PaulinaPukyte/Performance

PAULINA PUKYTĖ / Performance

Every day at noon a singer comes unannounced and sings two Yiddish songs to the emptiness of Democrats Square.
The suburb of Vilijampole (Slobodka) was the location where all the Kaunas Jews were forced to move in July 1941, when the Kaunas Ghetto was established. It was transformed into a concentration camp in 1943 and liquidated in 1944. Here, in the place known during the ghetto period as Demokratu Square, on 28th October, 1941 a mass selection of the Ghetto inhabitants, known as the Big Action, took place, which resulted in the killing of 9,200 men, women and children in Fort IX. “Snow was falling, mixed with rain.” Up until 2019 there was no memorial or sign there to mark this terrible event and its victims.

At Noon In Democrats Square
2017 Vilijampole, Kaunas
Site-specific performative intervention
Duration 7 min. Daily at 12 noon for 10 weeks
Singer: Gabrielė Kuzmickaitė
Video documentation: Marius Paplauskis

„Iš peties“ (“With Full Strength”)
2022
text-based performance, 12' video
The text is composed of some lines from poems of Salomėja Nėris, a well-known and controversial female Lithuanian poet of mid-20th century, and a lot of phrases from the Internet with the same words.

I Was Told I Look Like A Pig
2021
text-based performance, 1’ video installation

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