Session 3 | Vilnius
The Decadent Gaze as Method in Artistic Research
LMTA, Vilnius | 26–27 May 2026
The Vilnius session combines a theoretical lecture by Dr. Kristupas Sabolius (a philosopher of cinema and imagination) and an intensive practice-based workshop to deepen participants’ artistic research. Focusing on decadent gaze as method, it brings philosophical reflection, hands-on experimentation with individual research material, and informal evening discussions that support critical exchange, reflection, and methodological development. The intensive workshop will be led by cinema artist and artistic researcher Miklos Tamas Ambrozy.
Opening session & welcome remarks
- Greta Grinevičiūtė – DOCTUS organiser, LMTA
Key contributors include:
- Kristupas Sabolius (Vilnius University)
- Miklos Tamas Ambrozy (LMTA)
Programme*
May 26, 2026
9:30 – 10:00: Welcome coffee, registration, snacks, meet & greet
10:00 – 11:00: Keynote by Kristupas Sabolius
11:00 – 12:00: Discussion
12:00 – 12:30: Coffee break
12:30 – 14:00: Workshop by Miklos Tamas Ambrozy
“Decadence as a speculative lens”
14:00 – 15:00: Lunch
15:00 – 18:30: Workshops & coffee breaks
19:00 – 20:30: Dinner and informal evening gathering
May 27, 2026
9:00 – 9:30: Welcome coffee
9:30 – 17:30: Workshops by Miklos Tamas Ambrozy with breaks
18:00 – 20:00: Dinner, goodbye party & overall reflection
*The programme may be subject to minor changes.
** Decadence, for this workshop, takes the shape of an unstable environment, where certainties are shattered. There are no truths and conventions, only the here and now of the unfixed image, the destabilizing gaze, the faulty machinery (of artistic research), the wobbly criteria. I consider decadence as a speculative lens for viewing our research as something temporal, suffering from being constrained, bearing traces of its own decomposition too early, or becoming undone at the wrong moment. Which utopia will it end in - hope or anarchy? With this workshop, I hope to loosen some of the meta-level discourse, and stay with the day-to-day acts of art and research. To allow ourselves to witness how excess, ornament, ambiguity, slowness, and cadence can reorganize our actions into previously unseen pathways and events.