Productions

Director Andrius Pulkauninkas
Choreographer Goda Laurinavišiūtė
Composer Kotryna Jančauskaitė
Set Designer Eglė Jovaišaitė
Video Projections Author Šarūnas Kuckailis
Lighting Operator Santautas Kabelka
Sound Operator Juozas Sakalis
Video Projections Operator Andrius Kavaliauskas
Performers Gintarė Švedaitė, Inga Zybailaitė, Roberta Skirmantaitė, Gabija Matijaškaitė, Danielė Grigaliūnaitė, Aistrė Giedraitytė, Aistė Šukevičiūtė, Ugnė Budrytė, Austėja Rimkutė, Erika Voloncevič, Goda Savostinaitė, Kotryna Jančauskaitė and Laisvūnė Šimonytė

VU Kinetic Theatre dance performance "Hommo in Maxima" is an experiment that tries to cover the evolution of four values after Lithuania’s accession to the European Union. Love, affection, safety and understanding of the meaning of life.

Maybe we call love just a fun party experience? Maybe affection is just addiction to brands and safety is granted in- and out-group squabbles. Then we should not look for meaning, because it is buried under the gravestone of artificial intelligence, answers and feelings of personal redundancy.

Deus ex machina is dead. Now starts the formation of hommo ex machina situation, which seeks to become an emotionally complete instruction for use. Values are superseded by a written codex of “life” - administrational instructions. They are squeezed in an Excel spreadsheet in clamps of mandatory productivity. This fits our mandatory criteria. Alas, it does not care for honesty. Thus, it degenerates into Hommo in Maxima.