Call for Participants | Proximity Recollection by Arnis Aleinikovas (2026)
Our digitalised present allows us to stay in constant contact, yet at the same time, isolation is easier than ever. Today, we are surrounded by technologies that have completely transformed society and interpersonal experiences. What, then, do distance and closeness mean under these circumstances?
For the project "Proximity Recollection", Lithuanian artist Arnis Aleinikovas, together with professional and non-professional artists, explores precisely this question. When do we feel close? How do we fulfill our social needs? What opportunities do we have to come together?
For five workshops and a presentation of the resulting work at FALTE, we’re looking for interested participants of all ages who are eager to engage in interdisciplinary artistic work and performance (no prior experience is necessary).
Participation is free of charge.
The main working language is English.
Theatre show "Sistere Tempus" - in contemporary art festival "Tallinn Fringe" (2026)
The performance “Sistere Tempus”, directed by Arnis Aleinikovas, this September will be presented at the contemporary performing arts festival "Tallinn Fringe" in Estonia.
The "Tallinn Fringe" festival began in 2016 as a collective showcase of circus, theatre, dance, music, and fire performers in the creative district of Telliskivi in Tallinn, Estonia. During five action-filled days, artists presented their performances while collaborating on a unique joint production. Over the past ten years, the festival has grown into an international event and one of the most prominent performing arts festivals in the Baltic States, annually presenting more than 40 different works from around the world.
The performance “Sistere Tempus” will be presented on September 12 at 18:00 at "Vaba Lava", one of Tallinn’s leading experimental theatre venues.
“Sistere Tempus” (Latin for “to stop time”) is an absurd comedy balancing between reality and theatre, between fictional characters and the existence of real people, between the flow of time and its suspension. At the center of the performance is a newly invented device created by scientists that allows anyone who possesses it to stop time whenever they wish.
“Future Humans” corporation is filming a commercial for the device, directed and edited in real time by artificial intelligence. Through absurd, comedic, and at times illogical scenes, the performance reveals not only the true faces, desires, and secrets of people, but also an overwhelming longing to pause and begin living more slowly.
Visual art showcase "Echoes: Joy" (2026)
NGO “Alternatyvi Scena” (ALTR) and Meno Parkas Gallery present the second edition of the one-day visual art showcase “Echoes”.
In this period of unrest, uncertainty, and both personal and collective turbulence, it is especially important to speak about joy, as it becomes a counterbalance to fear, chaos, and pessimism. In such times, joy is not a superficial or naive feeling — it is a conscious choice to see hope, strengthen community, and build emotional resilience.
The program aims to reveal that joy is not a simplified or one-sidedly positive image. It emerges as a result — sometimes after physical and emotional challenges, after confronting fears, feelings of shame, social norms, or the limitations of the body. Here, artists explore joy as a fragile and paradoxical phenomenon: arising from contact with others, from the courage to be vulnerable, and from the desire to form genuine connections, even when this requires passing through physically or emotionally difficult states.
SINUO concert in the international film festival "LUKSUZ" (2026)
The Luksuz Film Festival returns for its 23rd edition, continuing its mission to support
independent filmmaking from around the world. Founded in 2003 by Luksuz Produkcija, the festival has become a unique platform for emerging authors and grassroots voices that challenge dominant narratives.
This year international film festival was officially opened with SINUO' live music concert, presenting the latest works of an artist.
SINUO unveils new album "North Wind": "The Human Condition in an Age of Noise and Constant Change" (2026)
Lithuanian electronic music producer SINUO (real name Arnis Aleinikovas) presents his second digital album of the year "North Wind". Inspired by the Lithuanian landscape, the record uses nature as a metaphor to explore constant change and the human experience amid the overwhelming noise of modern life.
We live in a time that constantly encourages us to pursue more—more achievements, more experiences, more speed. Even when we have the opportunity to pause and reflect on how far we've come, we often find ways to escape the present moment. Yet perhaps the greatest step forward is learning to slow down, recognize how much we already have, and ask ourselves whether change always has to mean moving forward.
This idea forms the foundation of SINUO's latest electronic album, North Wind, a collection of nine tracks that explore movement, stillness, and transformation.
"I'd describe the album as quite dynamic," says Arnis Aleinikovas. "I rarely begin writing music with a melody or a beat. More often, I start with an atmosphere or a fleeting moment that I want to preserve. From there, I gradually build layers around it until an entire sonic world begins to emerge."
"North Wind opens with blooming flowers—a metaphor for continuous growth and the fragile beauty that accompanies it—and concludes with longing, a feeling familiar to anyone who has ever experienced separation."
The latest electronic music album by SINUO, North Wind, will be released on all major digital streaming platforms on June 29. The album is also scheduled to be presented live this autumn in Lithuania, Estonia, Germany, Slovenia, and the United Kingdom.
Theatre show "Office" (2026)
The performance “Office” is the second part of the play “Sistere Tempus.” In an effort to create a theatrical series experience for the audience, the same characters reunite after a tragic event on a film set, this time in the office of the “Future Humans” corporation, where they attempt to uncover what truly happened during the filming of a commercial for the “Sistere Tempus” device.
Kamilė desperately seeks the truth, trying to expose the secrets of the head of the “Future Humans” corporation and understand what happened to her colleague Adrija. However, things are not as simple as they seem — more than one surprise awaits her in the office.
This comedic drama constantly balances between humor and threat, technology and humanity, reality and virtuality. Technologies that promise to stop or control life become just another way to avoid fundamental questions: what does it mean to be human, and are we active participants in our own lives or merely observers?
Playwright and director – Arnis Aleinikovas
Composer – SINUO
Lighting and Sound Design – Emilis Jonkus and Nojus Krasuckas
Photographer – Viktorija Lankauskaitė
Cast:
Manager – Donatas Laurinavičius
Kamilė – Gabrielė Jučienė
Assistant – Diana Karlauskaitė
Adrija – Devika Gabriūnaitė
Courier – Dominykas Juškys
Office Workers – Kotryna Markevičiūtė, Viktorija Grigonytė, Performance
Voice – Viktorija Kuzabavičiūtė
The latest SINUO album "Reverie" (2026)
On February 18 (2026), SINUO’s latest album “Reverie” has been released on all digital music streaming platforms.
The album’s title itself refers to a state in which consciousness withdraws from instrumental thinking and allows unarticulated impulses to surface — intuitions, affects, and yet-unnamed directions. SINUO transforms this in-between space into the structural principle of the album: the music does not so much lead as it creates a space in which listeners can wander together, question, be surprised, feel inspired, or slow down.
In the album, reality is presented not as something given, but as a relationship — with the city, with time, with other people, with memory, and with oneself. It is a relationship constantly reconstructed through the decision not to look back, an unexpected phone call, blurred dreams, or moments when the horizon seems to narrow — or, conversely, suddenly open up. “Reverie” asks not what we see, but how we see — and how that gaze transforms our very being.
