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Livestreamed on May 19, 2021

Ana Ablamonova is the founder and producer of Operomanija, a production house in Lithuania, dedicated to creation and promotion of new music theatre through diverse cross-disciplinary artistic collaborations. Since 2008, she has produced around 50 contemporary operas and various multidisciplinary art projects, including opera Have a Good Day! (2013), spatial opera in the dark Confessions (2015), performance of Baroque theatre noise machines Bad Weather (2017), comic strip opera Alpha (2018), sonic experience at the Vilna Ghetto The Filler (2019), etc. Ana runs Contemporary opera festival NOA (New Opera Action) – one of the leading international new music theatre events in the Baltic region. Since 2012, she also serves as Head of the Art Centre at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre.

Dr. Goraparasit is a female digital theatre, performance and experimental film and music video director, lecturer, methodologist and designer. A member of WIF (Women In film, USA) and Lithuanian interdisciplinary artists’ association (LETMEKOO, LIAA). Her Conceptual esthetical interests lies in the depths of the net, the act of browsing in itself is an infinite cognitive journey of collecting and identifying audio-visual experiences by which one learns about the world and through which they recreate a sense of self and collective identity, almost directly illustrated by the performances/films such as Electric Dreams (Israel), Psycho (Lithuania). La Psycho (Los Angeles), Elf-fles (Rome, Italy) and many others where cognitive, digital sciences & faking becomes a tool for creativity and continues performative acts. Artists orchestrates a visual shows with a collage of re-enactments and fragments repeated/giffed by actors with maximum precision using a bodily “lip-sync” technique which all the actors skillfully acquire; her shows are like a Youtube-browsing experience where you would go from one clip to another; sometimes without going too deep into its content; you would recognize some things while other things would slip into the digital abyss without leaving traces. Dr. Goraparasit’s works tend to combine performance, cinema, theatre, neuroscience and digital culture its expressive aesthetical language is screaming for attention; as our daily lives visually overloaded digital reality.