An Experiment on Agency #7
Performative Lecture
An Experiment on Agency #6: A Discussion on Civic Participation
(Photos by Renārs Koris)
An Experiment on Agency #5
An Experiment on Agency #4
An Experiment on Agency #3
An Experiment on Agency #2
Since it was not possible to make my practice public, due to Covid-19, An Experiment on Agency #2 was placed without any participant. Through an essay A Landscape of Absence: Reflections on Participatory Installation during a Pandemic andThe Installation art, physical presence and collective space, I investigated the relationship and conversation around socio-political installation art, the importance of physical presence, and public assembly as a political act
The video documentation is a collaboration with sound designer, Merve Erez.
An Experiment on Agency #1
An Experiment on Agency
Ongoing participatory project since 2020
An Experiment on Agency is an ongoing research-based participatory artistic project focusing on the notion of agency in dilemmatic political situations, where the actors facing these dilemmas are in a ‘lose-lose’ predicament (Frost, 2003). These situations leave the actor with a difficult choice between two or more undesirable alternatives based on the given context – to choose over censorship and freedom of speech in a critical context; to lie, leave, fight, protest, believe, follow, vote.
In creating a series of incremental artistic practice experiments, the project inquires into how artistic practice can lead viewers to question, discuss and understand the existence of agency within such dilemmatic choices. Furthermore, the experience of the inquiry is meant to raise this open question: If in some situations we lose agency, which systems are depriving us of it.
Events:
An Experiment on Agency #7 (Performative Lecture), Connective Symposium, Fontys University of the Arts Tilburg, Netherlands, 2022
An Experiment on Agency #6: A Discussion on Civic Participation, RIBOCA (Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art) Repository of Knowledge, M-Gallery, Riga, Latvia, 2022
An Experiment on Agency #5 – Skogen, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2022
An Experiment on Agency #4 – Skogen, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2020
An Experiment on Agency #3 – Cittadellarte, Biella, Italy, 2020
An Experiment on Agency #2 / without bodies – HDK-Valand, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2020
An Experiment on Agency #1 – Gallery Monitor, Gothenburg, Sweden, 2019