Ptarmigan operated in Tallinn from 2011-2014. We no longer maintain any presence in Tallinn, but this website will continue to serve as an archive of the activities produced at Ptarmigan during these years.
Daina (Dieva) Pupkevičiūtė is a Lithuanian videomaker & sound constructor, a bit out-spaced but tremendously disciplined - that would be the right way to define her character. Her sound works range from creating soundscapes for performances and installations to live concerts and albums, usually telling / disclosing / facing the shades of "the other side", the visions, the fears, the untold, and the missed.
Video and documentary works are equally important - as a language and as the only way she's found to perceive, according to her, the beauty, by bits and peaces scattered in the visible world.
The main issues she's dealing with in her works are the otherness, the ambivalence of human beings and all the things surrounding us, and the possibility to transcend the now and here during an intense musical / visual / any other artistic experience. Her latest interests embrace transmedial storytelling and socially engage(ed)/(ing) art.
Right now Daina's preparing an online-video project (as a meditation of alternative spaces) as well as planning the Ptarmigan project, which would be a documentary essay on the residents of Pebre street. in Tallinn and its neighborhood - the Pelgulinn area, as well as a sound-mapping workshop, exploring the subjects of home v/s stranger, and a wonderful trait the reality acquires in the documentary (video and sound as well) - the dissolvence of the real.
