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Cosmic Home

Termin	10.04.2025, 19:00 – 19:55
Premiera	11.04.2025
Miejsce	Marszałkowska 8
Typ	New
Rodzaj	Spektakle
Wydarzenie	Performance

Obsada

IzabellaDudziak

JanDravnel

JustynaWasilewska

LechŁotocki

MagdalenaKuta

MateuszGórski

MirosławZbrojewicz

MonikaFrajczyk

SebastianPawlak

TomaszTyndyk

What do we see in the sky?
A bird, a drone,
The sun, the moon,
A happy birthday balloon.

In her newest piece “Cosmic Home” (“Kosmiczny Dom”), Lina Lapelytė—known to Polish audiences for the climate performance “Sun & Sea” (winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale) and “Have a Good Day!”opera—illuminates the coincidental, seemingly insignificant or trivial everyday actions, personal rituals and routines, efforts to decipher the signs the universe might be giving us, and intimate revelations often overlooked from afar. All of these elements are essential for the construction of this metaphorical cosmic home. house. Home that will fulfill our need for grounding and security, but only if we accept that nothing is permanent or everlasting.

The musical nature of the performance and the use of voices—not necessarily in a virtuosic way—allow us to touch upon what is most fragile and sensitive within us. There’s no grand narrative here, no classic dialogue-driven scenes, no spectacular life stories. Instead, there is room for fragments of memories, streams of thought, and attempts to find patterns in the complexity of the world. Bodies, voices, set design, and even stage lights are all in constant motion, creating an environment that serves both as a playfully reminder that, in fact, nothing in the universe is stationary, while also, paradoxically, offering a moment for stillness—despite it’s continuous shift, what’s created is a space to pause on the fleeting moments that are truly are, the essence of life.

Three songs from the production were commissioned by the Jencks Foundation, the production runs simultaneously to Lina Lapelytė’s exhibition “In the Dark, We Play,” which was commissioned by the Jencks Foundation, and is on display from April 9 to December 19, 2025, at The Cosmic House in London.

The following songs commissioned by the Jencks Foundation at The Cosmic House, London, as part of the exhibition In The Dark, We Play by Lina Lapelytė, were used in the performance:

Four Seasons

Lyrics: Nouria Bah

Music: Lina Lapelytė

Everything is Moving

from People at Dinner, Or Sleeping
Lirycs: Ella Finer with Flora Pitrolo, 2024
Music: Sharon Gal

Men in Dark Times

Lyrics: Ella Finer’s arrangement of lines by Hannah Arendt, Marcia Farquhar, Edouard Glissant, Fred Moten, C.S. Lewis, 2024
Music: Daniel Bürkner, Lina Lapelytė

fot. Adrian Lach

Lina Lapelytė (born 1984) is an artist whose performance-based practice is grounded in musical composition and sound. Her work critically engages with constructs of pop culture, gender norms, and collective memory, particularly nostalgia. Through the incorporation of both trained and untrained performers, she explores vocal expression across diverse musical traditions, including popular music and opera. These performative acts of singing are conceived as collective, affective experiences that interrogate notions of vulnerability, voice, and the mechanisms of silencing within social and cultural frameworks.
Among other places, Lapelyte’s works were shown at Festival d’Automne/Bourse de Commerce, Paris (2024); Public Art Munich (2024); Wiener Festwochen (2023); FRAC, Nantes (2022); Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2022); SPACE, London (2022); Gherdeina Biennale (2022); Zurcher Theater Spektakel (2022); Haus der Kunst, Munich (2021); 13th Kaunas Biennial (2021); BAM, NY (2021); MOCA, Los Angeles (2021); Kunstenfestivaldesarts, Brussels (2021); Tai Kwun, Hong Kong (2021); Glasgow International (2021); Riga Biennial ‘RIBOCA2’ (2020); Cartier Foundation, Paris (2019);

& Venice Biennial, Venice (2016 & 2019);

Birutė Kapustinskaitė (born 1989) is a screenwriter, director, and playwright actively working across film, theatre, and interdisciplinary projects. In 2018 and 2025, she was honoured with the National Golden Cross Award for Best Playwright. Her plays have been translated into various languages and performed internationally.
Kapustinskaitė’s films were selected for more than forty film festivals around the world and have received multiple awards, including the Best Short Film award at the Jagran Film Festival 2025 in India and the Best Short Film award at the Vilnius International Film Festival. In 2019, she won the Best Screenplay Award at the Aubagne Film Festival for a feature film.
Since 2023, she has been the Head of the Screenwriting Department at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre and continues to work in various fields as a writer and director.

Martynas Kazimierėnas (born 1982) is a designer working with light, object making, and scenography. Based in Vilnius, his practice probes the materiality of things and the origins of their function, often drawing from the motifs and forms of the great outdoors. Using cinematic lighting principles transposed into spatial and performative contexts, shifting industrial technique to domestic and artistic contexts. His lighting for performances and events is often raw, with exposed technical elements that highlight the honesty of construction.

Kazimierėnas has collaborated with artists and institutions across contemporary art and performance, including the Venice Art Biennale, Venice Architecture Biennale, Vilnius Performance Biennale, Palais de Tokyo, CAC Vilnius, ArtVilnius, Nida Art Colony, and Niem Museum.

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