Dalija Kaukėnaitė and Jenna Jauhiainen
Saturday 7 November, 5–7 pm
Hopecore in Dialogue w/ Jenna Jauhiainen
Public program of hopecore, solo show by Dalija Kaukėnaitė
Performative conversation & meme workshop
As part of Dalija Kaukėnaitė’s solo exhibition hopecore, curated by Ginevra Ludovici, 10 documents presents Hopecore in Dialogue w/ Jenna Jauhiainen, a performative conversation and participatory meme workshop exploring sincerity, human connection, and memetic communication within contemporary online culture.
Starting from the research behind hopecore, Dalija Kaukėnaitė and Jenna Jauhiainen will reflect on algorithmically mediated experience, neosincerity, internet culture, and hope in its different forms. The conversation will consider the ways in which memes operate not only as humour, but also as accessible forms of communication through which emotions, ideas, and shared experiences circulate across online communities.
Can memes create forms of connection? Can sincerity survive the meme format? And is hopecore itself a meme?
The conversation will be followed by a participatory meme workshop, inviting the audience to create and share their own memes.
No previous experience is needed. Just bring yourself and your phone.
Participation in the event is for free.
hopecore is part of the Lithuanian Culture in Italy 2025–2026 program. The Lithuanian Culture in Italy 2025–2026 program is implemented by the Lithuanian Culture Institute and the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in the Italian Republic.
Dalija Kaukėnaitė is a visual artist currently based in Rome. With a background in graphic design and art direction, her practice emerges from the observation of everyday life, whose meanings she reworks through visual research. Her work moves fluidly across different media, guided more by concept and context than by form. She has exhibited at Circolo Scandinavo, COSMO Trastevere, Spazio Y, AWAI, and PAV – Parco Arte Vivente, and has participated in urban display projects such as Oripeau in Nantes and Montréal.
Jenna Jauhiainen is a post-disciplinary artist working project-based and predominantly collaboratively across media, particularly within media art, performance, and video. She is a founding member of Meme School in Finland and has been engaged in artistic research around memes for over fifteen years. Recurring themes in her practice include human rights and social justice, internet culture and memetics, artificial intelligence, cultural resilience, and partying in its various forms. Her work moves between critical inquiry and playfulness. She is based between Helsinki and Rome.
