Exhibition "Skateboard Prayer, or Head Below the Hear" by Eglė Budvytytė at the Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius

web_foto_639x380_1Skateboard Prayer, or Head Below the Heart is an exhibition organised around a daily ritual, featuring seven performers who slowly trace a route through the spaces of the CAC. Their practice – a choreography of gestures reminiscent of various spiritual traditions – carries them to and through various states of inwardness, intimacy, playfulness and humbleness. Through gestures of care they embrace their interdependency, remaining mostly indifferent to the presence of audience. The ritual starts daily at 6pm and last an hour. During the opening night the audience is invited to attend a ‘suspended’ version of the piece.

Concept and choreography: Eglė Budvytytė
Performers: Tomas Dapšauskas, Raima Drąsutytė, Viktoras Michnevičius, Greta Petrovskytė, Andrius Pulkauninkas, Matas Saladžius, Kristina Aglaja Skaldina, Povilas Šimonis
Costumes: Morta Griškevičiūtė
Props: Viktorija Rybakova
Sound: Lina Lapelytė
Architecture: Mantas Petraitis
Graphic identity: Line Gry Hørup
Thanks: Goda Budvytytė, Bart Groenendaal

Curators: Virginija Januškevičiūtė, Rūta Junevičiūtė

The exhibition is supported by Mondriaan Fund and Lewben Art Foundation

The exhibition is produced in collaboration with a project supported by EEA Grants and Lithuanian Council for Culture, “Climbing Invisible Structures. Ritualised Disciplinary Practices in Social Life”

Exhibition partner: Nida Art Colony