Pics from LUNA PARK: What is democracy? participatory artwork performed in Athens Art gallery (2021), Dublin IMMA (2022) and Malta TTT (2023)
This participatory artwork/ performative experiment wishes to inquire on the embodiment of democracy. My approach is based on concepts of post dance and choreopolitics (Lepecki). The artistic research methodology aims to the deepening of the concept and structure of Arquitecturas Biologicas (Lygia Clark). LUNA PARK: what is democracy? is a research project that challenges the perception and embodiment of the in-betweeness (Watsuji Tetsuro) here seen as the ‘tension’ among the individual and the social self. Ultimately, ‘LUNA PARK: what is democracy?’ would like to offer an alternative on current forms of biopolitics as an alternative means of resistance to current politics of time and space.
Video still from documentation of ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’ participatory artwork, AVARTS Festival (2024) CorfuFeedback session after ‘Rock, Paper, Scissors’ participatory artwork, at NSU 2024, hosted by study circle Artistic Research, DK
A workshop-based presentation which is triggered by the current politics between Armenia and Azerbaijan, Israel and Palestine using Nagorno Karabach and Gaza current situation as a symbol for year-lasting conflicts between states. The proposal suggests ethnic cleansing strategies must be added to the list of the Anthropocene and seeks creative solutions making use of performative art as a safe platform to test out and embody new ideas.
In ‘Rock, paper, scissors’, I am borrowing the aesthetics of Japanese gardens in what concerns the fleeting and changing perception of the architecture (space/ time) to explore alternative ways of existing in a more constructive and harmonious ways within the framework of the workshop and beyond. Participants will be invited to create a living system which (as with all living systems) is fragile, subject to change and impossible to fully control. This workshop acts as a social experiment of our ability to listen to each other and to create (or not) harmonious coexistence in space.
Concept, performance, video, narration: Eleni Kolliopoulou
performance, narration: Stratos Papadoudis
video and audio editing: Thanasis Epitideios
With the support of H.F.R.I.
This work is the third artistic research project and part of my current post doctoral research in Butoh-fu inspired dramaturgy.
Watch video documentation: https://vimeo.com/956385594
Αιμοπετάλια/ Platelets (2024) Pic 2
Αιμοπετάλια is a mixed-media performance unfolding around the bodily sensations, feelings, thoughts of war prisoners informed by Butoh-fu ‘Walking as a pure measure’. The visual performance run along the recording of Italo Calvino’s ‘Waiting for death in a hotel’. This work is dedicated to all victims of injustices.
Inhabiting time: Story of a pop corn was performed at Polytechno, Corfu in December 2023. It was a poetic exploration of the time flow through transformation/ metamorphosis of materials, sounds and light.
Music: Pythoprakta (1955) by Iannis Xenakis The mixed-media performance is funded by H.F.R.I.. It is part of my post doctoral research hosted by Ionian University, AVARTS.
Blind time action/ Ιππόλυση flyerBilind time action/ Performing with the unknown still from live performance at MAC, Belfast October 2021Bilind time action/ Performing with the unknown still from live performance at MAC, Belfast October 2021Bilind time action/ Performing with the unknown still from live performance at MAC, Belfast October 2021
Blind time action/ Ιππόλυση is a durational performance with unknown objects while being blind folded. The performer explores the relationship between her bodily presence with the space and the objects in her proximity while being blindfolded. The objects could be everyday objects and/or raw material that are donated to her by the audience.
Blind time action/ Ιππόλυση is a response to the work of Robert Morris ‘Blind time drawings’ (1990). Morris has been drawing while being blindfolded. The aim is to explore a. is the obstruction of our vision enabling our presence in a deeper psychophysical sense? b. how is my time perception informed and transformed when I perform blindfolded and how is my audience’s time perception influenced by my temporal experience? c. in what extent our presence is controlled by the gaze of the others? d. what is revealed when I perform while being blindfolded?
Bilind time action/ Ιππόλυση still from live performance at 1927 Artspace, June 2021
Re-discovering silence (2016) is a series of black and white ‘homemade’ photographs around the topic of stillness and intimacy in our households. Poetics/ politics of everyday life deals with the hidden poetics and aesthetic qualities of everyday often disregarded objects that surround us.
This work would like to offer a chance of retrospection, reflection and action: it calls for the activation and deepening of our inner gaze. Re-discovering silence is fascinated by interiors of houses bare of human life with an intense and dramatic lighting. I reckon that the current ecological crisis calls for our attention to the fact that human beings do not stand at the center of a passive universe: humans are not superior than other species.
Inside-out (2015) site specific installation in the old tin factory, Prespes (GR), two cut T-shirts (one burnt), open entrance door of factoryInside-out (2015) site specific installation in the old tin factory, Prespes (GR), two cut T-shirts (one burnt), open entrance door of factoryInside-out (2015) site specific installation in the old tin factory, Prespes (GR), two cut T-shirts (one burnt), open entrance door of factoryInside-out (2015) site specific installation in the old tin factory, Prespes (GR), two cut T-shirts (one burnt), open entrance door of factory
Inside-out (2015) was a site-specific installation created during Prespes residency organized by Fine arts Academy, Florina, Greece
The space encloses and penetrates the material. The space allows the time to penetrate the material and produce/ mοuld new forms. During the encounter between time and space, gradually, matter’s limits are catalyzed thus dynamics is created, hence change comes into play before our eyes: the transition of space-time is visible in the materials.
Forms vary, get shaped, re -structured: garments’ fibbers blend with rust. The sculptor is space-time. I invite the time to impact on materials. I hasten its effect by opening a hole in the garment. My attempt is to illustrate artistically and visualize both concepts (space + time).
The two cut T-shirts (body, human presence or absence, meaning lived experience, in other words life) commune. They are appositely disposed opposite one another in a communicating relationship.
Among them “flows” space.
Being connected at a distance, they are a living system, a kind of contemporary eco-habitat.
Handle with care/ Soup (2020) Pic from sound art performance , Sounding out performance art festival, Glassworks, DerryHandle with care/ Soup (2020) Pic from sound art performance , Sounding out performance art festival, Glassworks, Derry
‘Handle with care/ Soup’ was performed during Sounding out festival of performance art organized by Northern Lights Project in Derry, Northern Ireland. During the performance, the audience assisted the performer in her preparation of a soup. Microphones and amplifiers offered a deeper sensation of the sounds emerging from the cooking process.
Handle with care (2) Pic from participatory performative experiment , BIFPA, Ulster UniversityHandle with care (2) Pic from participatory performative experiment , BIFPA, Ulster UniversityHandle with care (2) Pic from participatory performative experiment , BIFPA, Ulster University
‘Handle with care’ (2) was performed during BIFPA 2020 (curated by Brian Connolly) in Ulster University , Belfast. ‘Handle with care’ is a performative experiment upon the cooking process of pan cakes. I am interested to the creation of sound and its experimental and ontological aspects. The work aims to challenge the politics of our everyday life, our handling of objects and tools, the process-based nature of food and cooking as creative event. The aim is to create a synergistic performative experience among participants that will activate their interactivity, sensitivity and multi-sensory com-presence.
Participants were blindfolded prior entering the performance space so that their sense of hearing and touch was heightened. Participants were asked to be part of a chain of cooking process. At the end pancakes are served and shared among each other. Handle with care (2) would like to be understood in reference to Relational Aesthetics Theory (N. Bourriaud) as a means of reinventing socially constructed boundaries.
No title (2012), Installation with clothing hanger, plastic basin, clips, plastic bag, tape and white canvasNo title (2012), Installation (detail) clothing hanger, plastic basin, clips, plastic bag, tape and white canvasNo title (2012), Installation (detail) clothing hanger, plastic basin, clips, plastic bag, tape and white canvasRandom (2015) Home installation, two vases with flowers, a table, a window, a half opened door, daylightRandom (2015) Home installation, two vases with flowers, a table, a window with view to another window, a wall painting, daylight
wishes to inquire on the embodiment of democracy. My approach is based on concepts of post dance and choreopolitics (Lepecki). The artistic research methodology aims to the deepening of the concept and structure of Arquitecturas Biologicas (Lygia Clark). LUNA PARK: what is democracy? is a research project that challenges the perception and embodiment of the in-betweeness (Watsuji Tetsuro) here seen as the ‘tension’ among the individual and the social self. Ultimately, ‘LUNA PARK: what is democracy?’ would like to offer an alternative on current forms of biopolitics as an alternative means of resistance to current politics of time and space.
