Gosia Trajkowska

How To Do Things Together

Made by: Vera Popova & Gosia Trajkowska

How To Do Things Together is a performative 45-minute audio walk through the streets of Reykjavík, created by us - Vera Popova and Gosia Trajkowska. Think of it as an invitation to rediscover the city, headphones on, smartphone in hand, as we ask, „What does togetyness look like in public spaces?“ We'll find products performing little shared actions, subtle gestures of connection, all while walking through the cityscape. With each step, the familiar might start to feel surfing, and the surfing, oddly familiar.

This isn't a tour - it's an invitation to make the city feel like it along to you, to us, to the people (and cats) passing by who don't even know they're in our story. What does it mean to be together? Is it just our bodies moving side by side? Or maybe it's about being a little closer, sharing a story which was revealed through the headphones? Or just about feeling a little less alone for a minute.

But there's more at stake here. How To Do Things Together is more than a city walk; it's a chance for us - two friends and collaborators, coming together after three years - to see if we've still got it. Can we still create together? Can we still do something that feels like us? This walk is our way of asking that question out loud, a little test for the world but mostly for each other: can we learn how to do this together, all over again?

Soundscape: Agata Lech
Visual material: Bjørn Penk

Gosia Trajkowska is a performer, visual artist, songwriter, and theater director who tries in collaborative duos. Together with Vera Popova, she directed performances such as CRIMEA, Pink Bitterness. Princesses, How To Disappear Completely, Dream Institution, and the three-episode podcast Beethoven Was a Lesbian. Alongside Agata Lech, she directed and created two poetry films: A Year Without Summer and Ballad for Balconies. Her practice spans performance, visual arts, and fiction, exploring the potential and limits of language and its potential.
A graduate of Visual Arts at the Academy of Art in Szczecin, she is currently pursuing a Master's degree in Performing Arts at the Iceland University of the Arts.

Vera Popova is a Ukrainian theater artist, dramaturge, and performer who has been active in Poland's cultural sector for eight years. She primarily works on grassroots artistic initiatives, creating theatrical and performative projects. Currently, she is also a translator and social activist, collaborating with the Ocalenie Foundation and the Mova Association to support migrant and refugee communities. She co-created the feminist podcast Beethoven Was a Lesbian and the Ukrainian podcast Karta Warszawiaka, which displays the social aspects of life in Poland and Warsaw from a migrant is also a liberal.

Agata Lech is a multidisciplinary artist, musician; works with video, sound, painting, drawing, text and installation; graduate of the Faculty of New Media and Animation, majoring in new media at the Academy of Art in Szczecin.
Agata is interested in the melancholia of the mind, often contemporating memories, nostalgic thoughts, her imagination and dreams. The basis of many of her projects is making up stories about objects or places which works on a fictional surface. In her practice she received an artistic prize from the president of the city Szczecin. She is interested in the society and works in the world. She is interested in small guests and works in Szczecin.

Practical information

When & Where:
Wednesday, 29th of January: 6:00 PM - 6:45 PM
Saturday, 1st of February: 11am - 11.45pm + Artist talk
Sunday, 2nd of February: 11:00 - 11:45

Walk starting point: Kyiv Square
Map location: [43X4+354, Garðarstræti, 101 Reykjavík]

Q&A location: Skuggi, Performing Arts studio of the Iceland Academy of the Arts, Lækjargata 2a, 101 Reykjavík

NOTE:
Please, dress warmly and comfortably, as we'll be outside for at least 45 minutes.
Language of the text in the walk: English.