Lina Lapelytė five-hour durational performance at Triennale garden, Milan; Golden Lion winner at Venice Biennale 2019

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FOG festival opens with a five-hour durational performance by Lithuanian artist Lina Lapelytė, who co-authored the operatic performance Sun & Sea (Marina) that earned the Lithuanian Pavilion the Golden Lion for best national participation at the 58th Venice Biennale in 2019. The work is commissioned by Triennale Milano in the framework of the European project

PIT – Perform, Inform, Transform: Participatory Performance in Art Museums

combines singing and sculptural action in a collective work set in the Triennale garden. The performers shape terracotta into cubic forms while performing a continuous vocal score, inviting spectators to participate in the process of working with clay. The songs unfold within a space that evolves over time as the cubes accumulate, creating a social and material landscape in constant transformation. In this work, Lina Lapelytė expands her exploration of the voice as a social medium, examining how collective actions can generate forms of connection and temporary structures of belonging.

Lina Lapelytė (b. 1984, Kaunas, Lithuania) is an artist and composer whose performance based practice is rooted in music and explores pop culture, gender stereotypes, and nostalgia. She is best known for Sun & Sea (with Vaiva Grainytė and Rugilė Barzdžiukaitė), which won the Golden Lion at the 2019 Venice Biennale. Working between Vilnius, Berlin and London, she collaborates with trained and untrained performers to create collective acts of singing that question systems of silencing and invite vulnerability. Among other places her work has been presented at Festival d’Automne

Bourse de Commerce (Paris), Wiener Festwochen, BAM, MOCA, the Venice Biennale, Taipei and Shanghai Biennials, Performa (New York), and Hamburger Bahnhof (Berlin). Upcoming presentations include Tate Modern (London), Galeria Municipal do Porto, CAC (Vilnius), and the Medina Triennial (New York).

founded in 2011 by Laura Borghi, is a leading non-profit foundation investigating contemporary international ceramics takes an unparalleled, 360 degree-approach to ceramics. Promoting new research and experimentation in ceramics, while exploring the past, the foundation widens and expands the dialogue between art, craft, and design. Through a dynamic, cross-disciplinary program of exhibitions, educational activities, and publications, it actively promotes a lively conversation about ceramics that encapsulates a diverse audience. All activity at the foundation is driven by the belief that ceramics is a carrier of artistic, cultural, and social transformation. Fostering an open and participatory setting, Fondazione Officine Saffi encourages both artists and audiences to interrogate what it means to live in our world today, to relate to the Other and nonhuman life, and create social and cultural value through involvement in a multidisciplinary program that underscores a unique consortium of interpretations and builds momentum around ceramics in the twenty-first century. The foundation supports artists, designers, and makers through the different stages of production, promotion, and recognition of their work while being a platform for emerging creatives, as well as projects and narratives flourishing outside the established market systems. The foundation’s commitment to exploring Italian culture accompanies its intercultural identity and desire to create a broader dialogue that resonates on a global scale together with a hybrid network of international talents, institutions, and organizations.

Lina Lapelytė, 2022. Photo by Rasa Juškevičiūtė, courtesy of the artist

Fondazione Officine Saffi, Academy workshop. Foto di Piergiorgio Sorgetti

ALOT. Foto di Antonella Catalano

Concept, Music & Direction: Lina Lapelytė

Soundtrack and Song Composition: Lina Lapelytė with Daniel Bürkner

Performers: Sebastiano Amidani, Cecilia Braga, Rachele Bonini, Maddalena Borghesi, Margherita Caviezel, Nicola Fadda, Diego Finazzi, Luca Rella, Matilda Morosini, Giorgia Paolillo, Cecilia Uberti Foppa, Ludovica Tagariello, Giulia Villa – ALOT Teatro

Co-production: Triennale Milano Teatro, CAC

Studio Lina Lapelytė: Erik Vojevodin, Taisija Burtovaja

In collaboration with: Fondazione Officine Saffi

In the framework of the

’ project, co-funded by the European Union

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PIT – Perform Inform Transform: Participatory Performance in Art Museums