Lithuania

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Residency period: July - August 2026

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Residency granted by Lithuanian Council for Culture & 

​Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theate

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Karolina Rybačiauskaitė is a researcher and writer working at the intersection of ecological theory and contemporary art. Since 2021, she has taught aesthetics and contemporary art theory at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. In 2024, she defended her PhD dissertation, The Problem of the Reinvention of Practices in Isabelle Stengers’ Thought, at Vilnius University. In 2022–2023, she was a visiting fellow at Leiden University and KU Leuven (ERC project Homo Mimeticus), where she explored affective mimesis and the reinvention of therapeutic practices. Her research engages ecological projects in post-Marxist and posthumanist thought, with a focus on their relevance to artistic practices. As a researcher, writer, and dramaturge, she regularly collaborates with various artists, contemporary art institutions and residencies, including Mustarinda (2023), Petrohradska Kolektiv, and Rupert (2020).