gilbertandgrape was a collaborative project between Helen Pritchard (UK) and Anne-Marte Eidseth Rygh (N). Established in 2003 the artists shared a background in performance writing at Dartington College of Arts, UK. GilbertandGrape work within a genre they called performance journalism.The work often took the form of videos, performance, texts and off-line/online work which explored a longing to collaborate with each other and the people we meet. They made practical and collaborative explorations of the idea of Artist as Reader/ Audience As Reader. Epic actions, amateurish events and gigantic endeavours which shared authority with readers in pursuit of disrupting the social roles of reader and writer/artist. The work was driven by a desire to connect with others. It engaged with ideas of 'liveness' and physical presence/absence. Using the body as the mode of perceiving scale from symmetry and balance, to the grotesque and disproportionate. Central to this was the idea of subjectivity of perspective and the individuality of viewpoint. The contemplation on ideas (especially in relation to technology) and concepts which without the body have no scale of reference. These thoughts surfaced in performance action/rituals and live reading/writing.