Čiurlionis and Chips Vol. 5: Embeddings
Ideas Block founders Roberto Becerra and Liucija Dervinytė arrive at Žiogeliai for an art residency. Together with guest artists they will create a multidisciplinary exhibition responding to the legacy of M.K. Čiurlionis. Merging text, visual and sound art, their works will move across various spaces, inviting the audience into a dialogue between nature, culture, information, perception and time.
Čiurlionis art practice often positioned nature as a sacred force: mythic, vast, spiritual, and symbolically charged. Meanwhile, Liucija Dervinytė, whose artistic focus centers on nature, sees it as a dynamic field of interconnected relationships, where human culture is not separate but embedded within it. Her work raises questions around ecological responsibility and the entangled relationships that define the Anthropocene. These reflections manifest through painting, collage, textile, and video art. During a collective embroidery session, she invites visitors to reflect together on the links between nature and culture.
Roberto Becerra approaches these questions through sound, its informational properties, material presence, and its capacity to shape perception. He explores the speculative idea that sound carries remnants of events and informational updates on its patterns. Shaping the realities we perceive. This installation explores the sonic as information.
Liucija Dervinytė (born in Lithuania), focuses on interdisciplinary art practices and curation, surrounding topics on the boundary between culture and nature, and the human condition framed by it. Roberto Becerra (born in Mexico), currently teaches at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, he specializes in electronic music, sound art and spatial sound. In 2017, the artist duo founded “Ideas Block” (NGO Idėjų blokas LT), a non-profit organization in Vilnius promoting interdisciplinary art, cultural content, and education. In 2022, they opened the independent culture space “Kompresorinė,” located in the former compressors room of the Physics Institute. Functioning as a gallery, events venue, and co-working space it hosted exhibitions, concerts, workshops, and other cultural events. For a brief moment, this space energized Vilnius’ alternative art scene, but in 2024, “Ideas Block - Kompresorinė” had to close due to the expansion of the Ministry Quarter project in Vilnius. Through their efforts, “Ideas Block” for a one weekend revive in Žiogeliai.
Guest artists: Emilija Mecelicaitė, Aleksijus Sapiego, Vygintas Orlovas.
Address: Žiogelių 6, Žiogeliai, Viečiūnų sen, Druskininkai
Dates: July 26-27
Saturday, July 26th:
3:00 PM – Doors open, collective embroidery with Liucija
4:00 PM – Talks & chips
5:00 PM – Sound explorations with Roberto
6:00 PM – Gong bath with guest artist Aleksijus
7:00 PM – DJ Roberto
Sunday, July 27th
1:30 PM – Environmental art therapy with guest artist Emilija
3:00 PM – Doors open, collective embroidery with Liucija
4:00 PM – Sound explorations with Roberto
4:30 PM – Talks, chips & guided tour
6:00 PM – Doors close
The event is free of charge.
Organized by NGO “Locustarum” and NGO “Idėjų blokas”
Partially funded by Druskininkai Municipality