Lina Lapelyt\u0117<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 artist, musician, composer and performer. Lives and works in Vilnius and London. Her performance-based practice flirts with pop culture, explores gender stereotypes, ageing and nostalgia.\u00a0Initially trained as a classical violinist, Lina Lapelyt\u0117\u2019s has developed an ongoing interest and research into experimental music, amateur performance, and historical genres.\u00a0In her recent work, Lapelyt\u0117 traverses between disciplines and explores various forms of performativity. Her works engage trained and untrained performers often in an act of \u2018singing\u2019 through a wide range of genres such as mainstream music and opera. The singing takes the form of a collective and affective event that questions vulnerability and silencing.\u00a0By \u2018unlearning\u2019 their classical formation, and internalising the resonating dynamics between visual and sound art, Lapelyt\u0117 unsettles the passive\/active foundation of listening.\u00a0In 2019 her opera-performance Sun & Sea (Marina) (co-authors: Rugil\u0117 Barzd\u017eiukait\u0117 and Vaiva Grainyt\u0117) won Lithuania the Golden Lion for the best national participation at the Venice Biennale of Art.\u00a0Find\u00a0more\u00a0about\u00a0the\u00a0artist:\u00a0www.linalapelyte.com<\/a><\/p>\n J\u0101nis Balodis<\/strong> (1987) – \u00a0dramaturge, recent graduate from DAS Theatre in Netherlands. He has been working in theatre professionally since 2009 as playwright, dramaturg and occasionally as a performer. He also has been\u00a0teaching\u00a0drama\u00a0and\u00a0playwriting\u00a0at\u00a0the\u00a0Academy\u00a0of\u00a0Culture\u00a0of\u00a0Latvia.
\nHis artistic interests are related with society and the question: how are we here together? Are we together at all?\u00a0J\u0101nis’ research will focus on school education programmes and values that are emphasised in history, literature and political science classes: “How does the point of view there relates, helps or goes
\nagainst challenges that are posed by anthropocene? I assume that values created in Enlightenment era, in era of Industrialisation and during the birth of Nationalism are still the values that consciously and unconsciously are being passed on. I assume that those values can regard the Nature as the \u201cother\u201d. Nature as something that has to be viewed as a potential for growth and increase of the well being of human society (nation). So I would be interested to see what is the agency of non-human in the narratives of school education?”<\/p>\n
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