Operomanija

In their collaborative practice, the artists pay special attention to the relationship between documentary and fiction, reality and poetry, and the overlap of theater, music and the visual arts. Their opera-performance Sun & Sea (2019) is the second collaboration between the three artists. The work represented Lithuania at the 58th Contemporary Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia (2019), where it was awarded the Golden Lion for Best National Participation. Their previous work, the contemporary opera Have a Good Day! (2013) for ten cashiers, supermarket sounds, and piano earned six international awards in Europe.

Vaiva Grainytė’s text-based practice shifts between genres, interdisciplinary theater works and publications. As a writer, playwright, and poet she takes action as an observant anthropologist: challenged by Grainytė’s poetic interpretation, mundane social issues take on a paradoxical and defamiliarized nature (www.vaivagrainyte.com).

Lina Lapelytė is an artist and musician. Her performances and installations engage trained and untrained performers often in an act of singing through a wide range of genres such as mainstream music and opera. Her works take the form of a collective and affective event that questions vulnerability and silencing (www.linalapelyte.com).

Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė works as a theatre director, filmmaker and visual artist. In her creative practice, Rugile explores how the gap between objective and imagined realities opens in documentary narratives, how social constructs invade nature, moving from humour to horror, from real to surreal.