RAVE NATION. Dancing to the Sounds of Freedom. 1992–2004. Informacinis leidinys

Rave nation is not exactly an exhibition about parties. Or rather, not merely about parties.
In fact, it is an archive and a cartography of the turning point at which rave emerged as a form of culture, a vehicle of resistance, escape and (trans)formation. This movement is presented in the exhibition solely through the small fragments – flyers, photographs and archival video snippets – left behind in the wake of an intense ‘battle’ on the dance floor.
In the West, rave culture originated as an illicit infrastructure of collective ecstasy and post-industrial mourning or dissatisfaction with life. But in Lithuania, between 1992 and 2004, it mutated into something else entirely: a form of rave carrying the imprint of local history and political tensions, along with the entirely novel taste of hard-won freedom.