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Young-Girl Giggling
Es Gandrup + Rosa Lie
January 2023
Descriptions of the experience of the character of the Young-Girl manifesting as a physical product itself through collaged poetry and imagery on print. The zine strives to illustrate the distorted narratives and unwavering perceptions of the character of the Young-Girl. The text is a mixe of fictional phenomena and ungrateful truth.
This was published as part of the project
Young-Girl Giggling
, shown through
udstilling *21
at Springbrættet 6a, Copenhagen, 2023.
SHIFTING SENSE OF SELF IN HYPER-GENDER REALITY
BFA Thesis, Rietveld Fine Arts
June 2022
The thesis explores how processes, fluidity and hidden things can relate to gender, performance and image making. It is an attempt to embrace self-objectification within art. And to embrace the confrontation between trauma and the sense self, which can occur in images. It suggests solutions for protecting the self in a context of art. It explores strategies for survival in spite of gendering norms and find acceptance in the inevitable curse of being gendered female.
‘To be female is to let someone else do your desiring for you, at your own expense.’
A political, personal unfolding of what it means to be gendered female at this moment in art.
Thoughts on power structures going unnoticed and how to find common ground in art education
Gerrit Rietveld Academy
19 April 2019
Article on the status of student democracy, surveillance and lack of transperancy at the Rietveld Academy.
”Democracy is, arguably, the uniting, empty signifier of our times, and as such something insurmountable and impossible to deny or defy openly. In the public language game, no one can argue against democracy within democracy,…”
- Simon Sheikh quoted in ‘Public Spheres and the Functions of Progressive Art Institutions’
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Shifting Sense of Self in Hyper-gender Reality, 96 pages 15 €
Young-Girl Giggling, 24 pages 5 €
