Lina Lapelytė

TATE ETC. What role does play have in your work?

LINA LAPELYTE Play, improvisation, something new. I may have inherited this approach from learning about the the 196os and 1970s in my teenage years I come from a musical background, where

ETC. Has your training as a classical violinist and composer also shaped the way you think about movement and space?

LL My musical training has given me an understanding of the relationship between sounds, their timing and architecture. In fact, I see most of the things I do as a form of music. For me, this term means something much wider than sound.

ETC. How would you describe your new work - titled Line After Line After Line After Turn -to someone encountering it for the first time?

LL The installation consists of a grid of wooden dividers that organise audiences in a very particular way. Everyone is invited to move through these barriers, using a provided score to perform certain sounds and actions. The work relies on collective resonance; it encourages action and togetherness. From a distance, it could be perceived as a living organism.

ETC. How important is the audience and this sense of collectivity?

LL The work only happens when the audience is present. From collaborating with people in my previous projects, I have learned that any of us can produce a simple sound or action when prompted but that this takes on an extra significance when it is done with other people.

ETC. What do you hope visitors will experience when they take part in the new piece?

LL They will experience chance encounters, the joy of the unknown, and the shifting of small individual actions into a larger, collective resonance.

ETC. What surprises you most about how audiences interact with your work?

LL Mostly their generosity- their sense of willingness to dive into the unknown.

^{UNIQLO Tate Play: Lina Lapelyté: Line After Line After Line After Turn, Turbine Hall, 25 July - 31 August}

^{Lina Lapelytė is an artist and composer working in Vilnius.}

^{UNIQLO Tate Play is in partnership with UNIOLO.}