A two day workshop followed the backbone of the YGRG creative process; where text becomes the basis for experimentation and play for a group of people. At Kunsthall Stavanger the participants and artists explored how reading together can be inscribed in the space, how language can become material. After charting interests we worked within an additive process where outlouded and inscribed words created and embodied vocabulary that were presented for each other.
In group the participants reconfiguring the text based on the exquisite corpse cut-up technique. The text created together was used during the second part of the day as a visual material in the production of T-Shirts/performance costume.
A final stage consisted of performances in front of 360 degree camera and a professional camera, which was later edited and turned into a series of video performances.
Curator: Kristina Ketola Bore
Mobilizing Citizenship has received generous funding from Arts Council Norway and and Rogaland County Municipality.
Dorota Gawęda (PL) and Eglė Kulbokaitė (LT) are an artist duo founded in 2013, living in Basel and Athens. In their work they address feminist inspired theory and fiction, technology-driven emancipation and discursiveness of space. They are the founders of YOUNG GIRL READING GROUP (2013- ) and Agatha Valkyrie Ice (2014-). With YOUNG GIRL READING GROUP, Gawęda and Kulbokaitė investigate the act of reading as an intimate experience, holding the potentiality to become public performance through the “outlouding” of words. Agatha Valkyrie Ice is a multi-platform, participatory, self-performance project and enquiry that functions as an artistic strategy to explore parallels in identity and artistic production. Dorota Gawęda and Eglė Kulbokaitė have recently exhibited their work at Art in General, New York; Cell Project Space, London; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; Amanda Wilkinson Gallery, London; Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin; Knipsu, Bergen; Sodų4 and Editorial in Vilnius; 13th Baltic Triennial at the Contemporary Art Centre in Vilnius; Kunsthalle Basel; Institute of Contemporary Art in London; Art Athina; SMK- National Museum of Denmark in Copenhagen; 1.1, Basel; Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf; Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw; SALTS, Basel; LISTE Performance Project; Berlin Biennale 9; CCS Bard, NY; Kunsthalle Zurich; Le Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris among others.
