CONTENTS Editorial Jonas Zakaitis Letter to the Editor Raimundas Malasauskas Interview Jonas Zakaitis talks with Graham Harman Eastward Asymptote Snowden Snowden Nose of a Figure Gintaras Didziapetris

CONTENTS: Antanas Gerlikas introduces some of the words An afternoon at Algirdas Šeskus and Milda Šeškuviene’s with Aurime Aleksandraviciute, Gintaras Didžiapetris, Raimundas Malašauskas, Elena Narbutaite and Jonas Žakaitis Jonas Žakaitis talks with Ron Eglash Chris Fitzpatrick talks with Francis Heylighen Elena Narbutaite’s main idea CONTRIBUTORS TO THIS ISSUE: Gintaras Didžiapetris is an artist based in Vilnius, Lithuania. Ron Eglash is a cyberneticist and ethno-mathematician based in New York, US. Chris Fitzpatrick is a curator and director of Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, Belgium. Antanas Gerlikas is an artist based in Vilnius, Lithuania. Francis Heylighen is a cyberneticist based in Brussels, Belgium. Raimundas Malašauskas is a curator based in Brussels, Belgium. Elena Narbutaite is an artist ...

Shifter’s eighteenth issue gathers conversations and interviews between various cultural practitioners that elaborate on the subject of intention. To intend is to have a conception of the future. To direct and extend attention to a moment that is yet to arrive. To construct a contingent model of the future, while negotiating and adjusting it at any given moment against countless uncertainties, thus providing the greatest possible chance of this future’s arrival. To reflect upon an action and determine its intention is then to trace the arc of this willed movement – looking back, culling through layers of events, interactions, and gestures, ...

As in one of those sentences that starts with a new subject and is followed by composing two parts that are familiar (“Kiwi: strawberry meets gooseberry,” for example), we may be in search of some new character here. Not necessarily entirely composed of existing parts, though. Roosevelt calls. “President Roosevelt?!?” Carolyn jumps up. “Of course, President Roosevelt if you’re Sally Rand!” Dixie pipes up. The phone is blue. The same one that Dixie fell on a floor with in 1962 when Marilyn died. “I fell with a blue phone. When I woke up, people were applauding me.” This is a scene ...

People sometimes get irritated if you ask them the same question again, especially if it happens in the same conversation. Yet sometimes they provide different answers immediately, or let’s say two minutes after the first (think of the Oracle in The Matrix, or Bill Clinton during his trial). However, when there are forty years in between two identical questions, there’s a big chance of getting the same answer. This does not a priori mean that nothing has changed or that things have remained the same. The same answer could mirror a totally different fold of an arrival from the previous ...

Days after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Lithuanian curator and writer Raimundas Malašauskas resigned as curator of the Russian Pavilion at the 59th Venice Bienniale, along with participating artists Alexandra Sukhareva and Kirill Savchenkov, citing the war as “politically and emotionally unbearable.” Using his letter of resignation, which Malašauskas posted to Instagram on February 27th, Lauren Wetmore interviews him about what led to this decision—“I started from my experience of being in the Empire and not wanting to go back”—and the complexities of its reception within different networks of impact across the international art world, the Russian political and cultural regime, ...