HANDS UP
Agnietė Lisičkinaitė
HANDS UP is a physical body posture that recurs in many different cultural, social and religious contexts, capturing the multi-layered nature of its content. The context I have chosen is protest culture.
In Lithuania, protest is identified with the strongly romanticised Sąjūdis era, but in the context of recent world events, from a sociological perspective, it is worth questioning the thesis of protest culture as a good in itself. Unconstructive protest is a convenient form for anarchy to take root.
The choreographic performance inspired by protest culture questions the fragile distance between surrender and submission, reconciliation and resistance. It raises the question: what kind of Protest Baby will we raise - as a symbol of freedom or as a symbol of aggression?
This is an investigation and, like one truth, there is no one answer.
Photo by Dainius Putinas
ZVERUNA
Zveruna‘s neon reality and macabric storylines bring sweet colors and tension of characters in an entire world of ancient myths and todays times. Neon lights are an allegory of consumer society, pleasure, trance, dazzling, gas station and its signboard made of shiny metal, a gang of glow-worms in a spaceship. The old European myths transferred into modern times and our daily situations. It is a manipulation with archetypes and the collective unconscious which is encoded in ancient myths and moves into contemporary mythology.
WITHOUT LETTERS
Without Letters is an experimental Lithuanian band, exploring the landscape of off-kilter electronic, dance and guitar music.
Photo by Saulė Bliuvaitė
BUY ME, GOD
NANCIE NAIVE
The space of "Improper Walls" echoes with the sound of high-heels. Elegant steps seem to float in the air – she walks on earth just the way she walks in Heaven. She manifests as contemporary Mary, – a common girl with the name of the Mother of God's. She's now been blessed. Her body becomes your daily bread, your earnings, your money. Her body is the indulgence of the 21st century, a sacred currency. Nancie redeems her sins with her own self, she sells herself, bodily sacrifices to God. She is the lamb, the snake, she is a divine coin. Her phantom foretells the misfortune neither of future, nor of past, but of today – a peculiar, distant existence and a careless death of ecclesiastical faith.
I AM NANCIE
Nancie Naive
Nancie Naive and her life become a product offered to the public. In “I am Nancie”, she
proposes a self-expansion, a reflection of a pop star in a camera lens. The star and the camera meet in battlefields: photo studios, city streets, the Improper Walls gallery. It is a Nancie Naive-advertising campaign created by Nancie Naive herself, in which she is a work of art, a product, a commodity, and a poster showing how things become important in the light of glory, even if they are not.
Dates:
July 2, 5 - 10 PM
July 3, 3 - 7 PM
July 7, 3 - 7 PM
July 8, 3 - 7 PM
July 9, 3 - 10 PM
July 10, 3 - 10 PM
WE ARE NOT SO FAR AWAY, IT'S JUST WATER
Gedvilė Tamošiūnaitė
Artist aims to explore human loneliness and the deep desire for an emotional interspecies connection; be it with AI, other civilizations in the universe, wild animals, or nature. She is fascinated by the human projection towards AI and other digital imaginary products, which raises complex questions of morality, ethics, love, and how we adjust inter-human relationships to the ones we create with technologies.
Is it possible to perceive our existence as an essential part of nature without applying dominance or prediction? Perhaps our deep fascination in nature and wild animals is in a way caused by an unconscious expectation of our own future escape? And perhaps the vast human desire to control - politically, spiritually and corporeally - is, after all, rooted in a deep existential fear?