Gabija Bubnytė

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

CURRENTLY: 
starting a PhD at ISP laboratory on Deconstructing the ‘post-Soviet’ category abroad through cultural diplomacy practices of the Lithuanian diaspora and cultural professionals in France.

PREVIOUSLY:
graduate of the PDI Master (Pratique de l’interdisciplinarité en  sciences sociales) at ENS-EHESS.
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

Visual fragments from my two Master's theses researching (1) Lithuanian LGBT+ activist organisations and their relationships with international financial aid and (2) the material practices of the art publishing world. Academic research is an inherently visual process, and ways of showing and working through information visually emerged throughout. This vision board captures one such trace, showing how the work took shapes beyond the purely written text. The writing process always leaves images behind, and this is an attempt 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. 
6. Mapping of the intertwining relationships in the art publishing world in Paris.  2024-2025


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

La Souterraine is a publication developed from a research workshop bridging documentary photography and ethnography at École normale supérieure. Following the workshop, I was invited by the supervising team of researchers and photographers to design the final publication, documenting that year's body of student work and highlighting the possibilities of bridging photography with ethnography. 
           PEAK was developed during a seminar at ENSAD, collecting student’s writings 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

Une langue au contact was developed in a workshop on translation at ENSAD. 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. Mapping these words out illustrates how a language is always in conversation with others and how the words that are adopted are never neutral. 

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