performance and scenography triptych
A collaborative format by Irina Komissarova, Ana Lipps, and Ella Skinner — bringing three previously autonomous works into one temporary composition.
Presented within Performance Art Weekend (Kaunas Artists’ House), curated by Edvinas Grinkevičius.
Maironis Museum of Lithuanian Literature, Kaunas, Lithuania.
October 18, 2025.
Credits
Creators: Irina Komissarova, Ana Lipps, Ella Skinner
Organized by: Kaunas Artists’ House
Tech support: Arūnas Peškaitis, Valentyn Moroz
Photography: Vytis Mantrimas
What were once separate statements align into a temporary composition — fluid, adaptive, alive — before returning to their own distinct trajectories.
For one evening, three works breathe together: touching at their edges, briefly forming a shared pulse before drifting back into their own orbits.
Cannibalisms moves through dream, ritual, and frenzy without flattening the truth of each voice. It approaches cannibalism as a metaphor of systemic consumption: how bodies, identities, and agency are extracted, commodified, and erased — within surveillance cultures, and within patriarchal, heteronormative, and authoritarian scripts that discipline intimacy and punish dissent. The grotesque becomes a method of clarity: a way to hold rage, catharsis, and collective digestion in the same room.
Content note: simulated violence, blood, explicit imagery, and hate speech related to misogyny, transphobia, and gender-based violence. 18+.
