Choreography for the Running Male (2015)

Choreography for the Running Male reveals how gender isn’t just bound to one’s body but is rather a collection of acquired responses. A group of men march through the city on a daily basis. They perform a choreographed sequence that refers to military operations. This is interchanged with emotional movements that are evocative of moments of shame or temptation. As such a sense of alienation comes about. The artist Eglė Budvytytė addresses macho culture by presenting men who display their vulnerability in public.

Eglė Budvytytė addresses our sensitivity and awareness of what surrounds us by creating part constructed, part improvised situations that are a cross between fiction and reality, and scenario and documentary. The border between reality and the imaginary becomes undefined, in order to analyse the social construction of our identities in relation to reality. Budvytytė studied photography at the Art Academy in Vilnius, audio-visual studies at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie in Amsterdam, and received her Masters at the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam. Her work has been exhibited, among others, in Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paulo; CAC, Vilnius; Swiss Institute, New York, and TENT, Rotterdam.