2022-05-24
The performances were prepared in the LMTA Theatre Art master’s program in the course
“Performative Practices in Contemporary Art”. The course coincided with the beginning of the war in Ukraine. There was no alternative to devoting full attention to the subject of war. The four performances are personal, intimate, ritualistic, intertextual attempts to answer the question: What is poetry after Bucha?
The course was led by Saulius Leonavičius.
Artists: Motiejus Ivanauskas, Saulius Leonavičius, Agnė Nemanytė, Vaiva Paukštė.
a poet can’t write about war
neither victim
nor participant
nor defender
nor observer
nor outsider
so who
the war gave everyone a role—what’s yours?
covering your mouth with your palm?
write write
miss can’t-hold-back-the-tongue
suddenly she’s quiet just when it seemed
precisely the time to talk but
what can you say when over there
everyone everywhere is shouting
sirens screaming
smoke crackling high up
evaculuggage wheels squeaking
crooked mouths of shattered windows
desperately howling
she texts you “I can hear explosions close by,
fighter jets flying”
you don’t know
how to respond.
Iryna Shuvalova
The event will take place on May 26 7 p.m.
Location: Cultural Centre SODAS 2123 (Vitebsko str. 23, Vilnius), Aktų salė.
The activities of Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association are funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius City Municipality
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