GRETA PUNDZAITE’s practice steps at the intersection of physical presence, motion, and disciplinary inquiry in artistic and academic contexts. Grounded in an early and sustained engagement with movement, her work unfolds from physicality as both source and site of creative and epistemic processes — where memory, sensation, and agency melt, regardless of the physical form in question, for flesh-like bodies and material environments alike. Her doctoral research in Arts bridged movement with neurological and phenomenological perspectives, reframing it as equivalent to physicality and synonymous with knowing, rather than transitional. Attentive to questions of hierarchy and representation, her work aims to clarify the notion of physical through exploration of its expansive, self-generating intelligence, rather than its discipline, therefore leading to an embracement and articulation of creation as a self-generating universal principle.

Graduate of arts-reinforcing high school and studies of Creative Communication with additional competencies acquired in the field of Theatre in birth country, Lithuania, she also studied in the Academy of Dramatic Art in Croatia and Lisbon Theatre and Film School in Portugal. Her doctoral research (2020-2026) was affiliated with Vittorio Gallese’s Lab of Social Cognitive Neuroscience (Italy) and selected as a grant recipient by the Foundation for Science and Technology (Portugal). Her artistic trajectory, unfolding through performance, installation, and audiovisual practice, takes shape as an emergent process.

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