MEETING–LECTURE WITH COMPOSER PIERRE JODLOWSKI “Body without Organs as a Perspective of Interdisciplinarity”

16 March 2026, Monday, 11 am.
LMTA Balcony Theatre (Gedimino Ave. 42, Vilnius)

MEETING–LECTURE WITH COMPOSER PIERRE JODLOWSKI
“Body without Organs as a Perspective of Interdisciplinarity”

The concept of the “body without organs” in the context of this lecture is borrowed from the work of Antonin Artaud. In his work “The Tarahumaras,” he writes that “consciousness knows what is good for it and what has no value for it; therefore it recognizes the thoughts and feelings it can accept without danger and with benefit, and those that harm the functioning of its freedom. First of all, it knows how far its being extends and how far it has not yet gone – or has no right to go – without risking entering an unprepared surreality, illusion…”

Based on this statement, interdisciplinarity will be examined during the meeting–lecture from a poetic perspective. Pierre Jodlowski will present the field of his creative work, in which the “body without organs” functions as a principle articulating different media. The lecture will discuss in more detail the conceptual and technical processes the composer applies in developing his projects.

ABOUT THE LECTURER:

Pierre Jodlowski is a French mixed music composer and multimedia artist whose work transcends the usual boundaries of music and encompasses the fields of contemporary music, dance, circus, theater, visual arts, electronic music, film, and interactive installations. Pierre Jodlowski describes his work as an “active process” both on a physical level (musical gestures, action not only with sounds in time but also with the body in space) and on a psychological level (analyzed relationships with memory, sound visualization, the body, and media). Since 1998, the artist has been one of the artistic directors of “éOle” (a research and production studio based in Toulouse), and since 2019 – the artistic director of the “Musica Electronica Nova” festival, organized by the National Forum of Music in Wrocław (Poland). He is currently an associated composer of the IRCAM composition course.

As French composer Nathanaël Bergèse states, “Jodlowski’s ideas are based on the creation of a performative vocabulary serving narration.” Pierre Jodlowski’s work includes the performer’s bodily action in space (“Mad Max”), musical performance (“Respire”), theatrical masks (“Diary Random and Pickles”), a unique system of physical gestures (“Time’n’Money”), and explores the relationship between physicality and media (“Ghostland, Territory of Shadows”). Constantly expanding both the spectator-listener’s experience and the limits of performers’ activity, he employs contemporary technologies, precise work with performers, and media art to create polyphonic and structurally multi-layered audiovisual compositions and intermedial works, performed live by professionals from different fields: actors, musicians, cinematographers, lighting designers, dancers, and others. In 2002, the artist won the Claude Arrieu SACEM Prize; in 2012 – the Hervé Dugardin SACEM Prize; in 2003 and 2004 he was in residence at the Berlin Academy of Arts. In 2013, he received the “Académie Charles Cros” award for one of his CDs. In 2015, he became a laureate of the Grand Lycéens Prize in France for the work “Time & Money.” From 2017 to 2019, he was a resident artist at the National Theatre “Lux” in Valence (France).

The event is free of charge, you are kindly invited!