13.-24.01.17:

 

Ai am looking away,
Ai head upturned to the stars.

 

Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė

13.-24.01.17: Ai am looking away, Ai head upturned to the stars.
Dorota Gawęda & Eglė Kulbokaitė

 
Ai* am looking away, Ai head upturned to the stars. The swan, the towel,
the rock, the foot, the gargoyle – the labyrinth of cosmos.
 
*Here we use the pronoun Ai: Ai has a content that does not distinguish itself from other things or beings, because the me subject is either pure negativity or a splitting movement; it is consciousness. There’s no more self, me. We are all Ai. Ai is Ai. No subject. No desire. Used instead of I/ you/ he/ she/ it/ her/ his/ they/ them/ etc. ‘Ai’ (in hiragana あい, in katakana アイ, in kanji 愛, 藍, 亜衣) is a Japanese feminine given name. Ai could mean love, affection (愛), or indigo (藍). Ai is the main character of the Ursula K. Le Guin story The Left Hand of Darkness. Ai is, of course, AI.

Dorota Gawęda (PL) and Eglė Kulbokaitė (LT) are an artist and writer duo based in Berlin (DE) and Basel (CH). Both are 2012 graduates of Royal College of Art in London and founders of YOUNG GIRL READING GROUP (2013- ) and Agatha Valkyrie Ice (2014-), currently co-directing OSLO1O project space in Basel. Recent shows include: Who Are You?, SALTS, Basel; Whistles of Surfaces, Point Centre for Contemporary Art, Nicosia, Cyprus; Corazón, BB5000 Studio, Milan, Italy; Memory, Loyal, Stockholm; A Thousand Friend: part 2, New Jorg/exo exo, Vienna; Boat Rage #7, Berlin Biennale 9.
 
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