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“A friend wanted to produce his own radio show on New Year’s Eve in Vilnius while I wanted to sit at an ATM and watch Litas be exchanged for the Euro. I suggested we do both; I would sit in a car outside of an ATM and watch the currency transfer while I listened on the radio to the show he would broadcast. Instead, we played Detroit techno and Chicago house music in the basement of a Mexican restaurant where our other friend was working in the kitchen. The next day, the Euro was being nervously but precisely used throughout the city, and a coffee that might have cost 4 Litas was now exactly 1.16 Euro. I happened to have a pocket full of Litas remaining and tried to purchase one such coffee but was told by the bartender that I had to pay in Euros (even though we were supposed to be able to pay with Litas until January 15th). I obliged and after my coffee I went to use the toilet. As I unzipped my jacket, the pocket filled with Lita coins fell into the toilet. I had heard stories of people accidentally swallowing coins and passing them without much trouble, so I imagined the plumbing as an intestine of sorts that would cope equally well with the objects. After flushing cautiously, the coins clogged the toilet completely and it overflowed. I had planned to come back to this particular Kavine with a friend because of their reasonably priced dumplings, but feared that if I ever returned, the bartender would assume I had flushed the now defunct currency down the toilet intentionally. There is also a rumor going around that all of the coins will be collected and used to make a large sculpture.”

 

 

artist biography

 

 

Bastis_Foyer_install_01

 

 

 

Bastis_Foyer_install_02

Waiting room, 2015, borrowed chairs

 

 

Bastis_Foyer_sleep_03

When you don’t find what you’re looking for, sleep (Gemini Bauce), 2015, vinyl padding, Helix aspersa snails

 

 

Bastis_Foyer_sleep_04

When you don’t find what you’re looking for, sleep (Gemini Bauce), 2015, vinyl padding, Helix aspersa snails

 

 

Bastis_Foyer_sleep_05

When you don’t find what you’re looking for, sleep (Gemini Bauce), 2015, vinyl padding, Helix asperse snails (detail view)

 

 

Bastis_Foyer_sleep_06

When you don’t find what you’re looking for, sleep (Gemini Bauce), 2015, vinyl padding, Helix asperse snails (detail view)

 

 

Bastis_Foyer_install_07

 

 

 

Bastis_Foyer_install_08

 

 

 

Bastis_Foyer_install_09

 

 

 

Bastis_Foyer_3become1_10

3 become 1 and so on and so forth, 2014, 16 mm film transferred to digital, 2:38 seconds (loop), edition of 3 and 1 artist proof

 

 

Bastis_Foyer_3become1_11

3 become 1 and so on and so forth, 2014, 16 mm film transferred to digital, 2:38 seconds (loop), edition of 3 and 1 artist proof (alternate view)

 

 

Bastis_Foyer_3become1_12

3 become 1 and so on and so forth, 2014, 16 mm film transferred to digital, 2:38 seconds (loop), edition of 3 and 1 artist proof (alternate view)

 

Bastis_Foyer_install_13