Fluid bodies 2/5. Streaming states

The exhibition open from 30 June 19:00
Open: 30 June - 31 July
Tuesday - Friday 16:00-20:00
Saturday - Sunday 12:00-20:00

The exhibition presents artists from two different generations. The common quality of their works - the ability to immerse viewers into exceptional and therapeutic audio, virtual and video environments.

Henrikas Gulbinas (b. 1960, Kaunas) is a video artist, documentary filmmaker, melomaniac, and one of the pioneers of Lithuanian video art. Gulbinas bought his first camera back in 1985. He created his first series of video art works "Unimaginable things", while experimenting with home video recorders, diving into the new possibilities of analogue video signal, editing and exploring the relationship between sound and image. In 1988, the series was exhibited in the "Encounters" exhibition at the Klaipėda Exhibition Hall, alongside sculptures by Klaudijus Stepanovas and graphic works by Romas Klimavičius. It was one of the first exhibitions of early Lithuanian video art.

After this exhibition Gulbinas was frequently invited to present his "videogeneration" creative method and his video pieces at international experimental film festivals in St Petersburg, Paris, Hamburg and other cities.

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Gailė Cijūnaitytė virtual reality installation is based on the phenomenon of binaural ASMR (Autonomous Sensory Meridian Response) on YouTube. This pleasant but difficult-to-explain feeling is related to a tingling sensation that runs through one’s head, neck and back, which is caused by a qualitative combination of auditory, visual and cognitive stimuli.

The artist speaks to anxious millennials who are distracted, lost and unsure of how to find peace in the informational noise of the modern world. Switch off the phones, destroy internet antennas? Who to pray to? How to live? Be my friend, please, I will pay you for that!

Sit down, how are you? You can relax, you know. Just relax, it's okay. If no one has said that to you today, I'm proud of you, - this artwork invites.

Artists: Gailė Cijūnaitytė, Henrikas Gulbinas

Curator: Valentinas Klimašauskas

Producer: „Ars futuri“

More about the exhibition series "Fluid bodies" at culture ship "Nemuno7": https://www.nemuno7.lt/en/flowing-bodies/

The event is part of the "Kaunas and Kaunas District - European Capital of Culture 2022" programme.

Accessibility: The space is inaccessible to people with reduced mobility.