Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė, "Brood"

It focuses on the moments when identities merge, the body is no longer a frontier that contains and supervises but a porous identity with leaks and spillages linking us to the world. Over one whole day, the performance will take place in several spaces, between the Sulk installation in Forum – 1, the Petite Salle and the virtual environment of the video transmission. 

Dorota Gawęda (1986, Lublin, Poland) and Eglė Kulbokaitė (1987, Kaunas, Lithuania) are a duo of artists based in Basel, Switzerland. They are both graduates of the London Royal College of Art (2012) and founders of the Young Girl Reading Group (2013-2021). Their work blends performance, painting, sculpture, fragrance and video installations and they maintain a practice based on research that combines domains as disparate as ecology and technology, science and magic, non-human intelligence and shared speculation. The duo has exhibited notably in Kunsthalle Mainz, (2023) (Germany); Ar/Ge Kunst, Bolzano (2022) (Italy); Shedhalle, Zurich (2022) (Switzerland); Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna (2022) (Austria); Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris (2022); Kunstverein Hamburg (2021) (Germany); Istituto Svizzero, Palermo and Milan (2021) (Italy); Kunstverein Leipzig (2021) (Germany); Institut Suisse, New York (2020) (United States); Collection Julia Stoschek, Düsseldorf (2020) (Germany); Lafayette Anticipations, Paris (2019) and Palais de Tokyo, Paris (2018). They were awarded the Allegro Artist Prize 2022, the Arts at CERN Collide residency prize in 2022 and the Swiss Performance Art Award 2021.