Drift Without a River – Gailė Griciūtė

Audio-visual installation , 30′

Artists:

Eye Gymnastics (Gailė Griciūtė and Viktorija Damerell)

Consulting artist: Paulius Jurjonas

Sound engineers: Gabrielė Griciūtė and Andrius Mackevičius

Consulting on furniture textile design and production: Ani Gandžumian

Sound is constantly moving, changing, transforming. In a sense, it can be called humble. In order to become, sound must give itself up completely. Drift without a river is the movement of becoming. The experience of togetherness, the attempt to come closer, to share and observe the conditionality of the separation between us.

When asked to create a sound piece about Kaunas, the artists chose to look at the city from the perspective of professionals, amateurs, and the deaf community who make music together. People come together to experience togetherness. I hear what you hear, and in this experience we are together. Voice meets voice, sound meets sound beyond the boundaries of the body. Sound waves vibrate the air, reflect off surfaces, refract, resonate, and cancel each other out. They enter the human body and are transformed into thoughts, feelings, and experiences. And yet, what exactly connects us? How far can we expand our boundaries to get to know another? Perhaps what is more important for togetherness is not physical reality itself, but the intention to open up to another?

Through sound, touch, smell, and sight, through memories and imagination, we come closer to each other, and through others, we come closer to ourselves.