JMDT | BIG PHARMA rež. Arturas Bumšteinas

Arturas Bumšteinas BIG PHARMA vocal performance

2020 264 million people worldwide suffer from depression. Medicine or "Big Pharma" is trying to fight depression. This designation, often used by the media, causes outrage for some and salvation for others. It is a ritual for the composer and director Artur Bumštein, who is presenting the premiere at the Juozas Miltinis Drama Theater. Delving into a complex and multifaceted topic, the creator first of all offers to look at the ritualistic nature of medication use today and the inertia surrounding it. The starting point and axis of the story became the instruction sheet for the use of antidepressants - it is the texts written in it that are performed on stage by the actors of the drama theater. "Indeed, this is exactly what happens on stage," the composer usually says, but what do the instructions of pharmacists, familiar to many at first glance, reveal? What do everyday memorized and repeated references turn into? How can monotonous instructions become an emotionally impactful instrument?

Arturas Bumšteinas is an interdisciplinary Lithuanian artist whose work is born from the collision of sounds, music and visual art. His activities should be divided into separate branches: experimental music, acoustic sound works, sound installations, theater works, radio art, etc. i.e. A. Bumšteinas is the first Lithuanian artist who used the Internet in his work in the mid-1990s: he put the sounds sent by people all over the world into a collage composition. Since 2000 he creates and collaborates with recognized Lithuanian and foreign music and theater creators, including Vladimir Tarasovas, Krystianas Lupa, Žilvins Kempinas, Gintautas Trimakas, Lina Lapelytė, Vaiva Grainytė, Anton Lukoszevieze and others. The artist's works are presented in various galleries in the country and around the world, from the Contemporary Art Center in Vilnius to Berlin or the US art festivals.

2013 his radio art work was awarded the EURORADIO "Palma Ars Acustica" prize. in 2021 for the works created at the State Youth Theater, A. Bumšteins won the Golden Cross of the Stage.

Premiere - 2021 December 3 and 4
Small Hall of the Juoz Miltinis Drama Theater

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