ORYGENT invites the researchers of Yaga Gathering to attune with the mycelium network below the forest floor and the memories it has digested through a movement technology developed by one of its associates, Byuka Makodru. Five poses, flowing in a circle accompanied by self-ringing bell, created by associate Sholto Dobie, will offer participants a non-intellectual form of knowledge. Dovydas Laurinaitis, one of ORYGENT’s trainers, will showcase the movement technology for 5 continuous hours inside a forest clearing. To join, participants will first need to change out of their clothes into the robes provided in the changing room. Entering and exiting is only permitted when the bell rings. Upon entering, participants must perform the movements and are welcome to stay for as long as they wish. Up to 25 people can be inside at once.
Dovydas artistic practice centres on the realm of memories, and themes of shame, identity and belonging. Initially tapping into performance as a healing medium. He collapse the private into the public, using the narrative of his 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. His performances are invitations for tenderness, sincerity and connection, reckoning with the cynicism encroaching such gestures. Another ongoing question in his 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.
Performance by Dovydas Laurinaitis — July 18 (Saturday), 16:00–21:00