Sandra Kazlauskaitė 

Projects:

  1. Endless Loops of Mourning, 2024

  2. Sound Considered Museum, 2024

  3. What if I told you, that Everything I Touch Turns into Gold, 2024

  4. Snow White, 2023

  5. The Everyday (Pt. 1), 2023

  6. Gendered Soundscapes, 2022-Ongoing

  7. Tracing Echoes, 2021

  8. With Silences, 2020

  9. Expanded Soundscapes, 2018-2020

  10. Oasis, 2016-2017

  11. 13.1.91, 2016-2017

  12. What Happens When Something Happens, 2016

  13. Airport, 2015

  14. Sound | Place, 2015

  15. Cotemporal Encounters, 2015



Publications:

  1. Silence, 2023

  2. Post-Soviet Gendered Soundscapes, 2022

  3. Women Sonic Thinkers: The Histories of Seeing, Touching and Embodying Sound, 2019

  4. Doing Sonic Feminism, 2018

  5. Soundscapes of the Post-Soviet World: Resounding Lithuania, 2015


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13.1.91, 2016-2017




13.1.91', Exhibition View, 2016, Surrey Gallery, Guildford, 4 Ch Video, 4 Ch Sound, Looped. Photo Credit: Daniel Beck



13.1.91', Exhibition View, 2016, Surrey Gallery, Guildford, 4 Ch Video, 4 Ch Sound, Looped. Photo Credit: Daniel Beck



13.1.91', Exhibition View, 2016, Surrey Gallery, Guildford, 4 Ch Video, 4 Ch Sound, Looped. Photo Credit: Daniel Beck



13.1.91', Exhibition View, 2016, Surrey Gallery, Guildford, 4 Ch Video, 4 Ch Sound, Looped. Photo Credit: Daniel Beck



'13.1.91', Exhibition View, 2016, Surrey Gallery, Guildford, 4 Ch Video, 4 Ch Sound, Looped. Video Credit: Daniel Beck


“13.1.91” is a multi-channel audiovisual sculpture, constructed using four 35” HD screens and a four-channel speaker setup. The installation utilises a rediscovered video archive of a political protest, which took place in the USSR, now independent Lithuania, in January 1991. Using analogue and digital video technology the artwork addresses a specific historical moment – a political conflict, during which thirteen individuals were killed and over a thousand citizens were injured. This protest became a significant political mark as it led the country towards its independence later that year. In addition, the event sparked further political unrest in the neighbouring USSR countries, including Belarus and Ukraine, which resulted in an overall dissolution of the Soviet Union. The January 1991 protest was closely documented by the National Radio and Television Broadcast as well as non-professional camera users, who used VHS camcorders to capture the event.

In “13.1.91” , I expose the bodies of the protesters as discovered in the immense video archive. The piece consists of a number of screens showcasing the enlarged and decelerated protesters’ faces accompanied by decelerated sound of the event – masses cheering and screaming. Using technology as the main tool for questioning, here, I offer a historiographic intervention, or, using sound and video, bring the forgotten bodies – the bodies that fought for freedom – from history into the present.