ANTON KARYUK
IDENTIFICATION
KARY — KONVENCIJA
Album, 14 tracks, 44 min
2026
KARY is an artistic project by Anton Karyuk that marks his first encounter with sound as a medium, a deliberate departure from visual and spatial practice into the territory of experimental music.
This project started with irritation. Observing never ending public debates around the ratification of the Istanbul Convention in Lithuania, the artist repeatedly encountered hostile comments from people who were, in many cases, the very individuals the Convention was written to protect. Even though the comments often were extremely homophobic and transphobic, queer artist’s reaction was not rage but something closer to bewilderment mixed with irony and dark humor. It was obvious that the text itself was simply unknown to those loudest in rejecting it. Konvencija is an emotional response to that: if you won't read the Convention, perhaps you'll listen to it.
The debut album Konvencija consists of 14 tracks, each titled after one of the 14 chapters of the Istanbul Convention. Rather than interpreting or adapting the legal text, KARY preserves its original linguistic structure, allowing legal clauses to become lyrics and bureaucratic syntax to fold into melody. The result is a body of work positioned between post-punk, pop, and experimental composition: cold institutional language recontextualized as something intimate, fragile, and at times quietly unsettling.
Artificial intelligence is central to the project, not as a production shortcut, but as a genuine collaborator shaping sound, structure, and vocal expression. Through this process, artist raises questions about authorship, meaning and the increasingly porous boundary between human intention and machine-generated form.
Konvencija operates simultaneously as a musical album and as a form of dissemination, circulating the content of a legal document through affect and atmosphere rather than argument, making it accessible in a form that can be felt, remembered, and reimagined.
2026
KARY is an artistic project by Anton Karyuk that marks his first encounter with sound as a medium, a deliberate departure from visual and spatial practice into the territory of experimental music.
This project started with irritation. Observing never ending public debates around the ratification of the Istanbul Convention in Lithuania, the artist repeatedly encountered hostile comments from people who were, in many cases, the very individuals the Convention was written to protect. Even though the comments often were extremely homophobic and transphobic, queer artist’s reaction was not rage but something closer to bewilderment mixed with irony and dark humor. It was obvious that the text itself was simply unknown to those loudest in rejecting it. Konvencija is an emotional response to that: if you won't read the Convention, perhaps you'll listen to it.
The debut album Konvencija consists of 14 tracks, each titled after one of the 14 chapters of the Istanbul Convention. Rather than interpreting or adapting the legal text, KARY preserves its original linguistic structure, allowing legal clauses to become lyrics and bureaucratic syntax to fold into melody. The result is a body of work positioned between post-punk, pop, and experimental composition: cold institutional language recontextualized as something intimate, fragile, and at times quietly unsettling.
Artificial intelligence is central to the project, not as a production shortcut, but as a genuine collaborator shaping sound, structure, and vocal expression. Through this process, artist raises questions about authorship, meaning and the increasingly porous boundary between human intention and machine-generated form.
Konvencija operates simultaneously as a musical album and as a form of dissemination, circulating the content of a legal document through affect and atmosphere rather than argument, making it accessible in a form that can be felt, remembered, and reimagined.
© Anton Karyuk 2026