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Last autumn, the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius announced an open call to participate in a group exhibition. The open call presented an opportunity to reflect upon the needs of the art field along with its community, and to explore new ways of working together. 鈥淲e would like to make an experiment 鈥� to invite anyone and everyone to propose ideas, projects, events and processes,鈥� the curators wrote in the invitation; anything that 鈥渟eems important, interesting to share or to experience with others.鈥�

More than 200 people from various countries responded to the invitation, among them not just professional artists; a small infinity which for the last couple of months have been testing the limits of the CAC. We are very grateful for such an overwhelming response; collectively, the proposals contributed a diverse range of ideas, projects and points of view and each was considered, discussed and thus in some way accepted. Some of the proposals will be implemented and presented in the future or otherwise woven into the fabric of the CAC鈥檚 future activities. Meanwhile, several dozen artists, curators and collectives will feature in the exhibition 鈥楬ead With Many Thoughts鈥�.

The exhibition is a polyvocal reflection on time, endings, beginnings, transition and change. It offers no single vision for the future 鈥� neither hopeful nor threatening 鈥� nor one direction of movement: the present time is marked by a range of simultaneous trajectories and multiple choices. Knowing what exactly our actions will change is not always possible; nevertheless, it is important and no less interesting to look out for what is unfolding in front of us, and to act. If the exhibition does not lie, it鈥檚 the gentle attentiveness, togetherness and care that help us face the uncertainty; and one becomes the necessary 鈥済lue鈥� by becoming support, springboard and adventure for oneself and for others.