vertimo vertimas

2023 Ubiškės3 Residency (‘Smoke Nest’ exhibition, curated by Ana Lipps and Liuka Jefremovaitė)

island, lake, shore / core, transition, outside

vertimo vertimas (Eng. a translation of a translation) continues my exploration of transcultural identity, following from 2019’s Kalbėk English and 2021’s Speak Lietuviškai. Questioning what it means to translate yourself between cultures, with all the losses and gains of this process, and how these cultural extremities allow us to triangulate our ‘core’ self.

It is a performance about

noticing the moth holes in my clothes that upon closer inspection appear to be windows,

attempting innate melodies that sulk in my throat and refuse to open the door,

shoving awkward words in a dusty bag and rushing for the next train on a circular railway with two conductors chasing each other,

trying to remember when I started calling the copier glass home,

and wondering why the land cuts and stings the bare feet wanting to embrace it.

Photos by Ovidijus Adomavičius