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 togetherness look like in public spaces?" We’ll find ourselves performing little shared actions, subtle gestures of connection, all while walking through the cityscape. With each step, the familiar might start to feel surprising, and the surprising, oddly familiar.

This isn’t a tour - it’s an invitation to make the city feel like it belongs 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 whispered 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?

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Made by: Vera Popova, Gosia Trajkowska

Soundscape: Agata Lech

Visual material: Bjørn Penk

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When & Where:
Wednesday, 29th of January: 18:00 - 18:45

Saturday, 1st of February: 11:00 - 11:45 + Q&A

Sunday, 2nd of February: 11:00 - 11:45

Walk starting point: Kyiv Square

Map location: [43X4+354, Garðastræti, 101 Reykjavík]

Q&A location: Skuggi, Performing Arts studio of Listaháskóli Íslands, 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

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Gosia Trajkowska is a performer, visual artist, songwriter, and theater director who thrives 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 possibilities and limitations 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 theatre 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 explores the sociocultural aspects of life in Poland and Warsaw from a migrant perspective. Vera is also a laureate of the 5th edition of the STREFA KONTAKTU dramaturgy competition.

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 contemplating memories, nostalgic thoughts, her imagination and dreams. The basis of many of her projects is making up stories about objects or places which lead her works onto a fictional surface. In her practice she often brings up very intimate subjects, allowing their personal aspect to resonate with the viewers as a universal experience. She is interested in the fleeting feelings and sensations that small gestures of art can convey. In 2022 she received an Artistic Prize from the President of the city Szczecin. She lives and works in Szczecin.