Welcome on May 19 from 4 PM to Getamej residency for a gathering and an experiment in listening with Andrius Arutiunian, as part of the Sonic Laboratory program.

“The moment that tempo begins retreating into its slowest chambers, a strange sense of groundlessness appears. Try slowing down your favourite track at first by double, then by four, and then by seven times at last. A millisecond stretched out into an eternity, a waveform folding back onto itself. You will begin hearing the laws of music collapsing in front of your eyes. The cracks and dead zones appear; all the things that hid behind the glittering lights of sounding good and in-tune. Of being well. These dark spots that emerge instead are not the pure absence of sound, but rather a peculiar negative through which the real things themselves manifest.”

In his series of works called “Gharīb” Andrius Arutiunian experiments with time, attunement, dissonance, and vernacular knowledges. Using some of the principles behind the “Gharīb” Arutiunian will present a hypnotic sonic situation of slowed proportions, emerging through repetition and resonance.

“I insist, try dancing slower next time and you will notice a new world emerging from just below your feet.”

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We will be making soup and salads from greens and we will share a dinner together during the day. Bring some food and drinks with you for our table to eat and spend the day together.

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Andrius Arutiunian (b.1991) is an Armenian-Lithuanian artist and composer exploring sonic dissent, aural cosmologies, and vernacularity through sound works, installations, films and performances.

In 2022 Arutiunian represented Armenia at the 59th Venice Art Biennale with a solo show entitled Gharīb. Other biennial shows include the 14th Shanghai Biennale: Cosmos Cinema, the 15th Lyon Biennale, and the 14th Kaunas Biennial. Selected group shows include Palais de Tokyo (Paris), documenta 14 Parliament of Bodies (Kassel), Le Fresnoy and Centre Pompidou (Tourcoing), FACT (Liverpool), and Contemporary Art Centre (Vilnius). In 2024 Arutiunian was shortlisted for the Future Generation Art Prize (Kiev) and has received a DAAD fellowship in Berlin 2023-24.

Organised in collaboration with Anne Davidian (praxis matters)