++++ NU was born in Kaunas. GU was born in Vilnius. Since 1993 NU & GU run JUTEMPUS interdisciplinary art programs, designing organisational structures that facilitates the articulation of artistic practice.

++++ Oral history as told by ballet dancing bodies coming from a myth about a woman turning her children and herself to trees to give new life by killing and moving victim to perpetrator and innovator giving birth to plants, fir tree, aspen, oak. On a trunk of an oak tree live fighting beetles, ‘lucanus cervus’, which are observed by a female beetle, and taken to the artists’ studio, where stoned to death and animated frame by frame by moving wires supporting their bodies as filmed with Soviet Disney camera to reanimate the format used in Utopian time designed by the packaging bureau in Vilnius, Belarus. (NU & GU)

Transmute,2002.Project documentation. Courtesy: Nomeda & Gediminas Urbonas