PSILICONE THEATRE AND CHUI - HAIRY HAIRY MOUTH - Kauno Bienalė

PSILICONE THEATRE AND CHUI – HAIRY HAIRY MOUTH

2017-07-26

The project builds on the period of prosperity and downfall of the Lithuanian textile industry from 1960 to 1998 – the not so distant times of cooperatives. The aspect of downfall and transformation is the most interesting in these economic processes. Energy accumulated during several decades did not go away with the collapse of textile companies and gigantic industrial machines, but instead shattered into myriads of knitting cooperatives scattered across homes, basements and garages. This energy like a powerful charge amassed by the industry migrated to the personalities of textile artists and prompted the rise of the conceptual phenomenon of textile art in Kaunas. The music was composed and is performed live during the show by the jazz trio Chui from Croatia. Toni Starešinić, Vojkan Jocić and Janko Novoselić recall similar economic processes in the former Yugoslavia. The silicone characters were created by Auksė Petrulienė – the jittery factory guard and the marsupial female workers with an ability to conceal stolen yarn within their bodies. The main character is the factory itself – an ever-wakeful creature filled by changing shifts of workers.

Video: Aušra Linkevičiūtė