Duo “Eye Gymnastics” consists of Gailė Griciūtė and Viktorija Damerell who experiment in the fields of music, voice, text and visual language. Their joint explorations combine hypnotic ero-irony lyrics with elements of baroque opera, pop beat, sensual speech and circuit bent toys’ infused music.

Golden Hour, 2022

Performance, 36′

“Life and death are separated by a golden hour. If you are critically injured, you have less than 60 minutes to survive. You may not die immediately; it may happen in three days or two weeks — but something irreversible has happened to your body.” — R. Adams Cowley.

Ride with us it might be late
But at least we’re together.
The way from pain is though the pain
We glow in now or never.

The “golden hour” is a means of transport for personal, intimate, and urgent journeys. It gently rolls away the dull, fragile, and unreal matter of our days, inviting us inside, flowing with whispers and rhythms, echoing with songs, instructions, and incantations.

Eye Gymnastics, Golden Hour, Rupert 2022, Vilnius. Photo by Bon Alog.

What are the dreams of concrete?, 2023

Performance, 40′

In times of polarisation reaching higher and higher points, some say that a new awareness is emerging. The extreme separation might give birth to an urge for re-unity, for stretching one’s boundaries to involve the other. How far can we extend from our limited selves? Can I let your you-ness in? Can I feel what my cat feels? Can I have a glimpse into the universe of a blood cell?

Some say that everything in this world has agency. That water, mountains and winds are also alive and have their will. And that we can’t see it until we accept it on their own terms. What does the river, the rock, the cloud want? And what does letting the world in really mean? Could it involve the world we created ourselves? 

If we knew that we multiply what we judge, could we fall in love with it instead? 

What is the will of an engine, of a road, of a city? What are the dreams of concrete? What if we all are creatures with agency moving through us?

In this new work the artistic duo Eye Gymnastics invites us to submerge ourselves in a vault of voices, becoming part of a bigger sonic entity that we create together.

 

Eye Gymnastics, What Are the Dreams of Concrete? Vilnius Biennial of Performance Art, 2023. Video by Vytautas Tinteris