Isadora Petrauskas

Isadora Petrauskas is a Brazilian–Lithuanian multimedia artist, scenographer, and academic. She is a co-founder of the theatre collective Teatro Voador Não Identificado (TVNI), whose work has been featured in Brazilian media outlets such as O Globo, Folha de São Paulo, and O Estado de S. Paulo. Her projects have been developed in Brazil, the United Kingdom, Portugal, and China, combining elements of performance, scenography, and digital media.

Career

Petrauskas has collaborated on multiple productions with TVNI, a group that produces multimedia theatre with political and documentary elements. In 2015, the collective was nominated for the Prêmio Shell de Teatro for its production O Figurante. Other works, including As Mil e Uma Noites and Shuffle, received coverage in national press for their use of personal testimony and mixed-media formats.

In 2020, she presented the solo virtual reality work Tongue-Tied at the Ars Electronica In 2019, she contributed to the Brazilian Pavilion at the Prague Quadrennial.

Her first book, Estados para a Tensão, was published in 2025 by Annablume Editora. The publication collects poetic and theoretical reflections on themes such as embodiment, memory, and tension.

Academic work

Petrauskas holds an MA in Design from Edinburgh Napier University and a PhD in Fine Arts from University of Porto. She has taught at institutions in the United Kingdom and China. As of 2025, she is Associate Professor at Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University (XJTLU), where she teaches in the Academy of Film and Creative Technology.

Selected works O Figurante – TVNI, Shell Prize nominee (2015) As Mil e Uma Noites – TVNI (2018) Tongue-Tied – VR performance, Ars Electronica (2020) Estados para a Tensão – Book, Annablume Editora (2025)