Site Specific Art Workshop
City as landscape body as subject: Athens
City as landscape body as subject: Athens
12-15 January 2019
With Eliza Soroga and Guest Tutor Anastasia Karandinou
Participants - Creators:
Ismini Georgiadou, Eftychia Kondyli, Nelly Kritikopoulou, Leto Martinou-Kyritsi, Kleanthis Pagkalos, Renata Tsioulou
Supported by 9th ATHENS VIDEO DANCE PROJECT Annual Videodance Festival
in collaboration with the Theater of Athens School of Fine Arts.
A 4-day Site-Specific workshop incorporating the reality of the chosen site within Athens’s rich urban landscape. We worked on image composition methodologies challenging the body as a response to the chosen site. Referencing ‘Expanding Theatre’ is the idea that the whole world can be seen as a stage -Theatrum Mundi- and the passersby as performers in their everyday life where boarders between performance and real life are blurred.
We were introduced the compositional approach ‘Site-Specific Outdoor’ where the space constitutes the prima material of the work and the concept derives from an interactive dialogue with the site, allowing it to form its content, research and evolution.
The outcome produced by each group is a set of still motions capturing a specific and particular moment of a body within the Athenian cityscape. A collection of these stills was exhibited in the form of a video slide show during the 3day Athens Video Dance Project 2019 (18,19 & 20 January 2019) hosted by the Athens School of Fine Arts, shown in the theatre space of the Athens School of Fine Arts; one of the central venues of the festival.
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