Projects
Techno-voyeurism into a body of Spectator
Have you ever thought about what an artist feels when talking to colleagues or looking at their artworks? For example, when an artist observes small details in another artist's work, reads the text describing the concept or idea displayed alongside the artwork, or engages in conversations with colleagues in various languages, such as English and Lithuanian. Even translating from one language to another during a conversation – what happens in the artist's body? Art fairs, like during ArtVilnius2023, involve unexpected interactions. Over the three days of the event, hundreds of viewers, including colleagues and art fair visitors, are encountered. By combining art and science, it is possible to provide viewers with a live opportunity to observe changes in internal states during such interactions. Therefore, with an artist, you can not only talk but also see what they feel at every moment of the conversation.
The Borders of the Body
"The Borders of the Body" is a performance that involves the live reading of the performer's brain activity, translated into the colors of the Aurora Borealis. These colors correspond to the performer's cognitive states, with darkness representing relaxation. The performer reflects on their Lithuanian heritage while currently residing in Sapmi in the Arctic North. For a Lithuanian, the Arctic North carries the weight of history related to deportations from their homeland during the Soviet regime. Throughout the performance, the artist will commemorate those who were displaced during that time by outlining the borders of her body. Photos by Antti Ahonen.
Reflexive dive into memory and land
Marija Griniuk, Installation. Reflexive dive into memory and land, 2022-2023.
"Reflexive Dive into Memory and Land" is an art installation that combines technology and traditional art forms to explore the theme of memory and its relationship to land. The installation features changing lights that are remediated from EEG data recorded from the artist's brain, as well as paintings on silk. The use of EEG data adds a unique and technologically advanced element to the installation, while the silk paintings provide a more traditional artistic touch. Through the combination of these two elements, the installation creates a reflexive experience for the viewer, inviting them to consider the role of memory and land in their own lives.
The Unbody
Marija Griniuk, The Unbody, 2016-2017
a) Sculpture. Textile, electronic parts
b) Robots. Various materials, electronic parts*
c) Tables and their surfaces. Paper/cardboard
d) Book. Lithographic print, various materials
e) Workshop. Event for children, duration two hours
*Produced in collaboration with HumTek, Roskilde University (RUC)
Photo 1, 2 and 4 by Kunsthal Aarhus
The Nomadic Radical Academy
Marija Griniuk,The Nomadic Radical Academy. 2019, 2020
The Nomadic Radical Academy is an art project which takes form of live performance as an immersive artistic discussion about climate change and ecoviolence.
The upcomming presentation of the project at International Congress of Arctic Social Sciences (ICASS X) June 15-19, 2021 Arkhangelsk, Russia.
Construction
Construction goes through developmental stages from an object that the city needs to the object that a new society does not want anymore. It can symbolize evil, can be constructed and deconstructed. Sometimes it can become a mass production or a collectable object. Construction can be hardly linked to every person's individual memory about its primordial form and therefore unacceptable. This is how it’s treated as a fake - a layer that disappears with a change of generations, which then become an organic part of new memory. Read more at menopropaganda.lt here
The Edge
Videoinstallation consists of videoprojection, 5 sculptures, 5 soundtracks and publication. The videos pivotal point is an animated puppet film that borrows from the science fiction genre. The story takes place far into the future and describes our human struggle with consciousness and the body. The parties involved are lost existences that no longer know if they are machines or humans. They have forgotten who they are, where they come from, what the purpose of their life is or how it ends. It would be a mistake though, to see the video only as a reference or commentary on an unpredictable future; rather, it should be seen as an attempt towards understanding some of today’s societal tendencies and provoking a discussion of these. Read more at ciurlionis.lt here
Christianshavn. Artistic-social project Meeting Point.
The definition of a meeting point is the following: a meeting point or a meeting place is a geographically defined place where people meet. Such a meeting point is often a landmark which has become popular and is a convenient place for both tourists and citizens to meet. Examples of meeting points include public areas and facilities such as squares, statues, parks, amusement parks, railway stations, airports, etc. or officially designated and signed points in such public facilities. Meeting point is the meeting of different private areas, meeting of interiors of people belonging to different social groups, meeting of reality and fiction, meeting of material and immaterial. The video projections are made of footage of livingrooms in Christianshavn. The footage has been colleted during my visit to 25 appartments in Christianshavn. Meeting point is built as a white room with a table and two chairs. The interiors are being projected into the “room” area.
