Lithuanian creators’ audiovisual mission “Performa” was offered within the USA Tradition

On the finish of June, L.Kmieliauskaitė, A.Kmieliauskas and L.Narkevičiūtė participated within the occasion “Evening of the Arts” presenting European creators, which came regarding throughout the “Sound Scene” competition on the Hirshhorn Museum of Trendy Artwork in Washington.

The duo “Twenty Fingers Duo” organized a really delicate and fascinating program for the American viewers – the audiovisual mission “Performa”, offered for the primary time in Lithuania at “Menų spaustuvėja” 5 years in the past, consisting of six works by up to date Lithuanian composers, interpreted with the visuals of artist L. Narkevičiūtė and accompanied by cinematographer Kristijonas Dirce projections.

Gražina Michnevičiūtė’s picture/Performa crew in Washington on the Hirshhorn Museum following the efficiency

L.Kmieliauskaitė and A.Kmieliauskas carried out 4 compositions in Washington “Arts Evening”: Dominyks Digim’s “Strolling with Three Factors”, Rasa Vitkauskaitė’s “Aukštetas”, Andrias Maslekov’s “Shadows of Evening Canvases” and Mykolos Natalevičius’ “Dew”. fog”.

After two performances of the duo, the viewers didn’t cover their admiration for the Lithuanian performers: “They’re magical, they enchanted us with their efficiency. And what a visible achievement!”

The Lithuanian artists didn’t cover that it was an awesome honor and a unprecedented expertise for them to take part on this artwork occasion presenting their work to the US and worldwide viewers in such a particular place – the celebrated Hirshhorn Museum in Washington. “We’re very completely satisfied that we represented each the Lithuanian music scene and the sphere of visible arts with this multi-layered mission. A multifaceted take a look at Lithuanian creativity in such an expert occasion is extraordinarily important.

Gražina Michnevičiūtė’s picture/Performa audiovisual present on the Hirshhorn Museum

“Performa” goals to create new experiences by way of the collaboration of artists from completely different fields, due to this fact, I feel, our mission meaningfully enriched the context of the occasion, selling cultural and inventive trade. The occasion attracted an enormous move of tourists, we’re completely satisfied to be part of it and get to know the contributors and creators of the competition from numerous international locations, representing the international locations of the European Union”, says L. Narkevičiūtė, who created the visible language of this mission.

A. Kmieliauskas, a member of the string duo “Twenty Fingers Duo”, was stunned by the unbelievable scale of the “Evening of the Arts” included within the “Sound Scene” competition: “1000’s of spectators visited the occasions held on the Hirshhorn Museum throughout someday of the competition!” It is superb that 5 years following the creation of the “Performa” mission and following touring numerous worldwide music festivals, we launched this audiovisual piece to the attentive ears and eyes of the American viewers for the primary time.”

The delegation of the European Union (EU) in Washington, in cooperation with the celebrated Hirshhorn Museum of Trendy Artwork, offered the one-day mission “Evening of the Arts” for the second time. The idea of this mission is to current European values ​​by way of EU artists, to point out the work of artists from this continent and on the identical time to offer them the chance to inform regarding it. The museum had two levels, one outdoors and one inside. Varied musical initiatives and performances had been offered on the “Evening of the Arts”, discussions and conversations of artists came regarding.

The “Evening of the Arts” mission was partially financed by the Lithuanian Institute of Tradition and the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania in Washington.