of Your Revolution’s edition on Masquerade (2008–10). The publication focuses both on the development of this performance and on the working process within D.I.E. Now, the dance company that was established as a result of Cytter’s collaboration with the performers.
published by If I Can't Dance
Oscar Mathieu le Bussy is a transdisciplinary art worker based in Brussels, currently in Vilnius for Rupert’s Alternative Education Programme. He likes dogs, Camp, and making soup for many people.
Luisa Berghammer is a visual artist currently based in Vienna. At the moment she is in Vilnius to participate in Rupert’s Alternative Education Programme. Luisa likes doubt, scripts and names.
until Sunday, copies of texts will be provided...
Saturday (2 August) from 17:00
we will have a reading session, during our last meeting we came up with the idea of giving participants the chance to pick a book/publication/text to read at the next session, hopefully we will create a chain method, one reading inspiring another reading, some texts reflecting on other, maybe even one day reading from images or books without the text :)
Charles and Charline have picked some texts
for us to read on Saturday
I’m perfecting my body but I can’t seem to change my lonely life
by Samuel Brzeski
Risograph printed publication comprised of poetic compositions of texts sourced from various online forums. All of the texts contain variations on the phrase ‘I just can’t’. The texts have been recomposed into a rambling poetics of the continual ‘I’, presenting an articulation of the collective consciousness of certain corners of internet culture.
2021, published by TEXST
Coming to Writing (1976)
by Hélène Cixous
Of Helene Cixous's many and diverse writings, few have been translated into English. Cixous is known for her work on sexual difference and its relations to literary text. Here she explores the problematics of a "feminine" mode of writing, basing her method on the premise that differences between the sexes - viewed as a paradigm for all difference, which is the organizing principle behind identity and meaning - manifest themselves, write themselves, in texts.
2024, published by Cutt Press
Charles de Agustin is an artist, educator, and organizer from the US, currently in Vilnius for Rupert’s Alternative Education Programme. July, for him, was characterized by oscillations between despair and renewal. In August, Charles is teaching a course titled “Necrophilanthropy” at the School of Making Thinking.
Charline Gdalia is an artist and curator based in Germany, but right now in Vilnius for some months as part of the AEP in Rupert. She makes sometimes films, sometimes writes, sometimes cooks, sometimes organizes stuff, and occasionally reads too !
printed texts will be available, see you on Saturday
this Sunday (6 July) from 17:00, we will hold a reading session before a two-week break for a research trip. We will be closed during this time.
This time, we have picked up the latest editions for our bookshop from our friends BOM DIA BOA TARDE BOA NOITE - Corals by Natalie Häusler (Berlin based artist and poet).
Corals is a physical environment as well as a multilingual poem (English, German, French) written over a period of one-and-a-half years. Initially, the poem is situated in and around the sea. The underwater world gradually collapses and merges at times with virtual reality. Corals is an attempt to create a poem that acts like a living organism.
“‘Sex,’ writes Berlin based artist and poet Natalie Häusler in her book-length poem Corals, ‘is the ecology of the poem.’ Or put differently, a poem can only exist in the relationships between bodies – in the eroticism of being-together that is continually formed and transformed through language […] The poem itself plays with its homophone ‘choral,’ ebbing and flowing in various directions, using saturated imagery and linguistic shifts.” (Matthew Rana)
And the second book - "hatefuck the reader" by Penny Goring, published by Arcadia Missa.
“This book is about damage and violence, about the ramifications of channeling intensity at all costs. It is a text that is utterly compelling, that you tumble into and cannot escape from. I fucking loved it.” — Dodie Bellamy
Pijus Sadauskas, Ugnius Bagdonavičius, Karl-Christoph Rebane, Hedi Jaansoo, Kipras Štreimikis, Gedimina Šalkauskaitė, Gediminas Sass
