On November 10, 2025, at 6:00 PM, at Vilnius University Šiauliai Academy (Vytauto St. 84), Laura Kutkaitė’s performative lecture Tremolo will take place.
Presented by the Arts and Science Laboratory (MMLAB).
Age rating – 16+
The event is part of the contemporary art and fashion festival VIRUS’30.
Festival program: https://siauliugalerija.lt/siuolaikinio-meno-ir-mados…/
ABOUT THE PERFORMATIVE LECTURE
Tremolo (Italian for “trembling”) is a musical term meaning the rapid, repeated reiteration of a single note, interval, or chord.
Director Laura Kutkaitė and her team invite you to a performance–lecture on pleasure. The chosen title tremolo is interpreted as trembling—both from pleasure and from fear. The fear of not conforming to the “norms” of sexual pleasure imposed or constructed by society. The fear of living according to the expectations imposed by others, which we embody so often that we no longer even notice it.
What has been repeated to us again and again? What remains unspoken, but we wish to know, to understand, and to hear from another—so that each of us may feel normal and healthy in our sexual lives?
The director chooses the format of a performative lecture as the most suitable way to address topics of women’s bodily awareness, sexual health, and self-worth through the central prism of sexual pleasure. Research-based information is interwoven with documentary stories of people who identify as women.
“Gentle Power” is how the creative team describes the upcoming work.
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Dear visitors, by attending the exhibition openings, you acknowledge and agree that the events may be filmed or photographed, and the images may be published on the Šiauliai Art Gallery website, in the media, or on social media platforms.
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Festival organizer – Šiauliai Art Gallery
Funded by – Šiauliai City Municipality, Lithuanian Council for Culture
Main media partner – Lithuanian National Radio and Television
Partners and supporters: UAB Sixteen media, Cupernican, wãpsva LT design house, Soya Asia, shopping center Saulės miestas, UAB Laurema graphics, Tešla ir dešra, Simo limonadai, SOVLI Toyota Center Šiauliai, Meno niša, Šiauliai “Aušra” Museum, Šiauliai State Drama Theater, UAB Rūta, Šiauliai Center of Technologies and Training, Šiauliai Athletics and Wellness Center, Estonian Academy of Arts, Latvian Academy of Arts, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lviv Fashion Week, independent art project space Garažas, UAB Grafų baldai, VšĮ Aksida.
Festival designer – Marius Žalneravičius