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Meet Ieva Jakusa, the second resident of the summer cycle of the Resistance Song Residency.
Ieva Jakusa is an artist exploring how folklore and ritual act as living systems shaping collective identity and material culture. Working with media installations and print, she weaves research into form and narrative. Her work has been presented in group exhibitions at Van Abbemuseum, Rewire Festival, Kim?, and GOGBOT. She holds an MA from the Royal Academy of Arts, The Hague, and a BA from Design Academy Eindhoven.
Ieva will work with collective singing to investigate how choir traditions shape and regulate the voice. During the residency, she will organise participatory singing sessions combining Lithuanian oral singing practices and fragments of well-known choir repertoire, sung without fixed voice parts and recorded in raw, minimal setups. Through these sessions and recordings, the project examines how precision, synchronisation, and ideas of “correct” singing are produced, and what becomes audible when these structures begin to break down.
Resistance Song Residency explores the political, social, and affective dimensions of song, examining how collective singing can foster solidarity, healing, and shared ritual. The summer cycle of the residency is curated by Jūra Elena Šedytė.
Resistance Song Residency is funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers’ Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture.
SODAS 2123 activities are supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and Vilnius City Municipality.