Mobilizing Citizenship: The Hyper Backdrop with Benedetta Crippa
September – September 2019
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.
For the autumn 2019 semester, we focused on visual norms, asking why we perceive something as beautiful. By exploring the dominating visual standards, we questioned the assumptions we tie to them and, subsequently, how we can challenge the current norms.
In Bendetta Crippas workshop the future adults expanded their own power of visual creation and self-expression through visuality. Together with Toxic Waste Face the participants dove deep into character development work, while dissecting the underpinnings of modern fairytales. Jennie Bringaker brought the group together in a collective exploration of sculptural constructions and presumptions. Lee Heinemann worked with a recognizable TV formats, subverting them in order to articulate reflections around a world we would want
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.
For the autumn 2019 semester, we focused on visual norms, asking why we perceive something as beautiful. By exploring the dominating visual standards, we questioned the assumptions we tie to them and, subsequently, how we can challenge the current norms.
In Bendetta Crippas workshop the future adults expanded their own power of visual creation and self-expression through visuality. Together with Toxic Waste Face the participants dove deep into character development work, while dissecting the underpinnings of modern fairytales. Jennie Bringaker brought the group together in a collective exploration of sculptural constructions and presumptions. Lee Heinemann worked with a recognizable TV formats, subverting them in order to articulate reflections around a world we would want to see.
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
Project Manager: Marisa Molin
Youth Worker: Trine Ottosen
Mobilizing Citizenship has received generous funding from Arts Council Norway and Nordic Culture Point.
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
