Edvardas Šumila

Lecturer at the LMTA Department of Education.

Edvardas Šumila is a philosopher, musicologist, writer, and curator, currently a PhD candidate in philosophy at The New School for Social Research and a curator at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius. He started off as a pianist and entered the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, where he became interested in scholarship, and his activities turned to musicology. Gradually, he established his interests mainly in critical theory, aesthetics, and politics, artistic intersectionality, and political commitment with a particular focus on the thought of Theodor W. Adorno. He is currently investigating artistic commitment under conditions of permanent crisis. He is one of the founders and curators of AHEAD, a festival for electronic sound practices, and has curated and directed a number of other festivals, events, and exhibitions.