Eglė Budvytytė: Songs from the Compost
Canal Projects, New York.
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