Gabija Bubnytė

Gabija Bubnytė is interested in the entanglements between research and visual arts.

CURRENTLY: 
in my second-year of the PDI Master (Pratique de l’interdisciplinarité en  sciences sociales) at ENS-EHESS.

PREVIOUSLY:
graduate of the Rotterdam Arts & Sciences Lab (RASL) dual degree (combining International Relations and Politics at EUC and Graphic Design at WdKA).


HIGLIGHTED PROJECTS:

1. EthnoGRAPHIC explorations
2. Conversations about counter-narratives
3. Making public: a collection of publications
4. Une langue au contact


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EthnoGRAPHIC explorations 1 : Master’s thesis

I recently wrote my first year’s master thesis on lithuanian LGBT+ activist organisations and their relationship with international financial aid. While the academic setting in which this was written is not creative, research for me is inherently visual and I found myself finding ways to show and deal with information through visual means. This is just a snippet, in the form of a vision board, of how this work took other shapes than purely a written text. The process of writing always leaves traces and i want to document them.

Images:
1. Landscape of all the ways the research took a visual form. 
2.  Mapping of the research process.
3.  Mapping of the activist trajectories.
4-5. Mapping of the people and symbols seen at Pride.  2024


Conversations about counter-narratives

This project was awarded the 2021 Drempelprijs for Autonomous Practices.

Conversations about Counter-narratives is a workshop developed from a political science research analysing homophobic discourse in Lithuanian online spaces. In the workshop participants learn how homphobic discourse is formed and then practice ways to mitigate through drawings and collages. This allows the scientific research reach wider audiences and collectively think of counter-narratives.
                    The outcomes of the workshops are collected in an online database, and are presented as tools and methods in occupying public space. This allows the outcomes to live beyond the enclosed space of the workshop, and potentially exist in public spaces.

Images:
1. Folder containing all of the workshop’s materials.
2. Close-ups of the three booklets containing the narrativised research.
3. Scans of the inside of the booklets, together with the instructions. 
4. Map explaining how the reserach project and the workshop connect.
5. Image from the workshop at the Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) Vilnius.
6. Some outcomes from the workshop. 

2021


Making public: a collection of publications

Last year I took part in a research workshop bridging together documentary photography and ethnography at ENS (my current university). I was later asked by the supervising team, made up of researchers and photographers, to design the final publication, documenting that year’s students’s works. It was an experience, one that was insightful in how my design background can still find its place in academia.
        The second publication was made during the ENSAD seminar on translation.

Images:
1-2. Excerpts from the project on ethnography and photography.
3-4. Excerpts from the publication PEAK.2023-2024


Une langue au contact

Project made during a class at ENSAD on translation. The graphics explore a lithuanian database of newly created words and dissect which languages these words come from, what categories they find themselves and how they interact with each other.

Images:
1. Map of all the new words and where they come from.
2-4. Exhibition set-up.
2023