The Ūmėdė.lt team is pleased to announce a preliminary list of artists, which includes more than 50 participants. The detailed program will be available in mid-September – follow us for updates. The festival and symposium will begin on the morning of October 16 and end late on the evening of October 19, so reserve these days for the full festival experience.
Participants: 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, Filippos Raskovic, 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, 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)
The third festival ūmėdė 2025 welcomes us down to earth to question why we are so awkwardly placed here.
After media and screen fatigueness and sensory overload we invite you down to earth, down to body, down to roots to exchange on what we have learned out there and was it worth the trip?
New media integration into art and society was done in a happy-go-lucky way, now we would like to rewind and freeze some of the best moments. Lets watch and listen to them in slow motion all together around the real bonfire.
Third edition of umede.lt festival will happen on October 16-19th at SODAS 2123 (Vilnius, LT) site and invites you to experience all four festival stages (strands): sodas (garden), krūsnis (heap of stones), laboratory and ether.
Festival curators: Vytautas Michelkevičius, Gailė Griciūtė, Ignas Pavliukevičius
Contributing curators: Nazaré Soares (Bathing & Beyond), Johanna Zanon, Anna Mikkola, Katažyna Jankovska and others
Curatorial assistant and producer Emilija Zakarauskaitė
Transmediale film programme curator: Anna-Lena Panter
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
Sound engineer: Kipras Dominas
Sonic landscape and amplifiers: Vytautas Budzejus
Visuals Ignas Pavliukevičius
Location: SODAS 2123, and various locations in the city
Organized by NGO MENE in collaboration with Vilnius Academy of Arts
Partners: FAMM department of Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuanian Interdisciplinary Artists’ Association (LTMKS), SODAS 2123, Estafetė, Downtown forest, Yauya.lt, Eden Baths and others
Festival is supported by Lithuanian Council for Culture, Vilnius City Municipality, Nordisk Kulturfond – Globus Program, OCA (Office for Contemporary Art Norway), all participants and their supporters
contact: fest@umede.lt