Eglė Budvytytė
Eglė Budvytytė is an artist working at the intersection between visual and performing arts. She approaches movement and gesture as technologies for a possible subversion of normativity, gender and social roles and for dominant narratives governing public spaces. Her practice, spanning across songs, poetry, videos and performances, explores the persuasive power of collectivity, vulnerability and permeable relationships between bodies, audiences and the environment.
Songs from the Compost, Mutating Bodies, Imploding Stars
4K video, 28 min, 2020
Made in collaboration with Marija Olšauskaitė and Julija Lukas Steponaitytė, Songs from the compost is a hypnotic exploration of nonhuman forms of consciousness and different dimensions of symbiotic life: interdependence, surrender, death, and decay.
Songs from the Compost, Mutating Bodies, Imploding Stars
4K video, 28 min, 2020
Made in collaboration with Marija Olšauskaitė and Julija Lukas Steponaitytė, Songs from the compost is a hypnotic exploration of nonhuman forms of consciousness and different dimensions of symbiotic life: interdependence, surrender, death, and decay.
Shot in the pine forests and dunes of the Curonian Spit, the video performance gradually unfolds through a specially conceived song that channels the desires of an entity shapeshifting across different genders, voices, and beyond-human embodiments. Featuring a cast comprised of local youth, alongside performer and choreographer Mami Kang, the movement rejects the verticality of the human figure by unfurling it into the landscape so that the performers’ bodies are constantly pulled toward the earth and towards each other. In the film, a hypnotic voice sings lyrics that draw from the writings of biologist Lynn Margulis and science-fiction author Octavia Butler and their shared ideas on symbiosis, mutation, and hybridity.
Supported by: Nida Art Colony, 4Cs -From conflict to conviviality through culture, RIBOCA2, Mondriaan Funds, Lithuanian Culture Council
