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2020-03-09
New artworks in the collection – Dr. GoraParasit's performance documentation
Gintarė Minelgaitė, also known as Dr. GoraParasit, was born in 1984 in Kaunas, Lithuania. In 2005, she studied acting at Lithuanian Theatre and Drama School, where she was a part of two theatre collectives. Since moving to London in 2006, she graduated with BA in Fine Arts, and in 2013 completed a master’s degree in theatre directing at Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Whilst studying her masters at Royal School of Speech and Drama, she began collaborating with the avant-garde theatre director Robert Wilson. Dr. GoraParasit directed & produced a number of successful stagings - ‘1001 nights in America’ (Watermill Center, NYC; Berliner Festspiele) , ‘Bein Particular’ ( Nettle house, London); collaborations with Norwegian composer Steinar Yggeseth - ‘ TUK TUK ANAMNESIS’ (Kaunas Biennial), ‘LOVE’ (CAC, Vilnius; Šiauliai Art Gallery, Šiauliai; POST Gallery, Kaunas), ‘SELF-FLES’ (Šiauliai Art Gallery, Šiauliai; POST Gallery, Kaunas) and very recent Just Like In The Movies project part 1 ‘PSYCHO’ (POST Gallery, Kaunas), comic strip opera psycho a series of live performances and photographic artworks 'Pipe Dreaming’. She has won a Golden Stage Cross for her work 'Alpha' in 2018.
