Articulations 9: Nazanin Noori, Gediminas Žygus & Yen Chun Lin
Location: Draugų vardai (Konstitucijos pr. 12, Vilnius).
Date & time: 21 August 2025, 19:00.
Participants: Nazanin Noori, Gediminas Žygus & Yen Chun Lin.
This summer’s edition of Articulations marks a transitional point for Rupert, in anticipation of our new location opening this autumn. The event also presents a renewed focus for the series, featuring interdisciplinary artists with an innovative relationship to sound and music. As the first part of a multi-year project participating in the Ulysses Platform, Rupert invited three artists for research residencies with an explicit emphasis on long-term collaboration.
Multidisciplinary artist and director Nazanin Noori, in Vilnius for the first time, works across composition, installation, lecture performance, and text, manipulating sound as a means of thinking and feeling. With a background in science, she primarily operates within doom electronics. These hypnoacoustic compositions extend into simultaneously layered structures, taking a form that Noori calls Ambient Hardcore, exploring the intersection of space and post-dramatic poetry. For this occasion, Noori will perform an improvised set using a modular synthesizer and live vocals.
Gediminas Žygus and Yen Chun Lin, both Rupert programme alumni, invite the audience into an atmospheric, aural experience. Now working as a duo, they will preview a new body of work, which they are beginning to research during this residency. In their words, they propose ‘[…to synchronise] heartbeats with a moth. Pulse halted, breath frozen, pauses looping, waves suspended. Breathing in and out of a perpetual pause machine. Through tunnels, memories come and go, like waves—come and go.’
Following each presentation, the artists will briefly discuss their research topics and collaboration plans with Rupert’s curator of residencies and public programmes, JL Murtaugh.
Participants:
Nazanin Noori (based in Berlin) is an interdisciplinary artist working in sound art, composition, live and lecture performances, installations, directing, and writing. Since 2016, she began working with composition for theatre and art film. Her sound pieces premiered in 2021 at the Berliner Festpiele and her performances have been staged at Villa Massimo, CTM Festival and ICA London. Her theatre works were staged at Maxim Gorki Theatre, Deutsches Theater, and the Berliner Ensemble. Recently, Nazanin was awarded the Ars Viva Prize for Visual Arts (2026).
Gediminas Žygus (based in Berlin) is working within the fields of sound, film and performance. Their practice explores narrative design and the visceral. Revolving around performances, albums and short films, Gediminas’s work has been performed and featured globally, including recently at the Barbican Centre, Berghain, La Biennale di Venezia, Centre Pompidou, ICA London, Haus der Kunst in Munich, Palais De Tokyo, The Kitchen, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, and Unsound, amongst others.
Yen Chun Lin (based in Berlin) dwells in the state of falling—falling into sleep, into wakefulness, into the unknown. Attuning to the subtle vibrations of existence and the shifting edges of perception, she focuses on the tenuous and sensuous space of sound and consciousness, and the misty zone between the ‘here’ and ‘elsewhere’—a realm that emerges beyond the physical and material frame of the work. Lin received a Master of Fine Arts from Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2019. Yen has exhibited in ICA London, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, SAVVY Contemporary, Creamcake Berlin, and Skanes Konstforening, amongst others.
Articulations, now in its ninth edition, is a cycle of seasonal public events highlighting the practices of Rupert’s international residents.
The event will be held in English.
Articulations 9 is part of the Ulysses Platform, co-funded by the European Union.
This project brings together 13 European partner institutions involved in the support and promotion of young artists. Each institution plays a fundamental role in recognizing, accompanying, professionalizing, and developing the careers of young performers, some for over 20 years.
The views and opinions expressed are those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Education and Culture Executive Agency (ECEA). Neither the European Union nor ECEA can be held responsible for them.