Lina Lapelytė: Everything I Do, I Do It Big

9 January–11 January 2014
Roberts Institute of Art

Everything I Do, I Do It Big is a three-day long exhibition, conceived as an exploration of the DRAF’s Camden space. The project inhabits the gallery site as a stage or as a place for action, tension, repetition and chance.

London-based Lithuanian artist Lina Lapelytė will feature new and existing works including performative installations, videos and events. On the evening of 9 January at 7 pm there will be the first performance of Here Are You?, a new work constructed using early music originally composed for castrati singers.

Performers and contributing artists include Nouria Bah, Ornella Biagetti, Lieve Carchon, Anat Ben David, Angharad Davies, Sharon Gal, Phil Goss, Rebecca La Horrox, Heidi Heidelberg, Kate Lowry, Nissa Nishikawa, Margarita Zafrilla Olayo, Federico Strate Pezdirc, Andrea Puerta, Sebastian Schmidt, Florence Shaw, Maria Sideri, PA Skantze and Miguel Valdivia.

With support from The Ministry of Culture of The Republic of Lithuania.

Roberts Institute of Art

Lina Lapelytė, Where Are You?, 2014, performance (on 9 January). Performers: PA Skantze, Sharon Gal, Viviene Griffits, Kate Lowry.

Courtesy the artist

Lina Lapelytė

Lina Lapelytė is an artist living and working in London and Vilnius. She holds a BA in classical violin (2006), BA in Sound Arts (2009) and MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London (2013).

Her performance-based practice is rooted in music and flirts with pop culture, gender stereotypes, aging and nostalgia. Throughout her artistic career, Lapelytė has explored various forms of performativity, crossing genre boundaries while entwining folk rituals with popular music and opera formats, frequently using stylised expression, grotesque and conceptual musicality.