3rd ūmėdė [uːmeədeə] festival 2025

Moved by Water @viktorijajanauskiene @energy_mapping , closing event of Bathing & Beyond program @umedefest . Developed through the Wastu® Lithuania water experience and somatic bodywork, this offers a sensory immersion in water that interlaces with embodied authentic movement, allowing participants to sense the threshold between the self, water, and the unseen forces connecting us to the greater aquatic body of life. Movement combined with the sound waves of instruments, gongs, Tibetan bowls, bells, and Eglė Vilpišauskienė’s voice rippling in space and water creates invisible waves that connect the body and the environment through expanded awareness and cellular consciousness, strengthening experiences of care, support, and transformation. Viktorija is a Watsu® therapist, active since the year 2011, an AQVUS underwater modality practitioner, a certified Integrated Body and Movement Therapy (IBMT) practitioner, merging elements of Shiatsu, 5-element theory, somatic practices, and Chinese image medicine into her work, practicing Jun Juan qigong and energy work. She works individually and with groups, leading somatic meditations. Eglė Vilpišauskienė is a professional art therapist, graduated from Metafora School in Barcelona, Spain. Egle has over 10 years of experience working with individuals and running therapy group sessions across different age groups. In addition to her practice as an art therapist, Egle is a certified mineral therapy specialist and Gong master from Vilnius, Lithuania. She has completed an intensive sound healing course in Lithuania, as well as specialized training in Tibetan singing bowl massage. Her practices also include creating healing drawings/portals, combining her voice with the power of light language, movement, therapeutic instruments and minerals to open transformative spaces. Filmed by @vita.klimasevska Bathing & Beyond is supported by @nordiskkulturfond #watertemples #soundbathing #authenticmovement #bathingandbeyond #ūmėdėfestival #waterprayer #innerwaters #cellulardance

Lygiai prieš dvi savaites kunkuliavo ūmėdė festivalis 2025: sodas, krūsnis, laboratorija ir eteris - dalinamė dieninės programos dalimi ir laukite kitų įspūdžių. Festivalis organizuotas kartu su @vda.famm foto: umede.lt archyvas ir @martynakai_ Martyna Kairaitytė

Lygiai prieš dvi savaites atidarėme ūmėdė festivalį 2025: sodas, krūsnis, laboratorija ir eteris su Vitalis Vitaleus ir Gailė Cijūnaitytė išvyka “Aukštas spaudimas”, Šarūnas Paškevičius paskaita apie grybus ir ilgaamžiškumą bei Mateusz Pitala & Monika Raźny Obuolių vakariene, Nazare Soares ir Saulius Leonawičius ugnies uždegimu tipyje su programa Bathing & Beyon, Mercedes Krapovickas Bandoneono performansu, Miki Ambrózy ir Risk Hasekamp laboratorija “Nuo stebuklingo iki išmetamo: pasakojimas apie veikimo laisvę” ir daugeliu kitų menininkų kūrinių Visa programa čia https://umede.lt/program-2025/

"imagine GOAT talking IV" huge thank you goes to a friend and a performer of this goats edition @kiprasdcerniauskas ❤️‍🔥 also for making an amazing self-documentation. pics by Ivan Sanczewski soundscape by dear @samuelbarbierficat styling, text and directing by me.

Post-Covid Blues: Coughscape (2025) Sound installation, 6 channels, 6 speakers A site-responsive sound intervention exploring affective and bodily reactions emerging within the space of listening. Emitting cough sounds through a dispersed speaker array, the coughscape invites close listening and attentiveness to ‘the Other’. Rooted in the dialogical essay «postcovid blues» by Yasya Minenkova and Yanis Proshkinas, the work traces post-participation residues, examining how the pandemic recoded bodily sounds into biopolitical markers and inviting audiences to register their own emotional and sensory responses — distance, vigilance, responsiveness. Artists: Yanis Proshkinas, Yasya Minenkova, Denis Bykosvky (AIRE collective) photo: @laurynas.skeisgiela Exhibition view, ūmėdė festival, SODAS 2123, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2025

Flashbacks from Smoking Mirror’s presentation at @umedefest - great vibes, thanks to the organizers @gailegriciute @konspektuojanti @ignaspavliukevicius for their support, more performances coming soon #divination #interfaces #atmosphere #listening #scrying #aeromancy #tezcatlipoca

It has been a week since Bathing & Beyond took place @umedefest @sodas2123 , Vilnius. I want to express my deepest gratitude to everyone who supported, trusted, and shared presence within this project — artists, organisers, and volunteers. Thank you for being part of this beautiful journey into fluids, liquids, bathings, weaving sea storymaking, and all the unseen confluences we lived together through these luminous days. @jolanta.sendaite_paulauskiene @saulius_leonawicius @viktorijajanauskiene @energy_mapping @theweavereva @whitemirroroddities , Eirini Sourgiadaki & Vytautas Michelkevicius. I am so touched by each of the works, the kindness, and the way we held space with such care — a weaving of inclusion, many voices nurturing the living spirit of this project. Together, we reclaim threads once lost — reweaving Baltic Sea stories of resilience , repair, and renewal. We rediscover the body as a an ecosystem of ancestral liquidities, traveling to the origins of life, receiving liquid light codes deep within our cells — from the cosmic ocean. Recently, I came across a reflection about how musicians in an orchestra learn to breathe together — to create harmony rather than seek to stand out. It felt like the essence of Bathing & Beyond: how we, too, are learning to move and create as one body — attuned, listening, and surrendering to the collective rhythm that carries us. In this shared flow, we rediscover the true beauty of listening — a symphony of care, memory, and belonging. Through temperature, sound and water, we remember the power of surrender, sacred union, and harmony. We are ready to love , acknowledge and release what divides us. ✨💧✨ The project is supported by @nordiskkulturfond , @yauya.lt saunas , @oca_norway , @norwayinlithuania . Partly supported by Lithuanian Council for Culture, and Vilnius City Municipality. Curated by Nazaré Soares @edenbaths Photos by @vita.klimasevska , @jolanta.sendaite_paulauskiene & @umedefest #BathingAndBeyond #Umedefest #ArtandEcology #Hydrofeminism #WaterRituals #steambath #aquaticbodywork #FluidBodies #MoreThanHuman #CollectiveCare #interconnectedness #authenticmovement #lemuriancodes #soundhealing

Conversations on Knots as a First media Nets and Connections – Workshop & Installation at @umedefest 2025 @sodas2123 @edenbaths Grateful for these connections. Together, we reclaim threads once lost to the sea, reweaving stories of resilience, repair, and renewal. An installation and participatory workshop reimagining discarded fishing nets as vessels of ecological memory and transformation. Participants explore the tactile imprints of marine life and the passage of time on the nets, engaging in dialogue about water pollution, cultural continuity, and collective repair.

Third ūmėdė.lt festival was closed around bonfire. Thanks to all the artists, facilitators and supporters! Artists: Aistė Laisvė Viršulytė, Allosci, Álino (Pijus Chraptavičius and Leonardas Mekionis), Antonina Nowacka, Audrius Beinorius, Banana Frenkel & Jan Glöckner, Beatričė Zaveckaitė and Anna Fedoronchuk, Becca-Willow Moss, Daniela Natale, Dárida Rodrigues, David Quigley, Eirini Sourgiadaki, Elizabeth Shores, Eva Bakkeslett, Greta Ona, Hara Shin, Ieva Rižė, Irina Gheorge, Jolanta Sendaitė-Paulauskienė, Juan Duarte Regino, Katažyna Jankovska, Kathy D’Arcy, Labor Neunzehn (Valentina Besegher Scotti and Alessandro Massobrio), Lukas Dovydėnas, Maija Demitere, Malka Pinjara, Mari Keski-Korsu, Mari-Liis Rebane & Timo Toots, Mateusz Pitala, Monika Razny, Mercedes Krapovickas, Miklós (Miki) Ambrózy and Risk Hazekamp, Nazaré Soares, Viktorija Tylos Prisilietimas, Eglė Vilpišauskienė, Rosemary Lee, Rūta Butkutė, Saulius Leonawičius, Ting-Chia Wu, Viktória Revická, Viltė Bražiūnaitė-Tomas Sinkevičius, Varvara Spilt, Vincent Roumagnac, Vygintas Orlovas, Vitalij Červiakov & Gailė Cijūnaitytė, SPORK Sound kitchen (Vytautas Bikauskas and Bailey Polkinghorne), AIRE collective (Yanis Proshkinas, Denis Bykovskiy, Yasya Minenkova) Artistic director, founder and co-curator: Vytautas Michelkevičius Programme Curators and co-founders: Gailė Griciūtė, Ignas Pavliukevičius Contributing curators: Nazaré Soares (Bathing and Beyond), Johanna Zanon, Katažyna Jankovska and others Transmediale film programme curator: Anna-Lena Panter; Artists: Gala Hernández López, Hana Yoo, Anan Fries, Anna Engelhardt & Mark Cinkevich, Nina Davies Curators of the Young Artists’ Film Program: Milda Trimakaitė and Agnė Balandžiūnaitė Artists’ films: Juozas Žutautas, Sonata Vilkevičiūtė, Jorė Černiauskaitė, Ignotas Kuprys, Sofija Laurušonytė, Robertas Nevecka, Markas Montvilovas, Eglė Davidavičė, Dominykas Andriuškevičius, Ignas Montvilovas, Beatričė Jackutė And all the volunteers http://umede.lt/about/

Viltė Bražiūnaitė and Tomas Sinkevičius Sunflower October 16 (Full day) October 17 (Full day) October 18 (Full day) A video that explores climate anxiety from the perspective of a non-human protagonist – a sunflower. More information about program: http://umede.lt/program-2025/ *** Artist duo Tomas Sinkevičius and Vilte Bražiūnaitė present their video work "Sunflower" (2023), which explores climate anxiety in a world undergoing environmental shifts. These shifts are addressed through a non-human protagonist – a sunflower. The video weaves together the perspectives of humans, plants, and technologies to reflect on ecological fragility and the awkward entanglement of human and non-human worlds.

Viktória Revická October 16 (Full day) October 17 (Full day) October 18 (Full day) Roots twist beneath asphalt, blurring living and inanimate, opening vulnerable attunements to urban ecologies. More information about program: http://umede.lt/program-2025/ *** "The performance How Much the Roots Twist Under the Asphalt poetically blurs the distinction between living and inanimate entities and encourages sensitization to one's surroundings. It shows the idea of life under our cities, how roots move under the asphalt, how they intertwine and communicate. Combined with the sound and vocals of the author's lyrics, we find ourselves thinking out loud in an open and honest way, putting us in awkward and vulnerable situations that may be familiar. To grasp the principle of non-human actors, we must release the need to label things and instead begin to sense them. keywords: videoperformance, poetic text, slowness, presence, attunement to the environment, roots, asphalt, environment, vulnerability, non-human, natural rhythms in urban space"

Johanna Zanon October 16 (Full day) October 17 (Full day) October 18 (Full day) Johanna will contribute to the discursive context of the festival, moderate some of the interventions, and foster conversations among participants and audiences More infromation about program: http://umede.lt/program-2025/