For the seventh year, the Arts Printing House has been inviting you to get acquainted with various forms of street arts, inviting you to the international street arts festival SPOT every year in the summer. This year we invite you to enjoy the festival – on July 11-14, in the public spaces of Vilnius! 

PROGRAM:

THE DUCK PERFORMANCE| Marija Baranauskaite – Liberman (LT/UK)

What does it mean to look and be looked at? The Duck Performance is a show by interdisciplinary artist Marija Bransauskaitė-Liberman, in which pond ducks unexpectedly become the centre of attention. So far, M. Baranauskaitė has primarily explored artistically what it means to perform for non-human spectators – for example, for objects such as sofas. The Duck Performance bravely expands this spectrum, as it is a show for humans. It encourages looking at the relationship between animals and humans with new eyes. The reasons for this decision and its post-human underpinnings are presented in a performative lecture that sets the framework for the excursion. The audience then embarks on a journey through the city to reach the stage of the actual performance. An extremely meaningful and appreciative preparation for the climax at the pond!

July 11, 17:00

July 12, 17:00

Meeting point: Arts Printing House (Šiltadaržio st. 6)

Duration: 2 hours.

Language: English/Lithuanian

Age: 12+

Please note: The performance is interactive – the audience will be asked to carry their chairs as they walk through the city.

CEMENT ECLIPSES PROJECT | Isaac Cordal (ESP)

The Cement Eclipses Project began as a nomadic project in public spaces in 2006 and is still in progress. To date, it has made interventions in cities such as Berlin, London, Bogota, Brussels, Zagreb, Vienna, Taipei, Milan, New York, Amsterdam, Paris, Hanoi, etc. With the simple act of miniaturization and thoughtful placement, Isaac Cordal magically expands the imagination of pedestrians finding his sculptures on the street.

The Cement Eclipses Project is a critical definition of our behaviour as a social mass. The artwork intends to catch the attention of our devalued relationship with nature through a critical look at the collateral effects of our evolution. With the master touch of a stage director, the figures are placed in locations that quickly open doors to other worlds.

July 11 – 14, during the entire festival, in the streets of Vilnius Old Town

STORK | Aino Mäkipää / Kanta Company (FIN/LT)

“It‘s early morning, the sun just started to rise, the ground is covered with dew, and the fields are surrounded by a mysterious mist. A stork‘s nest is built on a tall black pole. A proud and slightly dirty white stork stands inside of it.”

With the arrival of the new circus, everyone seems to have forgotten about the participation of animals in the performance. However, after choosing an animal as the object of artistic research in contemporary circus, they return to the stage, only this time in a more mindful way – in the form of an idea. Like the migratory birds – storks, circus artists do not stay in one place for too long, their life is a constant movement. Inspired by this nomadic status, a stack of documentaries, books for children and adults, and peoples’ tales, Finnish artist Aino Mäkipää uses a Chinese pole and juggling to tell the dramatic story of an elegantly rough-looking bird from a human perspective in her first solo creation – Stork.

July 11, 20:00

July 12, 19:00

Location: Rain park (Šeškinė park)

Duration: 30 min

THE PLACE | Electrico 28 (CAT)

Work in progress description:

The Place is a story about a place that, at first sight, is not a place to fall in love with. It is not the kind of place that would be announced in a travel guide or that one would photograph.

Eléctrico 28’s new performance is about the relationship with a place like that. Observing it, sensing it, inhabiting it, imagining and describing it. What places, things and beings exist inside of it? What does it expect from us? What could happen to it? Does it take us elsewhere, too?

The performance invites the audience to see, listen, touch and connect to a place and the places inside it. To consider that we are actually a place ourselves.

July 12, 20:00

July 13, 15:00

Location: Children’s playground, Šeimyniškių st. 21D

Duration: 40 min

BIEN PARADO | Collectif la Meandre (FR)

Bien Parado is a dance performance for the public space in which a Sevillana dancers meets electronic music. By recounting an intimate revolution shaken by the subterranean mutations of a tormented world, it opens up a necessary dialogue between heritage and deconstruction. With a cube as a stage and the public space as the only backdrop, a dancer and a musician tame each other and move through time until they find a common rhythm. Bien Parado is an ode to freedom, a visceral battle for emancipation.

July 12, 21:00

July 13, 17:00 / 21:00

Location: Courtyard of the European Humanities University, Savičiaus str. 17

Duration: 40 min

ESPERA | Compañía de Circo eia (CAT)

Espera is a participatory circus show where the audience is invited, in a subtle way, to experience from close what happens on stage. When the border between the stage and the audience disappears, the show becomes an opportunity to share a collective experience, where we look at each other in the eyes and we listen to each other with the body. In an atmosphere that brings us to a place away from our time, made of simple gestures, the acrobats become artisans of movement and lost landscapes appear in front of us, filled with human gestures and honest meetings.

July 13, 14:00

July 14, 13:00 / 16:00

Location: The courtyard of the story house of the exhibition eagle, T. Kosciuškos str. 3

Duration: 45 min

BRACE FOR IMPACT | Knot on hands (NL)

In Brace for Impact, three acrobats search for the limits of balance. In their quest for an equilibrium, they find new ways of moving forward and travelling through space. On their journey, they explore each other’s (im)possibilities and find out what it means to put all their weight in someone else’s hands.

Knot on Hands shows an innovative and more organic form of partner acrobatics, while emphasizing the pureness of the movement, and distinguishes itself using a unique physical language.

July 13, 19:00

July 14, 15:00 / 17:00

Location: Šnipiškės square (Giedraičių-Kintų st. square, Kintų st. 8)

Duration: 30 min

ONE | Arūnas ir Clara (FR/LT)

Step into a world where the origins of existence unfold in mesmerizing motion as ONE takes you on an enchanting journey through the primal heartbeat of the universe. In this dance performance, we delve into the essence of nature, the life force that gave us life and allowed us to unite.

ONE invites you to witness the powerful coming together of two souls, standing as equals in this world, often divided by the boundaries of society. These two individuals are brought together, guided by the almighty embrace of nature and supported by each other’s energy. They go beyond the limitations of social status, cultural differences, gender and sexuality, creating a shelter where acceptance and understanding thrive.

In this space, they discover an unbreakable bond that transcends words and defies all labels. With pleasure and precision, they embark on a journey of exploration, discovering many aspects of their connection. From deep intimacy to playful communication, they reveal innovative ways of communicating and merging, seamlessly becoming one subject.

July 13, 20:00

July 14, 14:00

Location: Vingis Park Bridge 

Duration: 40 min

BALCONY | Ulna dance company (LT)

The performance takes a new look at the connection between our movement and our environment: how does the relationship and the totality of all these components change, how can our experience and history alter when the action is moved to a completely different environment? “Balcony” invites the audience to become an equal part of an experimental journey, where every movement is a step towards new forms of interaction and every stage setting is a new interpretation of the world.

It is a poetry of movement revealing the power of the environment around us, shaping our identity and interaction with ourselves and others. During the performance, the dancers create different spaces of processes, exposing the influence of the environment on the movement. In this way, a continuous narrative is created from the constantly changing elements in the space – objects, various details, and the audience. It is not only a story about movement – it is an opportunity to feel the interaction with the world and yourself.

July 14, 16:00 / 18:00

Location: Courtyard of the Lithuanian Theatre, Music and Cinema Museum (Vilniaus st. 41A)

Duration: 30 min