In our first regular broadcast and last livestream for the year, Guri speaks with us about inhabiting different bodies through performance, art wear, and care work. Collectivity, queerness, and disability manifests our conversation as necessary for experiences and challenges of belonging and togetherness in our contemporary world.
This livestreamed event was hosted on and livestreamed from Eternal Conferences' Twitch channel! Eternal Conferences' first livestream was moderated by artist and educator Alfred Marasigan. Sign Language Interpretation by Jerwin Darag.
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About Guri Simone Øveraas
Guri Simone Øveraas (b. 1990) was born and raised in Tråante/Trondheim. She has a Bachelor from Trondheim Academy of fine art and studied her masters at Tromsø Academy of fine art where she graduated spring 2020.
Through performance and sculptural works, she tells stories from her fantasy and reality, where she often mixes the absurd with the familiar. Her works evolves around identity and often explores the feeling being alienated and/or the feeling of being part of something. The audience are often invited to take part in her works.
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Jerwin Darag is a Corporate Researcher Analyst. In this capacity, he does a lot of research regarding different people and companies online. He has previously worked in the LGU of Makati under Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Office, Administrative Section.
He finished my Bachelor's degree in Office Administration at the Polytechnic University of the Philippines. He has also studied sign language in the Philippine Registry of Interpreters for the Deaf, Inc (PRID) in Pasay City. But even before that, he has already been actively involved in teaching the deaf about the Bible since way back 2008. Actually, even during the pandemic and now, they are reaching people who are deaf via virtual meeting or Zoom.
With that said, as an Interpreter, he seeks to deliver the message accurately and clearly for our audiences who are deaf.
