The School of Girls II – A Citizens’ Encounter (2017)





The second research project of Maike Gunsilius focused on the transgenerational relation between girls and women as citizens. In the The School of Girls II – A Citizens’ Encounter their acting together as citizens was the topic of research. Five girls met five women. In one-on-one constellations, one girl and one woman spent a day together in Hamburg. They were given performative instructions, some materials and 200 euros. With these means, each team investigated how to act together in public and if and how this acting could become a practice of citizenship. In the evening, they presented the results of their research in the format of a lecture performance for a public at FUNDUS THEATER/Theatre of Research. Maike Gunsilius, The School of Girls II – A Citizens’ Encounter, 2017, Hamburg