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On Wednesday, 26 August at 7 pm, you are invited to CAC Reading Room to an evening of performance, presentation and participatory listening with artists Stella Massa (ShyStella) and Ieva Jakusa, presenting the outcomes of their research developed during the Resistance Song Residency at Sodas 2123.
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Stella Massa/ShyStella will invite you to be a part of Karelian Community Singing participatory performance exploring collective singing as a living cultural practice and a space for connection, remembrance, and shared presence. Drawing from Karelian communal singing traditions, archival material from the former rural municipality of Vyborg – where Stella’s family roots originate – and contemporary sound practices, the work moves between performance, sound art, and social gathering.
Rather than treating tradition as something fixed, Stella approaches it as a living practice that continues to evolve through participation, care, and intergenerational exchange. Throughout the evening, audience is invited not only to listen, but also to sing, remember, and become part of a shared sonic experience.
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Ieva Jakusa will present Agreement, Pending—a listening session and participatory presentation developed through her artistic research on sutartinės, Lithuania’s polyphonic singing tradition.
Taking sutartinės as a way of thinking about oral culture, the project asks what happens when living traditions become institutionalised. How can knowledge continue to circulate through listening, repetition, and collective memory rather than documentation alone?
Combining storytelling, field recordings, and reflections from Ieva’s research in Vilnius, the presentation gradually shifts into an exercise in oral transmission. At the end of the evening, each participant will leave carrying a short story, invited to pass it on to three other people—allowing it to continue changing through retelling, just as living traditions always have.
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The event is presented as part of Resistance Song Residency, an international residency programme exploring the political, social, and affective dimensions of song and collective voice.
Organiser: SODAS 2123
Partner: CAC
Curators/coordinators of the Resistance Song Residency at SODAS 2123: Agnė Bagdžiūnaitė, Jūra Elena Šedytė
Resistance Song Residency is supported by the Nordic-Baltic Mobility Programme for Culture of the Nordic Council of Ministers.
SODAS 2123 activities are supported by the Lithuanian Council for Culture and the Vilnius City Municipality.