WIRE DOCTUS 2026 - Session 3

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.