Gailė Griciūtė

Gailė Griciūtė (Lithuania) in her practice explores sound art as a practice of otherness. She is examining the hearing process (physically, philosophically, psychologically and culturally) and zooming into the problematics of perception. Gaile is exploring the fluidity of sound, its ability to always transform, adapt, change, to be in relation with the environment. She is interested in the way of being that connects and is in constant change, adapting and reflecting as an alternative to clear definition and separation. The fluid way of being as otherness, a different way of relation.
Gailė Griciūtė is a composer and sound artist. Since year 2022 she is PhD student at Vilnius Academy of Arts. Her research topic is “Sound Art As A Practice of Otherness”, supervisor Peter Ablinger. She graduated from the Sibelius Academy of Music in Helsinki, Finland and Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, also studied as a guest student at the Städelschule in Frankfurt am Main. Gailė is a member of performance collective Eye Gymnastics (Viktorija Damerell and Gaile Griciute). Their works have been shown at various festivals in Lithuania and Germany. Some of the festivals and concert series where Gailė Griciūtė’s sound and art projects were presented: Ahead, Jauna muzika, Soundscape, NOA, Estonia, Gaida, Vilnius Performance Biennial (Lithuania), Couterflows (UK), Sound Art Festival (Kaliningrad), Unsound (Krakow), Labor Sonor (Berlin), Atmospherics (Haus Der Kunst, Munich), O! contemporary opera festival (Rotterdam). She has been an artist in residence at Delfina Foundation (London) and Canal180 at VIC Aveiro Arts House (Aveiro).

Picture by Philippe Gerlach