1. Short introduction
2. Grants, fellowships, project funding
3. Residencies
4. Sound (live & releases)
5. Visual performance
6. Exhibitions (selection)
7. Film and videowork (selection)
8. Curatorial and art production practice
9. Publications (selection)
10. Facilitator practice
11. Lectures, /public/ talks, interviews

Short introduction

I am an artist and researcher, with the background in literature (BA in Lithuanian and Italian Philology, Vilnius University 2006), filmmaking (diploma in audiovisual production, Scuola APM di Saluzzo 2010) and social anthropology (MSSc, Vytautas Magnus University, Lithuania, 2019, currently doctoral candidate at the University of Tartu, Estonia). My artistic interest lies within perceptions of and responses to disaster; in ways of working with loss, rupture and grief; in relationships among various beings; states of being/with and states of becoming/through. My current work is situated between environmental anthropology and art. Much of my work can be found here: dainadieva.org & dainadieva.bandcamp.com.

Grants, fellowships, project funding

• 2024 Oct – 2025 May fellowship at in:herit.heritage in transformation, BMBF-funded Käte Hamburger Kolleg based at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
• 2024 Culture Moves Europe mobility grant, funded by the European Union and Goethe-Institut, for the artistic research project on ecocide in Ukraine
• 2023 Lithuanian Culture Council mobility grant for a residency period in Maajaam artist residency
• 2021 Dora Pluss Doctoral dissertation fieldwork mobility grantee (funded by European Regional Development Fund and Estonian Government)
• 2020 Lithuanian Culture Council grant for sound research and installation betyles erdves (silence-less spaces)
• 2018 Nordic Culture Point artist mobility grant to perform in Paikkari Performance Art Festival Finland
• 2018 Nordic Culture Point artist mobility grant to perform with Art Value project in Stockholm R1 with Das Vegas
• 2016 Lithuanian Culture Council grant for development and production of performance project Liquid Presence for the Bristol Biennial 2016
• 2015 Nordic Culture Point artist mobility grant to participate in Nordic Summer University Symposium in Tallinn, Estonia
• 2015 Vilnius Academy of Arts grant for the mobility and performance in Leipzig, Germany
• 2015 Lithuanian Culture Council grant for the production of performance Blank: a Provocation for 3 Rolls of Paper and a Performer in Leipzig, Germany
• 2014 Kaunas Municipality grant for performance/exchange in London, UK
• 2014 Vilnius Academy of Arts grant for performances to be presented in DE and UK
• 2014 Educational grant from the Lithuanian Ministry of Culture
• 2013 Young artists’ project grant from Kaunas Municipality to organise performance art workshops and lectures in the framework of the International Performance Art Festival CREATurE Live Art
• 2012 Young artists’ project grant from Kaunas Municipality for performance art workshops for young artists in the framework of the International Performance Art Festival CREATurE Live Art
• 2008 French Ministry of Youth, Culture and Sports grant for youth projects – grant for short documentary film Us, Others

Residencies

• 2024 on residency at Flux Sensibles, France
• 2023 on residency in Maajaam, Estonia
• 2020 on residency in Rokiškis Contemporary Art Festival Start|as, Lithuania
• 2019 on residency in Rokiškis Contemporary Art Festival Start|as, Lithuania
• 2019 on residency in CCC/Vila Flor, Guimaraes (Portugal) with Anaesthetize project by Mauricia | Neves
• 2019 on residency in O Espaco do Tempo, Montemor-o-Novo (Portugal) with Anaesthetize project by Mauricia | Neves
• 2018 on residency in Arts Printinghouse, Vilnius (Lithuania) with Anaesthetize project by Mauricia | Neves
• 2017-2018 artist on residency in AirWro programme in Wroclaw, Poland
• 2017 artist on residency in Žagarė Fringe Festival in Žagarė, Lithuania
• 2017 Artist on a short-term residency / training programme by MIGAA at Allenheads Contemporary Arts, UK
• 2016 Artist in residence in WB Motion “Art-Rageous” project, Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany
• 2016 Artist in residence in Thingeyri, Iceland, in the framework of “Questioning Arts” residency programme
• 2015 Artist in residence in “Utena art center” Lithuanian-Icelandic residency programme “Questioning Arts”
• 2012 Artist in residence in “Ptarmigan” project space, Tallinn, Estonia
• 2012 Artist in residence in KKKC, Klaipeda, Lithuania

Sound (live & releases)

• 2025 sound installation introductions at group exhibition Flux Sensibles, Meno parkas, Kaunas 18 Apr-18 May.
• 2025 mini concert tour in Leipzig , Dresden, Berlin, 4-7 April. With Skeldos.
• 2024 release of a compilation album Drone-Mind // Mind-Drone vol.9 (Drone Records), Aug.
• 2023 playing live at November Noise /2/, xi.20, Vilnius.
• 2023 release of Songs of Unearthly Longing album with Calitys band on Cyclic Law, FR.
• 2023 live at Mėnuo Juodaragis open air festival, LT.
• 2023 release of Attunement track + publishing Attunement, or to Recognize the Unspectacular text, online.
• 2023 producing and releasing Rift, a compilation to support earthquake victims in Rojava; initiative w. Cedrik Fermont (Syrphe) and AGF (Poem Producer), online.
• 2023 composer and sound director for Voices from Bakhmut, short film by Ihor Babaiev, UA.
• 2023 composer and sound designer for Slowly Walking, Smoothly Thinking, short film by Yurii Yudin, UA.
• 2023 composer for Niflheim world in the virtual online environment Yggdrasil 9 Worlds, on invite by Martins Rokis, LV.
• 2022 producer of album OÏ​DA – see link for info about this production meant to support Ukrainian paramedics.
• 2022 live at Technē’22 sound/art festival, Vilnius, LT.
• 2022 author of text+soundtrack on *As A Journal magazine.
• 2022 live for Anesthetize (dance) by Mauricia Barreira Neves, Loule, PT.
• 2021 contributor to ISOLATION compilation (cass & digital), by Club Debil, DE.
• 2021 live in Vienna at Focus Osteuropa event, curated by Brigitta Bödenauer.
• 2021 composer for And Still We Move (dance) by Joana Castro and Mauricia Barreira Neves, premiered in Lisbon.
• 2021 participant in Belka’s Noise / Belkos triukšmas group sound exhibition, Klaipėda, LT.
• 2021 release of Gedulo vartai album on cassette and online.
• 2020 live online at Collection Murumurum II (online/pandemic concert series).
• 2020 solo sound installation / exhibition betylės erdvės Meno Parkas contemporary art gallery and online, Kaunas, LT.
• 2020 release of Budynės album. Self-release, available online and live only.
• 2020 live with Bilwa (William Costa) on Kala Sound System @ Culture Night, Vilnius, LT.
• 2020 live Budynės. Sonata for dying light – audiovisual composition, presented live at Bukantė & Kuliai, Sept 18-19, LT. W. Gabija Juknevičiūtė (cello), Laura Lapinskė (accordion), Matulaityte Akvile (camera & editing), Valentinas Charitonovas (coordinator of the production).
• 2020 collaborative residency at Contemporary Art Festival START|as, Rokiškis, LT (Aug) with dance companyLow Air, sound artist Simonas Nekrošius and dancer/choreographer Ieva Lapelytė. Co-producing Blue Blue dance piece.
• 2020 live noise set for Parakas: Žuvienė event at the Gunpowder Warehouse, part of Kaunas Fortress.
• 2019 composer for the play by Kristina Marija Kulinič Dedukas, Lithuanian National Drama Theater.
• 2019 live sound for Anesthetize by Mauricia Barreira Neves, Faró, PT.
• 2019 live at Buitis 2: Paplavokas festival, org. by GHIA, Kaunas, LT.
• 2019 live at Contemporary Art Festival START|as, Rokiškis, LT.
• 2019 live at Elevated Memory Elevated Manor at Trakų Vokė, LT.
• 2019 live at Anthropology Day, underground passage, on invitation by Anthropos.lt, Kaunas, LT.
• 2019 live at xi20, with Mindaugas Badokas (guitar & programming) opening for Alpha Strategy, Vilnius, LT.
• 2019 live at Kirtimu Kulturos Centras, with Mindaugas Badokas (guitar & programming) opening for Hekla, Vilnius, LT.
• 2019 composing and performing live sound for Anesthetize by Mauricia Barreira Neves. On residency at  O Espaço do Tempo, Montemor-o-Novo and Centro Cultural Villa Flor, Guimaraes, PT.
• 2018 research and composing for Anesthetize by Mauricia Barreira Neves. On residency at Menų spaustuvė, Vilnius, LT.
• 2018 release of hibou // special mini album commissioned by Kaunas Magazine Į, Kaunas, LT.
• 2018 live at Skanu Mežs opening event, Riga, LV.
• 2018 live at Mėnuo Juodaragis, LT. With a composition for quartet: Gabija Juknevičiūtė (cello), Mindaugas Badokas (percussion and synth), Adomas Lapinskas (drums).
• 2018 soundtrack for the launch event of the translation of Lovecraft stories collection, commissioned by Kitos Knygos publishing house.
• 2017 live concert at AREA industrial music festival, Kaunas, LT.
• 2017 live soundtrack for CHAOS project with Maurícia Barreira Neves at Menų Spaustuvė (Arts Printinghouse), Vilnius.
• 2016 live at Grandis festival, alongside Deutch Nepal, Oorchach, Karkasas and others. Kablys Club, Vilnius.
• 2016 live @ Yukatan Extencion in Vilnius, alongside Morrigun and Raguvos.
• 2016 live sound & sound installation, in the framework of WB Wurzel Bewegung 2016, Germany.
• 2016 release of album “KAS“, by VIBORA.
• 2016 live at Nostalghia by GHIA org., Kaunas, LT
• 2015 live at Wroclaw Industrial Festival, Wroclaw, PL.
• 2015 live at Mėnuo Juodaragis open air festival, Zarasai, LT.
• 2015 live at ELEKTROSPIECIUS concert, Anykščiai, LT.
• 2015 release of “AVILIAI” album, created and recorded in collaboration with Skeldos.
• 2014 live tour in Wroclaw, Berlin, Leipzig, Dresden, with Obšrr, Oorchach and Skeldos.
• 2014 live in collaboration with Skeldos for Menuo Juodaragis open air festival, Skinderiškis dendrological reserve, LT.
• 2014 live at the art festival Kaunas in Art, gallery Meno Parkas, Kaunas, LT.
• 2013 live tour in DE: Berlin, Dresden, Munstre, Frankfurt, Mainz, with Oorchach and Bruzgynai.
• 2013 live at Zemlika Festival, Durbe, LV.
• 2013 live at Centras Festival, Kaunas, LT.
• 2012 live at Kafe Riga in Valmiera, LV.
• 2012 live in Hamburg and Bremen, Germany, alongside Aram Anam and Oorchach.
• 2012 live at Mėnuo Juodaragis festival, Zarasai, LT.
• 2012 live, opening for Nadja, alongside Oorchach. XI.20, Vilnius, LT.
• 2012 live at festival Speigas concerts, Kaunas and Vilnius, LT.
• 2012 live at festival Šerkšnas festival concerts, Kaunas and Vilnius, LT.
• 2011 soundtrack Mėlynos dainos for the performance Šarvai by Vaida Tamoševičiūtė, performed at Meno Parkas gallery, Kaunas, LT.
• 2011 live at Tundra electronic openair music festival, LT.
• 2011 release of Leaving the Garden album (CD+special edition box), by Coma XIII Section label, UK.
• 2011 live at Pasakų pelkė event, Vilnius, LT.
• 2011 live in Torino, IT, alongside Jitter.
• 2011 soundscape Yerma for the experimental film by Tommaso Pedone YermaS, IT.
• 2010 live at Technoir party, Torino, IT.
• 2009 release of Nakčia album, netlabel Darkwinter.
• 2009 live at EX-CHAOS event, part of “Music in Touch” festival of Music Research. Basilica San Saturno, Cagliari, IT.
• 2009 live at Tundra electronic openair music festival, LT.
• 2009 release of Incubi-Succubi album, in collaboration with Svart1, on Clinical Archives netlabel.
• 2009 live at Kupolės openair electronic music festival, LT.
• 2009 soundscape and video for Giedre Jank performance Asymptotic Loneliness, LT.
• 2009 soundscape Silver Breathing for Šarūnas Juknys installation, Meno Parkas gallery, LT.
• 2009 soundscape Water for Šarūnas Juknys installation, Artefaktai exhibition, Kaunas, LT.
• 2009 live with Šarūnas Juknys and Tadas Šlajus, Vartai gallery & VDU art gallery 101, LT.
• 2008 live in collaboration with Svart1, for the opening of painting exhibition by Daniele Serra, Sardegna, IT.
• 2008 live in collaboration with Svart1, Sardegna, IT.

Visual performance

• 2024 Wounded Landscape (III), performance for video, Tieranatomisches Teater, Berlin, DE
• 2024 Wounded Landscape (II), performance for video, Gulbiniškės, LT
• 2023 Wounded Landscape (I), performance for video, Ainu, EE
• 2018 Grieving Ritual in Paikkari Performance Festival, FI // with the support of Nordic Culture Point.
• 2018 performance with Das Vegas, Art Value: Auction in R1 experimental space, Stockholm, SE // with the support of Nordic Culture Point.
• 2018 Dialogue VII performance in Wroclaw, PL.
• 2018 Nature Morte avec Cendres, Rouille et Cris, POST gallery, Kaunas, LT.
• 2017 performances Tîmè: Memory & Decorum and Dialogue VI in Sofia Underground performance art festival in Sofia, Bulgaria.
• 2017 Therapy XI performed at Žagarė Fringe Festival, LT.
• 2016 Liquid Presence performance tryptic, at Kaunas LT / Turin IT / Bristol UK for the BRISTOL BIENNIAL. With support from Lithuanian Culture Council.
• 2016 performing Doină III at Ignalina museum, in the framework of Questioning Arts residency program.
• 2016 performing Doină II at Þingeyri, Iceland, in the framework of Questioning Arts residency program
• 2015 performing BLANK: A Provocation for 3 Rolls of Paper and a Performer at suniro exhibition, BÜKÜ gallery, Leipzig, DE. With support from Vilnius Academy of Arts.
• 2015 performing Doina, on residency in Utena art Center in the framework of Questioning Arts residency programme, Leliūnai, LT.
• 2015 performing Dowry III/Kraitis III, at Landart exhibition at Kairėnai botanical garden, LT.
• 2015 Dialogue V, performed in front of a Berlin Wall, DE.
• 2015 performances Dialogue, I to IV, performed in public spaces of the city of Venice, IT. Dialogue I performed in the frame of Infraction Performance Art Festival.
• 2015 Ilgesio, performance in collaboration with Vaida Tamoševičiūtė, for exhibition Juodos rožės, commissioned by Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Centre, Vilnius, LT.
• 2015 Spektaklis, performance in collaboration with Vaida Tamoševičiūtė, commissioned by SPEIGAS festival, Vilnius, LT.
• 2015 Therapy X, performed at Winter CREATurE event, POST gallery, Kaunas, LT.
• 2014 performance Dowry II, commissioned by Kaunas Biennial, Kaunas picture gallery, LT.
• 2014 Plaque at the oak tree, a performance in collaboration with Vaida Tamoševičiūtė, Russel Square, London, UK.
• 2014 performance Therapy IX: Empathy, Bristol Biennial, UK.
• 2014 performance Bestiarium, for Simbolis performance art festival in Plungė, LT.
• 2014 Silent Stories of Istanbul, IPA Istanbul Platform for Young Performance Artists 2014, Turkey.
• 2014 Spider Lullabies, in the framework of IPA Istanbul 2014 workshop led by Nezaket Ekici; Tarabya, Istanbul, Turkey.
• 2014 performance N.Ever.Last – Bind, in collaboration with Vaida Tamoševičiūtė, at Month of Performance Art – Berlin festival, DE.
• 2014 performance Therapy VII: Association, Month of Performance Art Berlin, DE.
• 2014 Therapy VIII: Autoportrait in Fire, at KOSMINE ODISEJA 2014 art festival, Titanikas gallery, Vilnius Academy of Arts, Vilnius, LT.
• 2013 Dowry / Kraitis in Meno Parkas gallery, Kaunas, LT.
• 2013 performance in collaboration with Vaida Tamoševičiūtė at Jonas Mekas Visual Art Center, Vilnius, LT.
• 2013 Therapy VI: distances/atstumai in POST gallery, Kaunas, LT.
• 2013 performance in collaboration with Vaida Tamoševičiūtė, Homo Ludens art festival, Jonava, LT.
• 2013 Therapy V: Apsivalymas / Cleansing, Vilnius – Botanical garden at Kairėnai, “Metamorphosis” Land Art festival, LT.
• 2013 performance Nature-Morte, on invite by Meno Parkas gallery, for VilniusART art fair, LT.
• 2013 performance Therapy IV: Habeo, CREATurE Live Art Performance Art Festival, Kaunas, LT.
• 2012 Therapy III: Red Ribbon in Ptarmigan, Tallinn, EE.
• 2012 collaborative performance with Vaida Tamoševičiūtė at Dimanche Rouge performance festival, Tallinn, EE.
• 2012 Therapy I in KKKC gallery in Klaipėda LT.
• 2012 performance Sėjomaina in collaboration with Vaida Tamoševičiūtė during a Land Art : Identity exhibition in the Botanical garden of Vilnius University, Kairenai, LT.

Exhibitions (selection)

• 2025 participant of Flux Sensibles (LT/FR) exhibition, also presented in St. Julien en St. Alban (FR) (2024).
• 2024 curator and participant of the exhibition Žemės kūnas / Earth as a Body, Meno Parkas gallery, Kaunas. With video performances Wounded Landscapes, documentation here.
• 2024 participant of an exhibition of selected Lithuanian performance art video exhibition Nūdiena (curated by Vaida Tamoševičiūtė, Katri Kainulainen and Maximillian Latva), Finland.
• 2023 personal exhibition migluotie / opalescent in Meno Parkas gallery, Kaunas (Lithuania). Video, sound & objects.
• 2022 participant in 3 decades of Lithuanian performance art. 1990-2022 video performance program (curated by Vaida Tamoševičiūtė; part of “Volume UP! Baltic Art in Big Apple” events), New York (USA).
• 2020 personal exhibition betylės erdvės in Meno Parkas art gallery + online, Kaunas (Lithuania). Video and sound.

Film and videowork (selection)

• 2012 Shelter Town: Home; short (8′) poetic documentary. Developed and produced while on residency in Ptarmigan, Tallinn, Estonia.
• 2011 Three Days; feature length documentary, commissioned by Ledo Takas record label. International premiere at the Heavy Metal Film Fest 2011, USA.
• 2010 video installation Invaded Earth, presented in the theater and contemporary dance festival Effetti di Movimento, Forte Prenestino, Roma, IT.
• 2009 video Lopšinė / Lullaby presented at Electric Shadows Film Festival in Beijing, PRC.

Curatorial and art production practice

• 2024 Curator and participant of the exhibition “Žemės kūnas / Earth as a Body”, Meno Parkas gallery, Kaunas, LT.
• 2018 – 2022 initiator, curator and producer of Matters.Platform for Industrial Culture (fudned by Kaunas EcoC 2022 program) (art residencies, education projects, transdisciplinary symposium on post-humanism, cyborgs, techno-bodies and accessibility, open(source) education for music programming, skill-sharing spring camp)
• 2017 curator of visual arts programme for industrial sound festival AREA, Kaunas, LT
• 2014 – 2015 producer of the Lithuanian Pavillion ar the Venice Biennial
• 2011 – 2018 co-initiator, co-curator and co-producer (with Vaida Tamoševičiūtė) or the International Performance Art Festival CREATurE Live Art, Kaunas, Lithuania

Publications (selection)

• Attunement, or to Recognise the Unspectacular. Published in State of the Art – Elements for Critical Thinking and Doing, editors Erich Berger, Mari Keski-Korsu, Marietta Radomska and Line Thastum. Bioart Society / SOLU Finland.
• A Cloud Has a Shadow. Published in Soundscapes as a Journal, editor Damian Lentini. Issue no.3, 2022.
• CREATurE Live Art 2012 – 2017: six years in performance. Catalogue. 2017. Editor. Performanso meno organizacija, Vilnius, Lithuania.
• On the Non-Existent Opposition Between Politics and Art (original: Apie nesamą politikos ir meno opoziciją). Published in Nemunas, editor Erika Drungytė. Issue 2017-11.

Facilitator practice

• 2025 facilitating a 2 day performance practice workshop for theater practitioners, priARTėk Theater Festival, Kaišiadorys, LT.
• 2025 facilitating an artistic research / practice workshop Working with the Landscape, through and with the Body. Berlin, DE.
• 2025 facilitating a listening workshop Practices of attunement: senses and/as data. Berlin, DE.
• 2024 facilitating a listening workshop, in the context of flux sensibles residency, Saint-Julien-en-Saint-Alban, Ardeche, FR. Co-organised by Meno Parkas Gallery and CIE Cadavres Exquis.
• 2024 facilitating a listening / bodywork workshop and connectivities, National Gallery of Art, Vilnius.
• 2024 facilitating a listening workshop on listening and hearing as environmental practices, Kaunas Artists’ House. Part of Belly-up Dream (Dog or Fish?).
• 2024 facilitating a workshop on composing practices, on invite by Dima Levytsky and Miskyi Theater, online.
• 2024 facilitating performance and streaming workshop for international art students (MA), Vilnius Academy of Arts, initiated and run by Vygintas Orlovas.
• 2023 conducting sensory ethnography workshops in Vilnius Krasnūcha district, as part of Anthropos, in collaboration with Vilnius Museum.
• 2023 conducting a listening workshop for the participants of audiowalk course Left Bank of Kyiv, initiated and run by Dima Levytskyi and Міський театр, w. support from America House Kyiv; Kyiv, UA.
• 2023 facilitating a performance /art/ workshop Dialogical Body for art practitioners. On invite by ENTITY space, Vilnius.
• 2020 conducting a listening workshop for music and dance teachers: Listening deeply as a way of creating an empathetic connection with the world, at Contemporary Art Festival START|as, Rokiškis, LT.
• 2020 facilitator of performance art workshop Togetherness (in Times of Planetary Crisis), Latvijas Performances Makslas Centrs, Riga, LV.
• 2019 lecturer / facilitator of performance workshop series/practices for Vilnius Academy of Arts students. Method: translating poetry into bodywork through affect.
• 2018 performance art workshop Autobiography in Performance for young artists, in residency at AirWro, Wroclaw, Poland
• 2017 performance art workshop Body:Shame, on working with autobiographical material and the body, on invite by Kaunas Artists House, Kaunas, LT
• 2016 developing and facilitating a performance workshop for/with participants in a daycare centre for people with disability Lakštutė, on invite by KKKC Klaipėda, LT.
• 2015 facilitating a 3-day performance art workshop with Vaida Tamoševičiūtė, commissioned by Kosmine Odiseja festival, Vilnius Academy of Arts, LT.

Lectures, /public/ talks, interviews

• 2025 lecture Practices of Attention: Attending to Wounded Landscapes and Listening to Nonhuman Others at inherit lecture series, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, in the frame of fellowship at Inherit. Heritage in Transformation, BMBF-funded Käte Hamburger Kolleg based at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.
• 2024 interview for NARA podcast series about my sound practice related to climate collapse, grief and care in more-than-human worlds. (Lithuanian only)
• 2024 guest lecture on performance art and video for design students, Vilnius Academy of Arts.
• 2023 interview for an anthropology podcast Homo Cultus. Ten ir Atgal, about my research practice in environmental anthropology, related to climate crisis in more-than-human worlds, Lithuanian Radio and Television. (Lithuanian only)
• 2023 guest lecture on artistic research for international art students, Vilnius Academy of Arts.
• 2023 guest lecture on artistic research, Academy of Media Arts Cologne.
• 2023 presenting my artistic and anthropological practice at the Landscape seminar organized by the Center for Landscape and Culture, Tallinn University.
• 2023 guest lecture about interrelated human and more-than-human worlds, for anthropology students in the University of Latvia.
• 2022 interview for Anxious Magazine about my sound practices in the silencing worlds. (English and Polish)
• 2022 lecture Anthropology and Climate Change: Reflections on and insights from ongoing ethnographic fieldwork in France. On invite by Vytautas Magnus University Social Anthropology Graduate seminar.
• 2022 talk/participation in roundtable discussion New Municipalisms and the Politics of the City, at Kombinatas festival, Lithuania.
• 2019 performance in public space as resistance, a lecture for the inaugural week on invite by Vilnius Academy of Arts