Mobilizing Citizenship: Autumn 2022
Project
September – December 2022
The Walk of Shame workshop focused on identity and imaginable futures. What kind of future are we longing after? When we talk about the future, we also identify the contemporary. Utopias are constantly developing, changing in pace with how our communities develop. We offered the participants a set of tools to allow reflection around making choices, taking positions and exaggerating points of view. The participants shaped fictional visual and auditive landscapes and characters that were documented and logged in short videos. These snippets are posted in social media to encourage discussions about digital identity and internet as gallery space.
The first day focused on getting to know each other and gather digital material as a visual backdrop and moodboard for what was developed together during the two days. There will be separate sessions for sound, costume and backdrops and compose these different elements in a total form of expression, discussing equality in means of expression. The participants will use these tools to develop a chosen character and a corresponding habitat.
Curator: Kristina Ketola Bore
Project Manager: Marisa Molin
Youth Worker: Trine Ottosen
Mobilizing Citizenship has received generous funding from Arts Council Norway and Nordic Culture Point.
Walk of Shame
Established in 2012, WALK OF SHAME (WOS) is an artist collective based in Bergen, Norway comprised of Gulli Sekse, Hanne Maren Meldahl and Karoline Skuseth. Exploring the interrelation between performative and social spaces, WOS seeks to challenge the established hegemony of genres across disciplines such as visual arts, performance, live arts, and concerts. WOS’ visual expression combines elements such as clubbing culture, natural landscapes, trash culture and consumerism.
Mobilizing Citizenship (MC)
Mobilizing Citizenship (MC) is an educational project where Norwegian and international artists and designers are invited to work with a small group of young people aged 12-16 at Kunsthall Stavanger during one semester. The overall focus of MC is to investigate how young people can use tools and methods from contemporary art to express themselves and be heard in today's society. MC is not a talent development programme, but rather an investigation into how contemporary art can be a relevant contribution in young people’s lives.
Since its inception in 2018, MC has developed into a practice-based research project. During the period 2022–2024, the project will focus on building more knowledge about how we can create good meetings between contemporary art and young people. As part of this, we are collaborating with institutions and cultural workers from around the world who have expertise in this area. The result of the project will take the form of reflections and documentations, made accessible to artists, curators, cultural workers and institutions who want to create relevant offerings for young people.
Previous Themes and Participants:
Spring 2022
DRAMA
With: Lee Heinemann (curator), Delali Ayivor, Lex Brown, Ingela Ihrman
Autumn 2019
Unpacking the Visual Norms
With: Benedetta Crippa, Toxic Waste Face, Jennie Bringaker, Lee Heinemann
Spring 2019
Movement and Body Representation
With: WALK OF SHAME, Sidsel Christensen, Zinzi Minott, Trojan Horse (Kaisa Karvinen, Tommi Vasko)
Autumn 2018
Public Space in the Context of the Digital
With: Clara Balaguer, Eglé Kulbokaité and Dorota Gawęda, Laurel Schwulst, Andreas Knag Danielsen and David Lamignan Larsen
Spring 2018
Activism as Artistic Tool
With: Hardworking Goodlooking (Clara Balaguer, Kristian Henson), Synnøve Sizou G. Wetten, Hans Edward Hammonds, Nicole Killian and Benjamin Hickethier
