Guided tour of Ghost Agency’s 'Session 8' with Gro Sarauw

Meet artist Gro Sarauw for an exclusive tour of Session 8 - an exhibition by Ghost Agency – Gro Sarauw (DK) and Anni Garza Lau (MX). The tour offers insight into layered narratives that reflect on agency and sanctuary in the digital age, alongside the long-term, interdisciplinary and cross-sector collaborations across continents that shape Ghost Agency’s artistic research. ~INFOGuided tour of Ghost Agency’s Session 8 with Gro Sarauw12 Feb, 202615:00–16:00The event is free, but please sign up on Billetto. Room RoomThoravej 292400 Copenhagen NV ~ ABOUT THE EXHIBITIONSession 8 is the first solo exhibition in Denmark by Ghost Agency, the artistic practice of Anni Garza Lau and Gro Sarauw. In their work with digital surveillance and the loss of privacy, Ghost Agency focus on the development of tools and strategies to aid our survival in the shadow of the digital hegemony extracting our data and agency. In Session 8, the artists ask: How can those who need to find sanctuary intervene in technology – or bypass it altogether?In the exhibition, the trope of the black box has several connotations. One suggests the way in which the functioning of technology is deliberately obscured and biased by those who build, control, and profit from it. Another points to the exhibition’s theatre-like, immersive staging of interfaces between online and offline spaces. Maybe it is in these penumbral zones and in-between spaces that digital sanctuaries are to be discovered, and new avenues of shared hope can be imagined through evolving collective practices?Ghost Agency present their work in AHC’s exhibition platform Room Room as part of AHC’s collaborative Micro Institute programme for 2023–2026.Session 8 is supported by the Danish Ministry of Culture and the Ministry Foreign Affairs’ Strategic Development Projects funding scheme for international cultural cooperation, the New Carlsberg Foundation, the Nordic Culture Fund and the Danish Arts Foundation.