On 19 October 2024, at 8 pm, the Atletika Gallery (Vitebsko Str. 21, Vilnius) will present a performance by Jette Loona Hermanis, Gloria Viktoria Regotz and Deividas Vytautas Aukščiūnas titled ‘Core’ (2024). The performance will be followed by a party in the event space ‘Estafetė’ in the cultural centre SODAS 2123.
Three characters embody the complexity of self-perception, obsession and desire. Beneath this exterior lies an everlasting need for endless, empty content and a thirst for attention. They expose themselves, inviting the voyeur to observe, to indulge. They thrive on being seen, turning their existence into a competitive race. The performance of their identities is their favourite game, a violent dance set against the backdrop of a beautiful day. Through ritual, they transcend reality, becoming objects, fantasies, imaginary toys.
Auto romantic, self-obsessed, all drenched in vanity.
Feeding off of being perceived, observed, consumed.
Attention seeking, exposing the self digitally.
Craving to be your toy, web exhumed for you.
Competing harsh for clout, platform and visibility.
The mundane shifts to ritual, one carnally see-through.
Jette Loona Hermanis, pulsing Baltic blood, is a performance artist, choreographer, dj and performer, born 1997 in Tallinn, Estonia. After finishing her studies in SNDO Choreography, Amsterdam, she has since been based in Tallinn, Riga and Berlin. She received the Estonian Theatre Prize Dance Award 2022 with Johhan Rosenberg for their work “Eden Detail”. Her background runs in theatre, dance and music, which fatally led it’s way to choreography & performance, where stage crafting melts them in one. An eternal accompaniment of her work is mystifying transcendence and longing to express an affect. Strongly influenced by the digital age, the material carries a screaming obsession with self-centralization and online persona-portrayal, exhibiting emotional narratives of self in relation to existence and suffering of the soul. Storytelling as a concept from which ambiguous attitudes and ideas emerge.
Deividas Vytautas Aukščiūnas (b. 1996, Chicago, USA) is a Lithuanian visual artist and filmmaker working with video, performance, installation and print. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2022 he has been based between Berlin and Vilnius. Aukščiūnas is part of the Swiss-Lithuanian project collective “Public Transport Project”. Recent performance presentations include “Public Transport Project” at Crash Club, Warsaw, PL (2024); “Bible Study Group” at Techne Sphere Leipzig, DE (2024); “Core” at New Fears Gallery, Berlin, DE (2024); “Sunday” at Generation & Display, London, UK (2024); “Performance” at Kunstpunkt Berlin, DE (2024). Selected exhibitions include solo show “Collective Healing Youth Club (ACT I)” at Meno Parkas, Kaunas, LT (2023) and group shows: “Surface Tension”, Des Baines, London, UK (2024); “Soft When Warm”, Guts Gallery, London, UK (2023). This year Aukščiūnas has been invited to screen his film “filled up, torn open” (2022/2024) as part of the Artists Film International 2024 program. He was nominated for the CIRCA Prize in 2023 and won the JCDecaux Award in 2021. He has two upcoming solo shows in Vilnius at Gallery Meno Niša (2024) and Medūza (2025).
Gloria Viktoria Regotz is a Swiss artist, based between Berlin (DE) and Staldenried (CH). Her practice integrates the body into performance, installation, sculpture, and video, with presentations in Basel, Zürich, Berlin, London, Leipzig and Warsaw. She explores human relationships through personal experiences and reflections on social norms, family constructs, Catholicism, and individuality. She graduated with a BA in Product and Industrial Design from the FHNW Basel in 2019. Recently, she, Deividas Vytautas Aukščiūnas, and Philip Ortelli initiated the initiative Public Transport Project with their first presentation at Crash Club during Warsaw Gallery Weekend (2024). Her solo work ‘Existence’ and ‘Perished Hope’ was shown at Basel Social Club, Basel (2024). Previous shows include ‘Healing’, Shells of the Self, Crash Club, Warsaw (2024); ‘Play’, Crash Club Projects, Bliska 12, Warsaw (2023); ‘I like to be alone’, MOLT, Berlin (2023) and ‘Error’, All The Stage World, Studio Hanniball, Berlin (2022). Beginning this year she started a duo practice under the name: Deividas Vytautas + Gloria Viktoria, producing performances with installations and videos. Recent solo and group shows by the duo include ‘Bible Study Group’, Sifting Temple, Leipzig (2024), ‘Sunday’, Todestrieb, Generation & Display, London (2024), ‘Performance’ Escapismus, Kunstpunkt Berlin, Berlin (2024).
Performance ‘Core’ – 19 October 2024, 8 pm. Duration – 40 min.
The performance includes erotic elements and scenes of physical violence.
Address – Atletika gallery, Vitebsko Str. 21, Vilnius.
Event language – English. Free entrance.
The performance will be followed by a party at the space ‘Estafetė’ in the cultural centre SODAS 2123 (Vitebsko Str. 23, Vilnius), event: https://facebook.com/events/s/core-vakarelis/1847262735801847/
Photography by Gil Corujeira.
The event is organised by the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association, activities of the association are financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius City Municipality.
