LIAA presents a new podcast: virtual conversations with three creatives

2025-12-15

The Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association (LIAA) presents a series of three conversations with LIAA members Žygimantas Augustinas, Neringa Bumblienė, and Lina Lapelytė on its new podcast. This podcast rethinks the classic “artist talk” format and gives listeners the opportunity to get acquainted with the creatives’ thinking not only through their works, but also by listening to their personal experiences, creative decisions, work routines, doubts, and convictions.

The first episode of the podcast features a conversation with printmaker, painter, conceptual artist, and Doctor of Arts Žygimantas Augustinas. His work is based on long-term research exploring the themes of image, history, representation, and memory. Augustinas’ works deconstruct art traditions, question the relationship between reality and image, explore the mechanisms of deception, fiction, and manipulation, and engage the viewer in a critical dialogue with themselves. In this conversation, he shares his thoughts on art as a form of thinking, the relationship between the artist and the viewer, the interaction between creative and academic experience, working conditions, questions of remuneration and value, and the power of the image in the current unstable times.

The second interview invites you to meet curator and author Neringa Bumblienė, who took up the position of director of the Nida Art Colony this autumn. She is the curator of the Lithuanian pavilion at the 59th Venice Art Biennale (2022) and the artistic director of the first Vilnius Performance Art Biennale (2023). Bumblienė’s curatorial practice focuses on experimentation, the relationship between the artist and the institution, the emergence of new works, and the risk of decision-making. In this conversation, she reflects on her curatorial path, the boundaries between personal and institutional positions, the invisible work of a curator, funding mechanisms, the international art field, and discusses a new chapter at the Nida Art Colony.

This trio of conversations concludes with an episode featuring artist, musician, performance and contemporary opera creator Lina Lapelyte, who lives in Vilnius and London. Her work combines music, voice, and performance, bringing together the fields of popular culture, opera, nostalgia, gender stereotypes, and social themes. The opera-performance Sun and Sea (Marina), created together with Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė and Vaiva Grainyte, won the Golden Lion, the main prize at the Venice Biennale in 2019, and the creative team was awarded the Lithuanian National Culture and Arts Prize. In this conversation, the artist reveals the influence of voice, body, collective creation, vulnerability, and long-term collaboration on artistic identity, as well as the repercussions of her work recently presented at the Performa performance biennial.

The conversations are moderated by cultural journalist Urtė Karalaitė, author of LRT KLASIKOS and LRT RADIJO projects and host of the independent podcast Greito gyvenimo lėti pokalbiai (Slow Conversations in a Fast Life). Her conversations are characterized by a focus on the process and a sensitive relationship with the interviewee. The visual design of the podcast was created by Nerijus Rimkus. The conversations were recorded at the Garso Generatoriai studio located in the SODAS2123 complex. Sound direction was provided by Vygintas Kisevičius, one of the studio’s sound producers, multi-instrumentalist, and composer.

The podcast is available on Spotify.

LTMKS activities are financed by the Lithuanian Council for Culture.