INTEGRAL \ 2021 P2 by LT.art Vienna
-by Justina Špeirokaité (Curator at Improper Walls)
OCTOBER 5, 19:30
VIOLIN / ACCORDION / ELECTRONIC
contemporary - classical music concert
performers:
Eglė Ona Bartkevičiūtė – accordion
Danielė Brekytė – violin
Elena Sverdiolaitė – soprano
Bence Temesvári – cello
Elisabeth Müller – accordion
Lukas Lützow – live sound & electronics
KONZILSGEDÄCHTNISKIRCHE LAINZ-SPEISING
Kardinal-König-Platz 3, 1130 Wien
(limited seats available, please register veronika.zacherl@a1.net or 0699 11441567)
The program includes pieces by Elena Šataitė-Survilienė (world premiere), Eimold, Reich, Dinescu, Scarlatti, Galliano, Šenderovas, Lithuanian folk songs and improvisations.
OCTOBER 9, 19:30
VIRGIN CONCEPTIONS
a theater performance
BLÜTENGASSE9
Blütengasse 9, 1030 Wien
(limited seats available, please register: contact@ltartvienna.com)
free entrance
Apeiron Theatre's premiere of “Virgin Conceptions” was inspired by a recent article in the international press about a female shark that had given birth in the Cala Gonone aquarium on the island of Sardinia, where she had lived for more than ten years with her only companion, a female shark of the same species.
According to the researchers, the phenomenon of parthenogenesis occurs in animal species that have a very high mortality rate or have had difficulty finding a mate of the opposite sex, such as aphids, bees, ants, spindles, etc.
The creators of the performance ask the question "what happens when nothing is born?" in a broader sense - when ideas, passion, children, revolutions, new life forms are not born? But at the same time - can it be that something is born when nothing is born?
The actors have chosen a white sheet of paper as their main instrument - a kind of tabula rasa, with plenty of space for something to be born, but here a mother of five children interjects: "You know, it will be very difficult to give birth on A4, because the legs will creep out of the edges anyway".
Directed by Eglė Kazickaitė and Greta Gudelytė
Actors: Ričardas Bartašius, Greta Gudelytė, Eglė Kazickaitė.
Costume designer: Erika Jankauskaitė
Music by Grid707
apeirontheatre.net
OCTOBER 14, 20:30
CINEMATIC CONNECTIONS
Lithuanian Shorts
AMMU (dir. Karolina Nadzeikaitė), IEVA (dir. Domas Petronis, Vytautas Plukas), THE BEARERS OF MEMORIES (dir. Miglė Križinauskaitė-Bernotienė), MY BIRTH (dir. Eglė Davidavičė), ONE LIFE (dir. Marija Stonytė), COMMUNITY GARDENS (dir. Vytautas Katkus) and more.
ADMIRAL KINO
Burggasse 119, 1070 Wien
tickets: www.admiralkino.at
The program “Lithuanian Shorts: Cinematic Connections” holds 6 films with great artistic and cinematic effort, and presents a spectrum of subjects associated with interpersonal-social environment-technology relationships. This program will guide you through the world of the heartbroken, artificial or very distant people, the world of nature full of fear and unfairness.
Films of the program have already been successfully presented at national and international film festivals and won numerous awards.
The selection is curated by the Lithuanian Short Film Agency “Lithuanian Shorts”.
Total duration: 83 min.
www.lithuanianshorts.com
Community Gardens (dir. Vytautas Katkus, 2019)
OCTOBER 16, 20:00
SATELLITES OF THE SELF
an interactive audiovisual performance
Raimonda Žiūkaitė (sound, performance), Vera Sebert (live video)
IMPROPER WALLS
Reindorfgasse 42, 1150 Wien
(limited seats available, please register: contact@ltartvienna.com)
free entrance
The growth of identity is a constantly dynamic process, which is formed by external influences on the self. Thereby the self-reflection by digital and social media plays an increasingly important role.
On our screens, we are used to seeing the fragments of a fast-paced and volatile construct. Characters are optimized, transformed and flattened. How can this selective and fragmented image of the self get more complex and comprehensive, so that it goes together with the fluid and procedural character of human identity?
This question is the starting point for a sound-based performance. The virtual staging of identity is compressed, scaled, transformed and critically questioned in a generative setting: The movement and the voice of the performer are captured by a webcam and a microphone and represented in a live stream. Thereby the stream’s video image is transformed depending on the input of the performer's voice. The result is a distorted duplication of the performer, which is live projected back on her body.
Like this a constant interactive process between the real performer and her virtual double is provoked, that can be directly comprehended by viewers, who themselves get part of the process for example by getting captured by a camera movement.
By integrating the viewers into the live stream the border between watching and being watched is dissolving. In our performance, the video reacts to the pitch of the voice and according to this project's particular images. Going further, we can reach the point where not a human voice at all, but some wildly transformed sounds would come out from the performer’s mouth, thus achieving not only depersonalization but even dehumanization of the performer.
LT.art Vienna – is a series of events that presents Lithuanian artists and their works in Vienna, and promotes artistic exchange between Austria and Lithuania.
www.ltartvienna.com