アルヴィダ・バイストロムのインスタグラム(arvidabystrom) - 9月22日 00時42分

At my past two art openings I have been live streaming from within the gallery and encouraged people that if they want to talk to me they need to log into the live stream in the chatroom. This idea sprung out of the way I always been communicating with people regarding to my art; namely from an online space where I don’t need to discuss my practise face to face with people. To me this have been essential for me even showing my creativity and its outcome to people. I simply think it is too embarrassing to do art and I am way too socially anxious to pull off an elevator pitch on any subject either or.

The fact that people can’t get eye contact with me on the show openings seems to make people interact with me in pretty dehumanizing ways. Since I’ve been sitting in the middle of the gallery on a stool or a daybed I get that people read it as if I’m on a stage and that this encourage people to take photos of me. What is truly strange and objectifying to me is the people that start posing with me as if i was a statue or the ones photographing or filming me for hours in very intrusive and physically close ways.
I get that me presenting myself as a femmy creature unwilling to return the gaze can be problematic and walking in the paths of old ways of depicting females, but what if one is just too shy and uncomfortable with talking with people offline - should they really get punished like this just like a woman becoming a victim of sexual assault getting the blame due to what she was wearing?

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