In this workshop, Clara Balaguer asked future adults (ages 12–16) to explore the concepts of visibility and invisibility. Working mostly as a collective but sometimes individually, they explored how being seen or unseen affects them in their daily lives as well as online.
Using blankets, flashlights and art supplies and the spaces of Kunsthall Stavanger, they came up with small performances on how to become visible (to find strength, perhaps) or invisible (maybe to find calm). The results of their exercises, discussions, and performances was collected in zines, created in groups, exploring how it feels to be a young ghost and what they wish could be more visible and invisible online.
Curator: Kristina Ketola Bore.
Mobilizing Citizenship has received generous funding from Arts Council Norway and Rogaland County Municipality.
(Clara) Lobregat Balaguer (Manila,1980) is a cultural worker interested in the decolonization of cultural production most especially through the lens of the contemporary vernacular. She founded The Office of Culture and Design in 2010, a platform through which she articulates research, residencies, and social practice projects in the Philippines. She explores collaborative authorship through the clandestine publishing of Hardworking Goodlooking, a cottage-industry fuelled imprint she co-founded in 2013. She has lectured at Walker Art Center, Harvard GSD, MIT, Strelka Moscow, MoMA PS1, Triple Canopy, Hanyang University Seoul, and University of the Philippines. Her work has been exhibited and performed at Asia Culture Center, Singapore Art Museum, Art Dubai, Hangar Barcelona, and La Capella.