Gailė Griciūtė
Creative part: "Sound Art as a Practice of Otherness". Supervisor Peter Ablinger
Theoretical part: "Sound Art as a Practice of Otherness". Supervisor dr. Lina Michelkevičė
Photo: A still from documentation of sound performance do not listen! 2023, Vilnius.
In the research work ‘Sound Art as a Practice of Otherness’ I pose questions and explore the problematics of the usual relationship between the components of a sound work (creator, performer (object), environment, audience, etc.). In addition, I examine the hearing process (physically and philosophically) and analyse the problematics of perception. Also within the frames of this research I am attempting to define an invisible line between music and sound art. In the thesis I discuss the methods through which an alternative relation towards the process of listening and understanding the sound arise. I am investigating how the changes in usual hierarchy within the sound work elements and changes in relation towards the sound itself alter the experience of the sound work. In the course of artistic investigation, the boundaries of the work begin to flicker, it interacts with the performer, the environment and the listener, transcending itself. During the research I am mapping the ongoing parallels between sound perception and the perception of perception. In search for methods I am examining works by various sound artists as well creating and investigating my personal practice.
Although our cultural context constantly teaches us to read sound signs, to understand their context and meaning, I am interested in the multiplicity of meanings and the nature of sound as a form - as an emptiness - where it is nothing in itself until it is given a name based on 'objective' conventions.