Coffee & Scooters

The rental electric scooter – an urban appendicitis that promotes rushing and discourages walking. Often perceived negatively due to improper parking and unsafe riding. A green monster that drives many people mad, invoking nausea and disgust (this is the author’s personal and subjective opinion, formed from a comprehensive survey reflecting the real situation).

The street/object theatre performance “Coffee & Scooters” invites you to look at the daily life of a secret community of rental electric scooters as objects fighting for their right to exist in the city, battling with humans and other rental vehicles for an equal existence in urban spaces.

The scooters, looking for their voice, choose a promising young man who may understand their problems, but before he can act, he needs to sober up first. And so it goes, each and every evening. During the day the young man forgets who he is, what needs to be said, and how and why it should be done at all.

When creating performances with objects, Tautvydas Galkauskas looks for ways of using our everyday objects in contemporary contexts, reflecting on what connects him to the selected items while searching for similarities and differences. As the artist explains, objects sometimes tell us more about people and their behaviour than people themselves do. By applying his own and other people’s problems to objects and vice versa, he discovers interesting parallels between, and viewpoints on, his own life as well as the lives of objects and other people. The artist’s creative approach is closely related to his personal life, humour, pop culture references, and internet aesthetics—all intertwined with a style evoking a dramaturgy of nonsense. 

I don’t want to be confined to a single artistic definition or limited by labels such as ‘theatre artist,’ ‘actor,’ or ‘director.’ I want to do what excites me – whether it’s performance, cinema, artificial intelligence, photography, painting, or something completely unexpected.

The Young Creators Program is supported by ‘Baltisches Haus’.