Edvardas Sumila

It May Be the Last Time: Lithuanian Art and Culture Resisting a Takeover at the Height of Hybrid Warfare - Notes - e-flux Edvardas Šumila on recent protests in Lithuania.

What is at stake is more than just a ministry -- it's whether culture becomes a tool for dismantling or a vehicle for resistance. The parallels with Slovakia and Georgia are clear -- and the warning signs are urgent. #kulturosprotestas

07.10.2025 06:36 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Cultural Community’s Protest. Conversation with Arūnas Gelūnas and Gintautė Žemaitytė - Echo Gone Wrong While awaiting the warning strike and in response to recent political developments in Lithuania, philosopher and contemporary art curator Edvardas Šumila met with members of the initiating group of th...

Dear friends and allies abroad,
I hope this sheds some light on the current state of Lithuanian politics and the cultural workers who have united to resist the transfer of the Ministry of Culture to the populist Nemuno Aušra party.

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#kulturosprotestas

03.10.2025 07:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The poster of the seminar event about education and milieu, with the date of March 24, 2025.

Even if "the whole is the false", as Adorno's famous phrase (in fact Hegel's inversion) says, we are very much emtangled -- through the milieu, it seems possible to speak somehow, if only seemingly, through the negative that has come to define everything.

19.03.2025 19:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Back to teaching again, Media arts, love the auditorium.

12.02.2025 10:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Indeed

11.02.2025 15:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Bullets in the head. A monument to the poet Taras Shevchenko shot by occupiers in Borodyanka, Kyiv region; https://taras-shevchenko.storinka.org/

The russians are destroying Ukrainian textbooks but leaving monuments to Lesya Ukrainka and Taras Shevchenko—because later, they’ll label them as russian. A thought from #MykolaRiabchuk 's lecture. #russiancolonization

11.02.2025 13:05 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Weekly favs w/ Eglė, Kotryna & Edvardas Šumila - Radio Vilnius –

Had a nice time @ radio vilnius-- talking about visual art criticism awards. Listen to me from 1.14.00

11.02.2025 15:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Tarp politikos bernaičių vėl populiarėja nuo Brazausko laikų kiek pridususi mada stumti bereikalingos ir gamtai žalingalos monumentaliosios infrastruktūros idėjas. Benkunskas Nerį nori asfaltuot, Neringos meras - Kuršių marias

11.02.2025 12:27 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0

Trump is unleashing sadism upon the world. But we cannot get overwhelmed | Judith Butler Those who celebrate his defiance and sadism are as claimed by his logic as those who are paralyzed with outrage

Let this be my first post here; though I wish I could stay within the personal— the call to not get overwhelmed and also to find our passion against what this onslaught of exhiliration brought about is ever important.

09.02.2025 07:58 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

O kaune kur?:)

08.02.2025 08:06 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0