- City
- Klaipeda, Lithuania
- Year
- 2016
Julijonas Urbonas is an artist, designer, researcher, engineer, founder of Lithuanian Space Agency
For almost a decade, working between critical design, amusement park engineering, performative architecture, choreography, kinetic art and sci-fi, Urbonas has been developing various critical tools of negotiating gravity: from a killer roller coaster to an artificial asteroid made up entirely of human bodies. In these projects, he coined the term gravitational aesthetics, an artistic approach exploiting the means of manipulating gravity to create experiences that push the body and imagination to its extremes.
Informed by postphenomenology, space medicine, particle physics, outer space anthropology, extro-disciplinarity, he has also established – by writing, researching and making – unique creative methodologies under such names as vehicular poetics and design choreography. Such an establishment has been shown and discussed in a wide diversity of venues: art, design, architecture biennials, academic and non-academic publications, TV and Radio shows.
In 2016, the Lithuanian artist spent one month in residency at CERN as part of the former Accelerate programme, supported by Rupert, Centre for Art and Education in Vilnius, Lithuania.
