dark patterns
by Irina Komissarova and Muza de la Luz
festival "Alchemy of Becoming"
Ubiškės3 Residency, Lithuania
August, 2025
What happened in the dark corners of the structures? When we as “others”: women, femmes, outcasts, and queers, are born into this world, why are we saddled with the pressures of silence and acceptance of our fates?
How can we start to whisper our traumas and fears, to begin to shed what doesn’t belong to us? How do we begin to let go?
We invite you to whisper your secrets into the space to begin the unraveling and rebirth and make promises to ourselves and our future generations. We can choose to be different, but what do we offer? Do we bury what’s left?