Call Me by My Name

In the series of artworks Call me by My Name - Dalia Kiaupaitė analyzes and presents Lithuanian names, which also have meanings in everyday language. Like her own name, which in Lithuanian, the author's native language, means happiness, success, destiny, or something in between. The idea for these works stems from misunderstandings in an international context. It was surprising that colleagues with whom it was possible to discuss engagement, ecological topics, and even post and transhumanism boldly and interestingly needed a consistent interpretation of what a joke means - that she gave her computer a civil right to update. Then she looked back at both her roots and personal experience again and realized that first, she had learned that oak is her uncle, her father’s brother, and only later after attending kindergarten that it is also a tree. Later, she was not at all surprised that her youngest cousin was named Ruth, that one of her best friends is bird cherry, and she cuts her hair by spruce. It all boiled down to the video installation and performance Call me by My Name, which was first presented in Bochum, Germany and online by Satellites, Laboratory for Sounds and Soul.