October 20, 16:00–20:00
Rupert, Mindaugas St. 15, Vilnius

On October 20, Rupert presents Something Happened to Me Yesterday, an ongoing performance by theatre director Naubertas Jasinskas, taking place in Rupert’s street-facing window and open to view from outside. 

Something Happened to Me Yesterday explores the feeling of longing and how it shapes our personal narratives. What is it that we truly long for when we long for something? Although memory is continually reshaped throughout our lives, the memories that both empower and constrain us often reach back to childhood. 

Jasinskas’s practice is strongly influenced by the ideas of Carl Gustav Jung and the work of theatre director Susanne Kennedy. The performance’s title is a line from one of Kennedy’s productions. Like Jasinskas, both thinkers and practitioners are drawn to journeys into alternative, dreamlike spaces.

The work is part of Lineage, Rupert’s programme of window installations and events that explores how different ways of thinking are passed from one person to another.

About the work

Something Happened to Me Yesterday is an ongoing performance that emerges from a reconsideration of theatre, performativity and non-textual forms of narrative. It also stems from a desire to create conditions for connection through shared states of being, a shared sense of intuition and the possibility of becoming lost in a collective memory. 

“The performance centres on the feeling of longing, which, as Carl Gustav Jung suggests, is essential to exploring our own existence and relationship with the self. Dreams often bring back particular states of being or memories that draw us into this mire of longing,” says Naubertas Jasinskas.

The work asks what we long for when we long for something. Is this longing tied to the everyday circumstances that hold us in place, or can we travel further into memories, often rooted in childhood, before the reality we inhabit today had taken shape? A time when we could freely inhabit our own worlds, creating our own spaces and sense of time.

Although we continually reconstruct our memories throughout our lives, those that empower or constrain us often originate in childhood. Something Happened to Me Yesterday serves as a reminder and an invitation to dwell consciously in longing, attempting to construct a narrative of our own.

Light and music play a central role in the performance. Light establishes distinct planes for both performers and observers, shaping a liminal, almost mystical space. Music, Jasinskas explains, operates beyond the limits of intellectual understanding: regardless of our age or who we are, it draws us into the depths in much the same way. It creates a dimension that can connect those performing with those watching. The relationship between these two media is crucial to the artist’s attempt to bring us together in a shared dream.

Jasinskas’s practice is shaped by the thought of Carl Gustav Jung and the work of theatre director Susanne Kennedy, whose production provides the line from which the performance takes its title. The mask, both as an object and as a threshold into a performative state, has a direct connection to Kennedy’s theatre. Jasinskas had the opportunity to undertake an internship at Berlin’s Volksbühne theatre while Kennedy was developing her production Coming Society. Her exploration of non-human perspectives and journeys into alternative, dreamlike spaces became an important point of reference for his work.

Jasinskas first encountered Jung’s ideas through Polish artist and theatre director Krystian Lupa, who has grounded much of his work in the psychoanalyst’s worldview. For Jasinskas, this engagement marks a relatively new direction in his artistic practice.

About Naubertas Jasinskas

Naubertas Jasinskas (b. 1995) is a theatre director and playwright who studied at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre under director Yana Ross. His work engages with questions of empathy, patriarchy, gender, sexuality, family, class and the power structures that connect them. He approaches these subjects critically through queer and feminist perspectives.

In 2022, Jasinskas received the Golden Stage Cross in the Young Artist category for his production bowel. In 2023, he was nominated for a Golden Stage Cross for Best Direction for The End of Eddy and The Pelican.

About Lineage

Running from September 2026 to March 2027, Rupert’s Lineage programme brings together works in different formats, including window installations, conversations, performances and video screenings. Curated by Monika Lipšic, the programme invites audiences to reflect on how different ways of thinking are transmitted between people.

The programme features Tris Vonna-Michell, Barbora Šulniūtė, Naubertas Jasinskas, Raimundas Malašauskas, Marge Monko and Mila Panić.

Upcoming events

November 6: Raimundas Malašauskas, Solo.

December 15: A photographic installation by Marge Monko in Rupert’s window and a stand-up performance by Mila Panić.

More information about the programme: rupert.lt/en/g-i-m-i-n-y-s-t-e-l-i-n-e-a-g-e

Performance credits

Concept: Naubertas Jasinskas
Lighting designer: Dainius Urbonis
Composer: Marco Righetto
Performers: Justina Mykolaitytė, Martynas Mockevičius, Gabrielle Emily Aidulis, Rokas Bugys, Žygimantas Vainauskas
Special thanks: Elena Veleckaitė

Rupert team

Curator: Monika Lipšic
Programme coordinator: Gabrielė Golubovičiūtė
Communications: Kornelija Žvinklytė
Programme Intern: Rūta Lukauskaitė
Designers: Augustinas Milkus and Jana Sofie Liebe
Special thanks: Viktorija Šiaulytė and JL Murtaugh

The project is supported by Vilnius City Municipality, Nordic Culture Point and the Lithuanian Council for Culture.