Identity 2020 - Art & Music Festival

What is the meaning of Identity? What does it mean in our modern society? How do I understand who I am?

Visual Art / Musical Performances / Screening of Lithuanian Cinema / Contemporary Dance Performance / Discussionm / Creative Workshop

According to the late Leonid Donsky, identity is "a tense field of interpretation and understanding of ourselves and the world around us, where what others think and say, what we think and talk about ourselves and who we want to intersect". L. Donskis wrote that identity is not only the words of us and those around us, it is the influence of our community and culture, but also the great desire to talk about who we are and what our culture is.

The theme of the LT.art Vienna 2020 festival is identity. The festival invites you to discuss how time, place, culture and language influence our perception of who we are. What does it mean to be Lithuanian? How do we present ourselves, what questions we ask ourselves and others? How has our identity been and is being influenced by different periods and cultures?

Contemporary people have a relentless desire to explore and contemplate the world around them. We try not to assign people to a group or category simply because we speak one language or are born in one territory.

The aim of the event is to create a dialogue between artists from two countries, Lithuania and Austria. Many Lithuanians have the opportunity to travel, study and work abroad, and are influenced by people and opportunities they meet. They communicate on the same topics and often, with their unique proficiency, their past and experience, differently comprehend the answer.

The program of the festival includes a group exhibition of visual art, musical performances, screening of Lithuanian cinema, contemporary dance performance, discussion and creative workshops.

PROGRAMM

25.03 RITUAL: Audiovisual Installation
Artists: Akvilė Magicdust, Ūla Šveikauskaitė, ABran, DJ $TOCKER, Ziggy's "lucid photography", Trafik, Palanga Street Radio, Brokenchord
Location: Improper Walls

26.03 B&B Dialogue x The Sofa Project
Artists: B & B, Marija Baranauskaitė
Location: The Nest

27.03 Classical music evening
Artists: Augustas Gocentas, Anastasija Maximov, Danielė Brekytė, Eglė Ona Bartkevičiūtė, Elena Sverdiolaitė, Elžbieta Liepa Dvarionaitė, Indrė Pelakauskaitė, Julija Bagdonavičiūtė, Petras Gediminas Plėšnys, Viktoras Orestas Vagusevičius, ASAG Quartett
Location: Bank Austria Salon im Alten Rathaus

28.03 Discussion: Exposing National Identity
Moderator: Karolis Vyšniauskas
(Nanook - http://nanook.lt/en/podcast/)
Panelists: TBA
Location: Improper Walls

03.04 Lithuanian Shorts: screening of Lithuanian cinema
Partner: dotdotdot
Location: Admiral Kino

Detailed program is coming soon.

Supported by Lietuvos kultūros taryba, Globali Lietuva - Global Lithuania, Lietuvos Respublikos ambasada Vienoje / Embassy of Lithuania in Vienna, Užsienio reikalų ministerija, Bank Austria Salon im Alten Rathaus

LT.art Vienna is an initiative by Lithuanian Community in Austria (Austrijos lietuvių bendruomenė)

Organized and curated by Justina Speirokaite, Julija Karimžanova, Danielė Brekytė, Viltautė Žemelytė, Urtė Špeirokaitė, Jolita Skinulyte