Karolina Rybačiauskaitė is a researcher and writer. Since 2021, she has taught aesthetics and contemporary art theories at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. In 2024, she defended her PhD dissertation, “The Problem of the Reinvention of Practices in I. Stengers Thought”, at Vilnius University. In 2023 and 2022, she was a visiting fellow at Leiden University and KU Leuven (with the ERC project Homo Mimeticus), where she considered the meaning of affective mimesis in the reinvention of therapeutic practices. Her research focuses on the ecological projects in post-Marxist and posthumanist thought, as well as their relevance to contemporary art theory. As a researcher and writer, Karolina regularly collaborates with various contemporary art institutions and residencies (e.g. Mustarinda (2023), Petrohradska kolektiv and Rupert (2020).

During the residency in Kintai, Karolina has been working on the structure of her book project that attempts to respond to the shared concern of how some contemporary art practices survive and transform under threat—be it ecological, political, institutional, or emotional—and what kind of tools they may offer for navigating complexity, not only within artistic creation but also as models for broader ecological engagement.

▶ Kintai Arts residency programme for individual projects