Methods of Art – Archive of Artists Interviews

I guess, like everyone sees that like the world needs a lot of change and one can only speculate what that could be. I think our work has an intention in this speculation I guess, of potential change and potential future. Because it doesn’t seem perfect as it is. (D.G.): Yeah, I guess so. It’s also, for us, working together is something like a- I don’t know, something really important in art making. Also, just kind of recognizing the possibility of a kind of- I don’t know, multiple voice, that is not a singular voice but one that is like somehow negotiated between many people. Like a more complex kind of standpoint as an artist that’s just like one individual defined position. I guess like this- on a personal level, is like learning more about the world and like finding different ways to share knowledge and be with people. On the level of our work, like, we wanna speak, I guess, to the audience about like these things that we think it’s important and also like share the research, that we kind of do with this reading. Like in continuous reading sessions. Just have a conversation with also like everyone, like, a lot about dialog, I guess. (D.G.): Yeah, and we want to maybe- what I was trying to say earlier is, that we want to speak through a voice that is a collectively composed voice. And not as an individual artist but somehow like a different kind of position that is built in a different way, I guess, maybe (E.K.): Yeah, I guess, to think of alternate ways of making art also, like more collectively.

Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė / Intention

Bio

Dorota Gawęda (PL) and Eglė Kulbokaitė (LT) are an artist duo based in Basel (CH). Both are 2012 graduates of the Royal College of Art in London. Their work spans performance, sculpture, painting, photography, fragrance and video. Gawęda and Kulbokaitė are the recipients of the Swiss Performance Art Award 2021 and the Collide Residency Award. In 2022 they will be on residency at CERN in Geneva/Hangar in Barcelona and EPFL, Lausanne. They are also the founders of YOUNG GIRL READING GROUP (2013– 2021).

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Credits

The interview was conducted on 12 September 2019 in Dresden.
Interviewed by: Kristin Klein
Filmed and recorded by: Paul Barsch, Alexander Gehrke
Edited by: Nicolas Seiffert
Transcript by: Kristin Klein
Produced by: Universität zu Köln, DKM, Fachbereich Kunst und Kunsttheorie