{"id":1968,"date":"2026-06-15T21:07:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T18:07:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parc.lmta.lt\/renginys\/lecture-by-the-duo-moreskinsound-recalling-new-ritualsmoreskinsound-dueto-paskaita-prisimenant-naujuosius-ritualus\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T21:06:30","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T18:06:30","slug":"lecture-by-the-duo-moreskinsound-recalling-new-ritualsmoreskinsound-dueto-paskaita-prisimenant-naujuosius-ritualus","status":"publish","type":"renginys","link":"https:\/\/parc.lmta.lt\/en\/renginys\/lecture-by-the-duo-moreskinsound-recalling-new-ritualsmoreskinsound-dueto-paskaita-prisimenant-naujuosius-ritualus\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture by \u201cMoreskinsound\u201d: \u201cRecalling New Rituals\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Tuesday, June 9, 2026, 2 p.m.
LMTA Central Building, Balcony Theatre (Gedimino ave. 42, Vilnius)<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lecture \u201cRecalling New Rituals\u201d by composer and author David Toop and performance and visual artist Ania Psenitsnikova<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMoreskinsound\u201d is a duo of musician \/ writer David Toop and performance and visual artist Ania Psenitsnikova. We explore extremes of stillness, working with space, presence and the intensity of punctuated silence and its impact on bodies. Our work encompasses live performance using found objects and instruments, flutes, aerial movement and inactions. We also enact non-public events in remarkable spaces, in sea caves, clifftops and alien landscapes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For our lecture \u2013 \u201cRecalling New Rituals\u201d \u2013 we will talk about what we call fluidity of practice, an improvisational approach to exploring space through movement and sound. For many people, their engagement with place has become an \u201cInstagram\u201d opportunity. How then to enter more deeply into the spirit of a place in order to create new rituals? Part of this story comes from our past works and research into Siberian and Yanomami shamanism, Japanese Butoh<\/em> and improvisation. We work with humble materials, avoiding theatre and melodrama. The important point is how to enter a space and how to leave without a trace. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Photo by Luke Fowler<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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BIOGRAPHY<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since 2023 \u201cMoreskinsound\u201d public performances have included the National Gallery London, Prague, Basel, Tartu, Volume Festival Sydney, Punkt Festival Kristiansand, Edinburgh and Glasgow, Tokyo, Fukuoka, Kyoto, Nagasaki, Tatsuo Mingei Museum, Nagano. Non-public events, described as inactions, have been recorded in Cornwall, Australia, Norway, Kunisaki Peninsula, Japan, a cave of bats in Krabi, Thailand, and the ancient and silent Viru peat bog, Estonia. All of these activities can culminate in workshops which explore improvisation, listening, movement, objects, materials and the nature of space. \u201cFrom the ceiling of this dark room a swathe of material hung down and the shadow of a shape began to dilate like an accordion opening out, slowly an arm unfolded; this was Psenitsnikova as chrysalis becoming human body.\u201d Jazzwise, November 2024. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

David Toop is a musician, writer and curator. He has been developing a practice that crosses boundaries of sound, listening, music and materials since 1970. This encompasses improvised music performance, writing, electronic sound, field recording, exhibition curating, sound art installations and opera. Artists he has performed with include Ryuichi Sakamoto, Thurston Moore, Sidsel Endresen, Elaine Mitchener, Henry Grimes, Akio Suzuki and Rie Nakajima, along with butoh dancers Mitsutaka Ishii and Min Tanaka. His books include \u201cOcean of Sound\u201d, \u201cInto the Maelstrom\u201d, \u201cSinister Resonance\u201d and \u201cTwo-Headed Doctor\u201d and his record releases include \u201cEntities Inertias and Faint Beings\u201d, \u201cApparition Paintings\u201d, \u201cThe Shell That Speaks the Sea\u201d, \u201cGarden of Shadows and Light\u201d and his 1978 recordings of Yanomami shamanism, \u201cLost Shadows: In Defence of the Soul\u201d. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ania Psenitsnikova is a visual and performance artist and curator. Born in Estonia, she has travelled and studied with Flavia Ghisalberti, Moeno Wakamatsu, Masaki Iwana and Daisuke Yoshimoto. Studying piano, classical guitar, voice and accordion in music school and independently since 1988, she has worked as an aerial performance artist since 2011. In the same year she graduated with a First degree in Performance and Visual Arts: Dance at Brighton University. Between 2015 to the present she has collaborated with Dasha Apakhonchich, co-curating seven exhibitions in four countries, exploring the censorship phenomenon and participating in performances and events, include the \u201cGrow and Decay\u201d ecological festival in Estonia. Their exhibition, \u201cOne Can Not Be Too Careful\u201d, Feminist Edition, was nominated for the best visual art award in \u201cBrighton Fringe\u201d Festival, 2018.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More information:
https:\/\/www.moreskinsound.com\/<\/a>
https:\/\/instagram.com\/moreskinsound<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Organised by LMTA Centre of Excellence | LMTA PARC
Free entry!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Lecture recording:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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