PODCAST
In July a journalist’s collective from Lithuania called NARA came to Vienna to research and understand the city's successful and complex social housing system. They are creating a podcast episode for which they have talked to experts and people living in different districts and delved into the ways that they use a variety of models that the system provides: from the apartment block syndicate to communal gardening. The episode will explore the interconnection between urbanism, nature, and communities inhabiting them.
The podcast will be published on http://nara.lt/en platform.
SATELLITES OF THE SELF
An interactive audiovisual performance
The growth of an 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 a human identity?
This question is the starting point for a sound based performance. The virtual staging of identity is compressed, scaled, trans-formed 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.
Tickets: free entrance
(limited seats available, please register: contact@ltartvienna.com)
LITHUANIAN SHORTS: CINEMATIC CONNECTIONS
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 Lithuanian Short Film Agency “Lithuanian Shorts”.
Total duration: 83 min.
Tickets: ADMIRAL KINO
AMMU
dir. Karolina Nadzeikaitė
fiction, 2021, 24’
In the near future, after another painful break-up, a young woman named Alex applies to an institution where people are taught to live in solitude. During one of the training phases, Alex is introduced to a young employee named Kaste, whom she becomes very close with. However, the essence of the training is to unexpectedly and firmly develop the ability to live alone.
IEVA
Dir. Domas Petronis, Vytautas Plukas
fiction, 2021, 14’
THE BEARERS OF MEMORIES
Dir. Miglė Križinauskaitė-Bernotienė
experimental, 2020, 13 ‘
With every moment – one more memory. But memory sometimes goes blind and what is left becomes hazy.
MY BIRTH
Dir. Eglė Davidavičė
animation, 2017, 3 min.
“My Birth” is a confrontation with the fear of nocturnal forests, its dwellers and deep darkness.
ONE LIFE
Dir. Marija Stonytė
documentary, 2019, 19’
On a private farm, butterflies are raised only to be sold as props for a classical concert performance. We follow one of these fragile creatures on its short-lived journey to the music hall as it struggles to survive ‘civilization’.
COMMUNITY GARDENS
Dir. Vytautas Katkus
Fiction, 2019, 15’
It is a story about a cold relationship between a father and his son. Their bond, plagued by indifference, disintegrates completely.
VIRGIN CONCEPTIONS
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
Tickets: free entrance
(limited seats available, please register: contact@ltartvienna.com)
Apeiron Theater
is a professional theatre founded in 2012 by two young directors Eglė Kazickaitė and Greta Gudelytė.
The concept of “apeiron” although difficult to understand, can, for many, become the key point entering the world of Apeiron's theatrical performances. These performances include elements of post-dramatic, surreal, absurd, social grotesque, other theatrical styles and open up a wide field of interpretations (as intertextual dramaturgy practically does not set any boundaries for perception). Apeiron is an indefinite limitless being. According to the Greek philosopher Anaksimander, the apeiron is an eternal, all-encompassing, all-controlling origin that has no beginning and is endless, which itself does not change, only its forms varies.
The Apeiron Theater avoids monotony, consistency of time and action, too many contexts, links with philosophical concepts, poetry, but always gives priority to thought. The audience plays very important role and is understood as the co-author of the performance, which is also encouraged to see, interpret or understand the performance in its own way.
Creators of the Apeiron Theater analyzing society in psychological, sociological aspects, observing the reactions of the spectator, the prevailing theatrical forms and the possibilities of their variations, experimenting with the language and the theatrical expression of dramaturgy, develop the idea of discursive theater. During a short lifetime, Apeiron Theater became one of the most intriguing theaters in Lithuania.
“Provocative“, ”experimenting“, “boundary-breaking“, “brutal“, “uncomfortable“, “chaotic“, “irrational“, “amorphous“ – different epithets are used to describe the Apeiron Theater. Theater lovers and critics do not agree on what the Apeiron Theater is: "ambivalent, its theater language, its spectator-looking theater" (Andrius Jevsejevas), or "graphomania claim to post-modern theater" (Simonas Norbutas).
The creators of the Apeiron Theater do not try to please the proponents of the particular theatrical conception, theory or ideology of any particular concept, nor seek to become a "true" theater. They use specific dramaturgy, visual and acoustic expression, do not identify with the theatrical tradition of "passing" 20th century and create their own vision of theater instead.
VIOLIN / ACCORDION / ELECTRONIC
Contemporary - classical music concert
Guests:
Elena Sverdiolaitė – soprano
Bence Temesvári – cello
Elisabeth Müller – accordion
Lukas Lützow – live sound & electronics
Program includes pieces by Šataitė-Survilienė (world premiere), Eimold, Reich, Scarlatti, Galliano, Šenderovas, Lithuanian folk songs and improvisations.
Seat reservation – veronika.zacherl@a1.net or 0699 11441567 (free entrance)
2,5G rule applies to our concert: vaccination / recovery / PCR-test prove is required.
NEBULA
Violin, pre-records and electronics
2021
Elena Šataitė-Survilienė, 2021
www.elenasataite.com
The idea behind the work emerged naturally from current life on its own, which brought much confusion filled with anxiety. What can help is making a sound with the thought in mind ahead of time? This rather flair for the new beginning, an allusion to reborn. The Latin name Nebula (themist) in many world traditions is often considered as the primary medium that existed before the creation of the world. Whereas, the fog in many traditions can be understood mentally, spiritually, and at other times associated with thoughts, contemplation.
The piece is 10 min in length, structurally controlled, but still evolving into a meditative atmosphere, written for one player who symbolizes the archetypal primacy who is looking for a dialogue with something new not yet experienced(records, electronics).
Elena Šataitė-Survilienė is originally trained in music composition at Lithuanian Music and Theater Academy (LMTA), specializing in Film, TV and Multimedia (BSc, 2015). She was a recipient of the state fellowship in 2011 and LCU Young Artist Award in 2016. In 2017, her little symphony Eremos was included in compilation of Anthology of Lithuanian Art Music in the 21st Century, by American music journalist Frank J. Oteri. Elena is a well-recognized composer for theater performances at the State Small Theater of Vilnius led by Rimas Tuminas, and an active member at film scoring workshops including ‘Summer Media Studio’, ‘Festival International du Film d’Aubagne’. In 2016 she moved to Helsinki, where she took private master classes at Sibelius Academy. In 2018 Elena moved to Vienna, where she was addmitted to theVienna Music Institute (VMI). In 2020 she received the status of Artist Creator appointed by Ministry of Culture. At the same year she was granted for a scholarship by the Lithuanian Council for Culture for the creation of new musical works. In 2021 Elena was a music creator at Vilnius Film Festival (“Kino Pavasaris”) for visual identity.