Breaking the Joints

November 22, 2025

‘Breaking the Joints’: the Gathering
Guest lecture and program
as part of Breaking the Joints, group exhibition featuring Gabrielė Adomaitytė, Ed Atkins, Martin Arnold, Catherine Biocca, Aline Bouvy, Barry Doupé, Peter Frederiksen, Özgür Kar, Tomasz Kowalski, Oliver Laric, Ebecho Muslimova, Nadia Naveau, Agnieszka Polska, Jani Ruscica, Mateusz Sadowski, Gary Simmons, Viktor Timofeev, Theo Triantafyllidis

Curated by Post Brothers, Edgaras Gerasimovičius, and Povilas Gumbis

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Sapieha Palace invites you to The Gathering of the ‘Breaking the Joints’ exhibition — a session of four presentations in which the exhibition’s curator Post Brothers, artists Viktor Timofeev and Theo Triantafyllidis, and animation researcher and curator Elizaveta Alexandrovna Shneyderman will present their creative and scholarly work, along with their recent projects.

Elizaveta Alexandrovna Shneyderman’s presentation will discuss the status of contemporary images, with specific attention paid to animation, the history of rotoscoping, and the intrapsychic influence(s) of animated/cartoon violence. Our collective tracking and understanding of images—specifically, animated, “operationalized” images—has endured a paradigm shift. We will consider the laborer behind the animated “AI” image of now against the laborer of the early 21st century.

Is there a shared basis for certain pervasive imaging strategies, and if so, how do they influence the receiver and consequently describe what the body contains, or can contain? For example: what is behind the fantasy and logic of cartoon physics, where we internalize that to bend but not break, or to be destroyed and yet remain intact, is a profoundly unachievable relation to the world.