Lina Lapelytè
Lina Lapelytè is a Lithuanian artist and musician. Her practice is rooted in music, flirts with pop culture, gender stereotypes and nostalgia. Her works engage trained and untrained performers, often in an act of singing that takes the form of a collective and affective event that questions vulnerability and silencing. In 2019, her work Sun & Sea (Marina), made together with Vaiva Grainytè and Rugilè Barzdžiukaitè, curated by Lucia Pietroiusti, won the Golden Lion award at the Venice Biennale. In 2020 she received the national art and culture prize in Lithuania. Lapelytè holds a BA in classical violin (2006) and Sound Arts (2009), MA in Sculpture, London (2013).
Lina Lapelytė invited the participants to take part in a silent walk while wearing earplugs. During the walk, the group moved together, each person focusing on an unusual auditory condition that encouraged listening to internal sounds rather than external ones.
Upon reaching the predetermined destination, the silence was extended, allowing each participant to remove the earplugs and experience a new quality of listening.
In the afternoon, Lapelytė introduced her practice by inviting the participants to work with choral forms and vocal harmony, using simple phrases drawn from newspapers.
This was followed by the creation of a short dramaturgy for scores: each participant received a score of actions developed through a collective writing process, to be performed simultaneously with the others. Each action lasted one minute and could, or not, enter into relation with the others, generating a simultaneous dramaturgy that unfolded like a landscape.
