Mobilizing Citizenship: Ghost with Clara Balaguer
September – September 2018
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 2018 autumn semester explored the potential of digital platforms and spaces.
In the workshop, Ghost, the participants discussed questions around visibility and invisibility and how being seen or unseen affects us in daily lives as well as online. Together with artist and designer Laurel Schwulst, they created their own online newspaper, Made in a Day, while focusing on tempo of the online and the physical. In the workshop run by Eglé Kulbokaité and Dorota Gawęda, the participants created performance video pieces informed by language as material. In the final workshop of the semester, the participants created an online exhibition only available for 24 hours. The workshop encouraged the future adults to question the borders between
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 2018 autumn semester explored the potential of digital platforms and spaces.
In the workshop, Ghost, the participants discussed questions around visibility and invisibility and how being seen or unseen affects us in daily lives as well as online. Together with artist and designer Laurel Schwulst, they created their own online newspaper, Made in a Day, while focusing on tempo of the online and the physical. In the workshop run by Eglé Kulbokaité and Dorota Gawęda, the participants created performance video pieces informed by language as material. In the final workshop of the semester, the participants created an online exhibition only available for 24 hours. The workshop encouraged the future adults to question the borders between the digital and the physical world, and how they can use simple and accessible tools (cardboard, tape, scissors and smartphones) to create a platform where they can be seen and heard.
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.
Curator: Kristina Ketola Bore.
Mobilizing Citizenship has received generous funding from Arts Council Norway, Nordic Culture Point and Rogaland County Municipality.
Mobilizing Citizenship
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
