For the fourth time, Lentvaris Locomotive Depot is transformed into a contemporary art scene. This time Depas 4.0 presents a premiere – artist Antanas Lučiūna’s performance ‘Little Lamb. I am tracing, searching and seeking.’ Antanas Lučiūnas explores the manifestations of popular, everyday and local language found in public space or “non-places”, as well as the paradoxical intimacy that arises between them. Seeking to turn ‘Little Lamb’ into a visual, multi-layered spectacle, the artist combines music, design and performative art, at the same time examining the perception of accuracy.
Bell Hooks
All about love: New visions
“The practice of love offers no place of safety. We risk loss, hurt, pain.
We risk being acted upon by forces outside our control.”
Paul. B. Preciado
“We’re looking for different kinds of representation to find a different way of loving, to have different kinds of relationships.”
R. D. Laing
The Divided Self: The Existential Study in Sanity and Madness
“The complaint he made all along was that he could not become a ‘person.’ He has ‘no self.’ ‘I am only a response to other people, I have no identity of my own.’ He felt he was becoming more and more ‘a mythical person.’ He felt he had no weight, no substance of his own. ‘I am only a cork floating on the ocean.’”
These days I’m thinking a lot about aim, felicity and accuracy, to the point that I’m not capable of grasping their true value. To move in ways that would create waves of desired after effects, to plan or to intuitively feel in which direction you want to move to accomplish things that we evaluate as our inner needs. To understand the aftermath of cause and effect.
I remember this particular scene from my childhood so vividly, when I heard being said to me:
“Don’t lick your lips when the wind is blowing it will cause scabs on your lips.”
Yet here I am, feeling all scabby, thinking about it again, feeling as though there’s a specific choreography that I’m not aware of, so I just move without knowing the steps to it.
Talking to my acquaintance archer Ringa Baltrušaitė, she told me that she’s been practicing archery for 34 years. Her goal had always been precision, victory or some sort of triumph. Her bow of choice when she started the sport was the Olympic bow, but 10 years ago because of some experienced trauma she couldn’t shoot with it anymore. Then she found out about a traditional Japanese style of archery called Kyūdō. In this type of archery, the shooting technique, the inventory and the end goal are all very different, and it worked for Ringa. She said Kyūdō archers don’t seek accuracy or precision. What’s important is respect, attention, the mood and the process of completing the shot. I was astonished by the fact that you can move through half of your life aiming one direction, and still find value and potential in the very movement along the way. In the world of gymnastics, if you want to compete on an elite level, there is no luxury of aging. Most gymnasts often retire as young as in their early 20’s, and peak at 16. Quoting the gymnast Ana Koniuchovaitė about it: “When it becomes a professional sport, there is so much trauma, tears and pain. That’s probably why gymnastics is such a short lived career, you start to mature, your character changes, sometimes the relationships with coaches turn bad and the body is aging, the weight is changing, it becomes a lot harder to do the exercises, but still, it’s going to stay in my heart forever, I will never forget it, and I can still use that knowledge somehow in life.”
Event location: Geležinkelio Str. 15, Lentvaris
Curated by Milda Dainovskytė
Production: Ieva Kabašinskaitė, Marija Olšauskaitė, Rapolas Piesliak
Costumes: Julija Steponaitytė ir Marija Olšauskaitė
Light architecture: Martynas Kazimierėnas
Sound engineer: Antanas Dombrovskij
Composer: Miša Skalskis
Performers:
Vokalas: Viktorija Vyšniauskaitė-Cheri ir Dovilė Stalioraitytė
Lankininkės: Agnė Kuznecova, Akvilė Daubaraitė, Dalia Čiupailienė
Gimnastė: Ana Koniuchovaitė
Graphic design: Monika Janulevičiūtė
Big thanks to: Ringa Baltrušaitė , Tomas Kučinskas, Elena Narbutaitė, Tomas Grunskis, Jurgis Paškevičius, Liudvikas Buklys, Maria Tsoy, Auksė Podolskytė, Vitalija Jasaitė, Marius Armonas, Alexandra Bondarev, VšĮ „Lankininkų sporto klubas“, Contemporary Art Centre (CAC)
Organiser: UAB Surikatos
The project is partially supported by: Lithuanian Council for Culture, Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Lithuania, Trakai District Municipality
Partners: AB Lietuvos Geležinkeliai, Public Institution Lentvaris Culture Palace, artbooks.lt, Lithuanian Union of Interdisciplinary Art Creators
Photography: Gintarė Grigėnaitė
