My artistic practice centres on the realm of memories, and themes of shame, identity and belonging. Initially tapping into performance as a healing medium, I collapse the private into the public, using the narrative of my life as material, fictionalising and transforming memories into something beautiful and sometimes camp, all the while establishing these experiences to be part of a collective continuum shaped by socio-political circumstances. My performances are invitations for tenderness, sincerity and connection, reckoning with the cynicism encroaching such gestures. Another ongoing question in my performance practice is the idea of ‘liveness’—where it can be found, how it may be suspended and the way it’s affected by mediatisation.
Dovydas Laurinaitis
