Daumantas Plechavičius (born 1981) and Aistė Valiūtė (born 1981) have been collaborating as individual artists and as a creative duo Dualhead since 2000.
Having graduated from the Vilnius Academy of Arts in photography and media arts, the duo and colleagues from other fields carry out various interdisciplinary projects, creating interactive expositions, projections, installations for museums and art centers, and documenting exhibitions. “DUO” is organized as a performance combining music, dance, and new media, the starting point of which was the American composer Lera Auerbach’s 24 Preludes for Violin and Piano. It also aimed to reflect on the concept of the duet as a performance format and to highlight the more complex issues of duality and co-creation. Live music by Aidas Strimaitis and Eglė Kasteckaitė was complemented by dance by choreographer Andrius Katinas and Saara Töyrylä, and interactive installations by Aistė Valiūtė and Daumantas Plechavičius. In the performance “DUO”, the artists used electronic motion and sound sensors, which helped to deconstruct the stage event — the speed of the dance, the intensity of the sound — in real time down to the smallest detail, and transformed the collected information into a graphic representation of physics data. With this rigorous visualization of the performance, the duo of creators raises the question of the manifestation of the “God particle”. It is believed that it is because of it that bodies have mass, so perhaps these particles of the deconstructed performance can answer questions of mutual connection, for example, becoming “love”, responsible for the strong feelings that accompany us for a certain time.
