performance 20 min
sound: Muza de la Luz
background sound: Paulius Kilbauskas
one-day festival "Alchemy of Becoming"
at Ubiškės3 Residency, Lithuania
August 30th, 2025
INTRO
What happened in the dark corners of the structures? When we as “others”: women, femmes, outcasts, and queers, are born into this world, why are we saddled with the pressures of silence and acceptance of our fates? How can we start to whisper our traumas and fears, to begin to shed what doesn’t belong to us? How do we begin to let go? We invite you to whisper your secrets into the space to begin the unraveling and rebirth and make promises to ourselves and our future generations. We can choose to be different, but what do we offer? Do we bury what’s left?
ABOUT
The project aims to create an immersive experience through multi-lingual (spoken and embodied) approaches l with live music to explore the invisible structures of power and embodied trauma and proposes potential for collective healing through shared presence. The dramaturgy and material-based scenography intuitively invites each audience member into a personal journey free of linear narrative and accessible across cultures, generations, and social contexts.
At its core, this performance project is also a structural and ethical social experiment: an artistic production developed through horizontal co-authorship, without rigid hierarchies. This approach continues Irina Komissarova’s long-term research into non-authoritarian models of theatre-making, where artistic roles intersect, and decision-making is distributed. The process itself becomes a living inquiry into mutual responsibility, care, and dialogue and offers an alternative to the typical narrative of production logistics.
The project’s scenographic centerpiece, a latex coccon functioning both as physical performance space and metaphor, that reflects the porous, vulnerable, and elastic nature of the body. The latex as a containerresists spectacle while encouraging a ritual of sensing, remembering, and releasing energy for both the performer and audience. The sonic and physical elements are developed not only as illustration, but as co-existing agents of transformation.Through this, the project becomes a work of contemporary performance art that acts as a site of radical healing through art, offering space for individual and collective reflection on stored pain, inherited memory, and the potential of presence.
