Galinytė Inga
Memory Islands (The Watermill Center, New York, 2024); Photo: Maria Baranova
Inga Galinytė is an interdisciplinary and performing artist. She holds a bachelor’s and a master’s degree from the Vilnius Academy of Arts. By looking interdisciplinary, the artist creates her unique performative language that explores the disciplines of performance art, contemporary dance, theater, combining them with the knowledge and practices of visual art. In the artistic process, Inga often plays around with the daily collected data of images, sounds, movements, and texts, where their connections and variations become scripts for her works that focus on topics of memory, empathy, and immortality. In developing her artistic tools, next to academic education, Inga participated in intensive acting training course organised by the Fontainebleau School of Acting, took a training in the Paris Summer Academy organized by Oriantheatre dance company, did research in a movement language called Gaga in Tel Aviv developed by choreographer Ohad Naharin, was selected to participate in several international performing arts programs at Watermill Center in New York, founded by theater director Robert Wilson and other various workshops. Her works were presented across the world, including the Lithuanian Swamp Pavilion during the 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, the 12th Kaunas Biennial in Lithuania, the Watermill Center in New York, The exhibition ‘Le Loup de Fer’ in Paris, and other exhibitions and events. In addition to personal creations, the artist also participated as a performer in the works of artists, among others, such as Alexandra Pirici, Robert Wilson, Monika Jagusinskyte, Eye Gymnastics, Willi Dorner, Cocorosie, Pere Faura.