Public lecture about the visual identity of subcultures in photography

The Vytautas Kavolis Transdisciplinary Research Institute of Vytautas the Great University (VDU) invites members of the public and academic community to a public lecture – a meeting with photographer doc. Dr. Tom Pabedinski. The meeting will be devoted to discussing the meaning of the visual identity of subcultures based on its representation in photography. The event will take place on April 11, at 5 p.m., at the Faculty of Arts of VMU (Muitinės st. 7, 207 a.).

In the first part of the meeting, Dr. T. Pabedinskas will give a lecture „Rock marches in photography: rock subculture and political changes“. After the lecture, we will invite you for a coffee break and a short discussion, and at 6 p.m. Dr. T. Pabedinskas will present it together with anthropologist dr. The artistic-research project “Subculture” implemented by Rasa Pranskevičiūte-Amoson. Projections of photographs created during this project will be shown, and the book “Subculture” will be available.

We invite you to register for the event. All registered participants will receive a reminder a few days before the event. You can find the registration form here.

Program of the event:

17:00 – dr. Tomas Pabedinskas lecture “Rock marches in photography: rock subculture and political changes”.

17:45 – coffee break.

18:00 – presentation of the artistic-research project “Subculture”.

The event will be moderated by the lecturer of the Department of Contemporary Arts of the VMU Faculty of Arts, prof. Dr. Rimantas Plunge.

About the lecturer. Doc. Dr. Tomas Pabedinskas is a photographer, photography theorist, critic and curator. His academic interests include creative photography and interdisciplinary contemporary art. He is the author of two monographs on contemporary Lithuanian photography (“Contemporary Lithuanian Photography. Relationship between the Image and the Identity of a Person”, 2010; “Žmogus Lietuvos fotografijaje. Change of attitudes at the turn of the 20th and 21st centuries”, 2010). The photographer regularly publishes scientific and critical articles, curates exhibitions, has organized solo exhibitions and participated in group exhibitions in Lithuania and abroad. He currently holds the position of docent at the Department of Contemporary Arts of Vytautas Magnus University.

We inform you that the event may be filmed and/or photographed and you may be seen in the photos or videos of the event, which may be published in various media.

The public lecture is one of the activities of the project “Strengthening of R&D Activities of the Transdisciplinary Institute of Social and Human Sciences of Vytautas Kavolis (SOCMTEP)”. The project is financed by the Lithuanian Science Council and the Ministry of Education, Science and Sports of the Republic of Lithuania, contract no. S-A-UEI-23-13 (12/27/2023). Funding program – “University Excellence Initiative” (No. V-940).