New LIAA members

2023-03-27

We are happy to announce that the Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association is growing and has new members –  Vaiva Grainytė and Aistė Marija Stankevičūtė!

More about new members:

Vaiva Grainytė – a writer, poet, playwright, active in interdisciplinary art practices.
Her books – the essay collection Beijing Diaries (2012) and the poetry collection Gorilla Archives (2019) – have been nominated for the Book of the Year award and included in the twelve most creative books. A bilingual collage novel, Roses and Potatoes (translated into English by Karla Gruodis) was published in 2022. She is the author of the 6 international award-winning European opera “Good Day!” (2013), and the second opera-performance “Sun and the Sea”, created together with artists Rugilė Bardžiukaitė and Lina Lapelytė, was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale of Contemporary Art 2019. Both works are actively touring and have been shown in major theatre and contemporary art festivals and contexts in Europe, USA, Australia, South America and Asia.

Aistė Marija Stankevičiūtė – a visual artist and a writer. In 2020, she launched the Fliers, which dive through the black surfaces of the world, into the Northern Hall of the Contemporary Art Centre. Her fused glass puddles The Sun is in my Heart (2021) reflected the eyes of molluscs and exhibition visitors. In the video piece Muscle Stone (2021), sporting bodies were enveloped by shimmering shapes, while a song specially composed for this ritual played in the background.
Aistė Marija currently writes essays and exhibition reviews for contemporary art newspapers online at artnews.lt and echogonewrong.com, and develops her artistic practice by knitting objects and conversations.