We rely on systems we hardly notice, until the lights go out or the network fails. But in those moments, another kind of knowledge arises: DIY solutions, forgotten analog technologies, and collective ways of making and being.

 

Off-Grid collects stories of protest infrastructures assembled in neighborhood yards and encrypted Telegram chats, internet cables stretched between apartment blocks, DIY practices, attempts to build a toaster from scratch, and a self-sustaining research capsule designed to operate for up to 120 days in isolation. This book moves across rural art institutions, repurposed power plants, exhibitions curated within forests and farmlands, and the early digital networks of the 1990s to explore what autonomy can mean in a world built on fragile, interconnected systems—and how much room for maneuver remains within them.

 

Editor: Katažyna Jankovska

Graphic design: Ringailė Demšytė

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With contributions from: Andreas Broeckmann, Lizaveta German, Garnet Hertz, Adelina Luft, Mari-Liis Rebane, Antonina Stebur, Timo Toots, Helen Turner, and Raluca Voinea.

Featuring artworks by: Tekla Aslanishvili, Cristina Cochior, Marko Peljhan, Thomas Thwaites
 

This publication is the outcome of the Alex Adriaansens Residency 2025 at V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media​

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​If you are in Lithuania and would like to get a copy, please send an email to kajankovska@gmail.com